A Strange Murder
IN the history of modern crime, the Newtown Stewart murder will occupy a prominent place. The victim was a banker living in a country town in the North of Ireland…
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Courts & crime, 1872
27 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 2
The Murder of Bishop Patteson and the Slave Trade
THE Rev. F. Langham, a Wesleyan missionary, writes to the Fiji Times,— “ Will you kindly publish, the fallowing particulars, which I received from a gentleman planter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shocking Murder at Mary borough Victoria. (From the Mary borough Advertiser, Oct . 9.)
A MURDER, accompanied with brutal atrocity, was committed at the Alma, a township some few miles from Maryborough at a late hour on Monday night . The news of the tragedy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bench of Magistrates. Three, Tuesday, October 22, 1872 BEFORE Messrs . BROAD and CORNISH —Justices. POLICE v. LAUGHLAN
The defendant is the maker of a coaster, and was charged with throwing ballast into the river near Jones’ Island in the month of September last. The defendant pleaded guilty and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bench of Magistrates. Wingham, Tuesday, November 5, 1872. (BEFORE Messrs. JOHNSTON and Cornish.) Police v. MUNROFF
FOR throwing ballast into the river. The defendant failed to appear. Constable Collins said M[?]nroff was the master of a coaster called the May, and that when he served the summons upon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Horrible Murder in the Lachlan District. (From a Correspondent of the Evening News.)
THE most exciting item of news here is the [?] murder, perpetrated by some persons on Saturday, the 28th October, at [?] the Lachlan River about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Painful Story of the Islington Murder. a Woman Sentenced to Death
THE woman, Lydia Venables, who murdered her daughter, aged three years, at Islington, on Saturday week, wa[?] tried at the Old Bailey on Wednesday. The story…
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