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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1857

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Police Report. Week ending 2nd January, 1857. ASSAULT

The Border Post · Saturday 3 January 1857 · page 2

John Brien was charged with assaulting Sarah Frances Lee. This case had been remanded from a previous day, and our readers will remember that plaintiff swore that…

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Small Debt’s Court

The Border Post · Saturday 10 January 1857 · page 2

John Hennessey claimed £10 for three weeks’ wages. Verdict for plaintiff, 18s 3d. The same complainant also claimed £10 of the above defendant for travelling expenses, but…

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Police Report. Week ending 10th January, 1857

The Border Post · Saturday 10 January 1857 · page 2

DRUNKARDS. —Thomas Brien pleaded guilty to drunkenness, and was discharged with a caution. ABSENTING FROM SERVICE.—Thomas…

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POLICE. Week ending 16th January, 1867

The Border Post · Saturday 17 January 1857 · page 2

ASSAULT.—Robert Morton appeared on Monday to answer a complaint made by Donald McKay. Complainant not wishing to press the charge, a fine of one shilling was…

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Deliberate Murder at Green Gully. (From the Mount Alexander Mail.)

The Border Post · Saturday 24 January 1857 · page 1

The usually quiet district of Castle[?] was on Wednesday morning last, startled from its mated quietude by a rumour, which turned out to be too tree, that a cool…

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Horse Stealing

The Border Post · Saturday 31 January 1857 · page 1

The following is as abstract of a measure for the Prevention of Horsestealing, to be submitted to the Victorian Legislature :— The Governor in Council will appoint a…

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Police Report. Work ending 30th January, 1857. DRUNKARDS

The Border Post · Saturday 31 January 1857 · page 2

Thomas Word and Patrick M’Cabe were admonished and discharged ; Charles Kellett was fined 6s; Thos. Hamilton was fined £2 WAGES…

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Police Report. Work ending, February 6th, Using, Indecent Language

The Border Post · Saturday 7 February 1857 · page 2

Robert Thomas plended; guilty to this offence, and was fined £2. Assault. Hector Mackenzie was charged with…

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Police Report. Week ending 13th February, DRUNKENNESS

The Border Post · Saturday 14 February 1857 · page 2

Patrick Dwyer pleaded guilty to this offence, and was discharged with a caution. ASSAULT. John Anderson was charged with…

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Dreadful Attempt at Murder and [?]

The Border Post · Saturday 28 February 1857 · page 2

Considerable sensation was created in Sandhurst yesterday afternoon, by a report that a horrible murder had been perpetrated on the flat opposite View Point, and that the…

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Police Report. Week ending 27th February, Insulting Language

The Border Post · Saturday 28 February 1857 · page 2

Jamas Denison was charged with using improper language to John More, and pleading guilty, was discharged with a caution. Threatening Language,…

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The Murder of a Railway Cashier Near Dublin

The Border Post · Saturday 7 March 1857 · page 5

A most painful sensation was created in Dublin on Friday, the 14th Nov[?] by the discovery of a very horrible and mysterious circumstance at the…

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Police Report. Week ending 6th March. DRUNKRNS[?]

The Border Post · Saturday 7 March 1857 · page 3

James Bennett was fined £1 for this offence, and an additional £5 for violently resisting the police whilst being conveyed to the lock-up. Elizabeth…

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Court of Requests. F. M’Eachern v. G. Stone

The Border Post · Saturday 7 March 1857 · page 3

A claim of £9 for a saddle and the stabling of two horses. Settled. E. Cospersonn v. C. Hopgood. Claim of £10 for surgical attendance…

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Police Report. Week ending 27th March, 1857. ASSAULT

The Border Post · Saturday 21 March 1857 · page 2

John Shaw was summoned by Henry Elmes Campbell to answer a charge of this of this nature. Plaintiff swore in his information that defendant entered his office in…

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[?][?]Court [?]

The Border Post · Saturday 4 April 1857 · page 1

The Sittings commenced on the 23rd before his [?] Mr. Justices Dickinson, The Solicitor-General prosecuted an behalf of the Crown, and barristers [?] Blake, [?]…

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Police Report. Week cading [?] April. 1857. DRUNKENNESS

The Border Post · Saturday 4 April 1857 · page 3

David [?] was discharged with a [?]. John Carroll was fine £1, and James [?] was fined £3. CATTLE STEALING…

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Police Report. Week ending 11th April, 1867. Cattle Starling

The Border Post · Saturday 11 April 1857 · page 2

James [?]ney was brought up on remand, and the evidence for the defence was gone into. Thomas Dolan nephew to the prisoner,…

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Police Report. Week ending April 17th, 1917, Suspicion of Murder

The Border Post · Saturday 18 April 1857 · page 2

Walter Harvey was brought up on suspicion of being one Walter Herbert, charged with murder, but there being no evidence against him, he was discharged…

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Frightful Murder at Ballarat

The Border Post · Saturday 25 April 1857 · page 3

In yesterday’s issue we merely glanced at the fact of a frightful murder having been committed at a locality somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Durham…

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