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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1859

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Deniliquin Police Court Monday, August 29. [Before the Police Magistrate,] the Seizure of the “Lady Augusta,” the Queen V. Robertson. Same V Amos

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 1 September 1859 · page 3

IN these; matters, Mr. Cutten, jun., in the absence of his father, applied to his Worship to accept certain parties, whom he named, as sureties to enter into the against the decision of the Moama Bench…

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Albury Police Court

The Border Post · Saturday 10 September 1859 · page 3

Before Heyward Atkins. Esq., P.M. DAVID BARMAN PALMER appeared on remand, from Wednesday last to answer to a charge of falling to comply with the impounding Act, in…

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Local. Albury Police Court. Saturday, September 10th. Before Heyward Atkins, Esq., P. M.

The Border Post · Wednesday 14 September 1859 · page 2

FREDERICK HEFFERNAN was charged on suspicion of being one George Eskins, a person charged with the murder of his wife Eliza Eskins, at Apollo Bay. The appearance…

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Deniliquin Police Court Friday September 9.[Before the Police Magistrate.] Cattle Stealing

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 15 September 1859 · page 2

A man named Sims, alias Black Sims, and one James Keigheran, were brought up on a charge of cattle-stealing. Mr. Daniel O’Sullivan, settler, of the Lachlan,…

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Albury Police Court. Wednesday, Sept. 14th. Before Heyward Atkins, Esq., P. M.

The Border Post · Saturday 17 September 1859 · page 2

Frederick Johnson, charged with severely kicking John Neuman at Corrowa, was ordered for trial for manslaughter, at the next Court of Quarter Sessions…

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Moama. Police Court. [Before Messrs. J. Kelly, Esq., P.M., and R. M. Hughes, J.P.]

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 22 September 1859 · page 2

Mr. Hugh Morgan Levinge, Clerk of Petty Sessions, Echuca, was charged by Mr. J. R. Sabine, of this town, with asaulting him at Moama, on the 5th instant…

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Colonial. Atrocious Murder of Two Men, and Attempt to Burn the Bodies

The Border Post · Wednesday 12 October 1859 · page 3

THE following particulars of the murder of two men and attempt to destroy their bodies by the base been communicated to us by a person who on Tuesday last met W. D…

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Deniliquin Police Court Friday, October 14. (Before T. C. Morison, Esq., J.p.] Stealing a Cheque

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 20 October 1859 · page 3

William Dixon was charged with having, on the previous night, stolen a cheque for £15 from a person named Williams. Constable John McGrath stated, that he…

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The Police

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 20 October 1859 · page 2

Our legislators ought to travel A pleasant trip to the | sister, colony, in the recess, would add to their knowledge, and the information thus gained, if properly applied; would decidedly…

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Local. Police COURT.(Before Heyward Atkins, Esq., P.M.)

The Border Post · Saturday 22 October 1859 · page 2

On Wednesday, William Chapman Herbert was charged with wilfully destroying a fence belonging to John Drew Atkin. Pierce William Drew, superintendent to…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Friday, October 21. [Before T. C. Morison, Esq., J.p.] the Bank Robbery

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 27 October 1859 · page 3

Edward Geaghan and William Henry Drew, sawyers, were brought up in custody, on suspicion of being principals i in the recent robbery at the Bank of New South Wales, Deniliquin…

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Murder

The Border Post · Wednesday 2 November 1859 · page 2

John Kelly was, on Friday week, charged at the Melbourne Criminal Sessions with the wilful murder of a man, name unknown. The evidence being contradictory and…

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A Gaol Wanted

The Border Post · Wednesday 2 November 1859 · page 2

Really there seems no end to the local wants of Albury. All past Governments have to sadly neglected us, that there is a heavy arrear to fetch up. Most townships…

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The Bank Robbery. Deniliquin Police Court, Friday, October 28, 1859. [Before the Police Magistrate, and Messrs. John Phillips, R. S. G. Macdonald, T. C. Morison, Henry Shiell, and R. M. Hughes, J.P.]

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 3 November 1859 · page 3

William Lee, William Henry Drew, John Vaughan, and Edward Gegan were charged with having, on the 15th October instant, being then armed with guns and pistols, robbed the Bank of New South…

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Albury Court of Quarter Sessions

The Border Post · Saturday 5 November 1859 · page 2

On Monday we may expect His Honor Judge Callaghan, Mr. Templeton, the Crown Prosecutor, and Mr. Nathan, the Clerk of the Peace. Mr Allman is the only professional gentleman we…

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Supreme Court, Sydney. Tuesday, November 1. SAYLIER v. HORSLEY

The Border Post · Wednesday 9 November 1859 · page 2

This was an application by role [?] for a quo [?] the object being to set aside the election of the respondent as an alderman for the municipality of Albury…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Monday, November 7, 1859. (Before J. Kelly, Esq., P.M.; T. C. Morison, Esq., J.P., and G. Peppin, Esq., J.P.)

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 10 November 1859 · page 3

Two or three insignificant cases were called on, but neither complainants nor defendants answering to their names, the cases were accordingly struck out…

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Atrocious Condition of the Albury Gaol

The Border Post · Saturday 12 November 1859 · page 1

DURING the sitting of the Court on Wednesday and Thursday, His Honor Judge Callaghan felt called upon to make some very strong remarks in reference to the state of the…

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Albury Quarter Sessions. Wednesday, November 9, 1829. (Before His Honor Judge Callaghan.) Stealing From the Person

The Border Post · Saturday 12 November 1859 · page 1

Daniel Fitzgerald was indicted for stealing, on the 8th September, at Moulamein, one purse, one order for £1, one order for £1 5s., a sum of twelve shillings in silver, and a receipt…

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Colonial. Horrid Murder by a Wife

The Border Post · Wednesday 16 November 1859 · page 3

We briefly stated in our last that information had been given to the police stationed at Binda, that a settler named Thomas Monks, about 60 years of age, residing at Phil’s river…

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