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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime
27 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
We learn from a gentleman resident at Camden that a frightful murder followed by tho further crime of suicide, was committed at that place on Friday. From what we can gather it appears…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the Police Office, Gulgong, on Wednesday, February 21, Mary Anne Young, on remand from the previous day, was brought up charged with the murder of Edward Jacob…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Yass Police Court, on the 13th instant. before Mr. Yates, George Exworth, a lad about fourteen years of ago, was charged with the murder, by drowning, of Matthew…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ABOUT 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon sergeant Dawson and constables Abercrombie and Meader, while (in consequence of certain information that had been received by them) dragging the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FOR being drunk and using obscene language. The defendant, who is a married woman, has been drinking freely for some time past. She was sentenced to a week’s confinement in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CLAIM for £118 on account of sugar-cane sold and delivered. Struck out in consequence of the death of the defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Court was opened at half-past ten, when most of the parties were present. The number of spectators was small. MOOEE [?] . SMITH…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Alexandria arrived at Adelaide on Saturday last. The English news appeared in Monday’s Herald, and was brought ,to [?] by the Fire King on Wednesday. Among the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A FEW days ago Richard Porter, a miner, aged fifty-three, was charged before the magistrates at Bliston, near Wolverhampton, with the wilful murder of William Hughes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FULL details have been received of the recent shocking incident in Cuba, the shooting of eight youths, medical students, on a charge which seems to have been almost or quite…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nor McPherson’s hero of that name, bat Thomas Campbell’s Fingal—or rather, he who was Thomas Campbell, Fingal was a dog; an excellent one ; professionally the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following anecdote exhibits, a late Emperor of Russia in a new character, as well as records one of the most happy escapes from an awkward position that ever was effected…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN inquest was commenced on Sunday, 5th instant, at 11 a.m., at Lehman’s Hotel. Stony creek, by the corone[?] and a jury of twelve, [?]onching the death of John Pe[?]ey, there [?]ying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE whaling barque Onward, owned by Messrs. Barron and Austin, of Sydney, arrived to-day from a whaling voyage extending over nine months. In a commercial…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY morning, within the precincts of the gaol, the last dread sentence of the law was carried out upon the person of John Conn, who was, at the last Assizes, convicted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE man arrested last Sunday, between Carngham and Linton, on suspicion of being Dermody, seems (the Ballarat Courier says,) to have taken “quite a rise” out of the police and people of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY afternoon, his Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson and Captain Beauchamp St. John, his Excellency’s Aide-de-camp, visited the gaol at Darlinghurst. His…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OUR correspondent [?] that the police are engaged in unravelling the particulars of what appears to have been a dis[?]lical murder and the suspected perpetrator a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN commenting upon the report of the Inspector General of Police lately presented to Parliament, the Melbourne Leader obser[?]:— With a population of 520,000 in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THIS was a dispute about the division of the proceeds of a crop grown upon shares—the plaintiff complaining that he had not received his part of the proceeds…
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