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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1886

438 stories in Murray's papers · page 16 of 22

Sydney Divorce Court. Wednesday, August 25. SPLATT V. SPLATT

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 September 1886 · page 25

This was a suit brought by Susan L. Slatt against her husband, Edmund Bailey Splatt, for dissolution of their marriage, owing to adultery and cruelty on the part of the respondent…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Saturday, August 8. (Before the Police Magistrate)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 September 1886 · page 2

Conrad Gobee was charged with [?] was fined 5s or 24 hours. TUESDAY, AUGUST 31. (Before the Police Magistrate)…

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Deniliquin Small Debts Court Wednesday, September 1. (Before the Police Magistrate )

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 September 1886 · page 2

John [?] v. Robert [?] commission. The Court held, [?] and the case was struck out. [?] for the plaintiff and Mr Edwards for [?]…

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Chiltern Police Court. Wednesday, Sept. 8. (Before Messrs Gilmour, Strickland and Perry J.P's.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 September 1886 · page 4

Police v. Jane Duffy-- Drunk on her licensed promises known as the Telegraph Hotel, Mr. Hodgson appeared for the defendant who pleaded guilty and was…

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Howlong Police Court. Thursday, September 2. (Before Messrs. Keightley, P.M., and Boyle. J.P.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 September 1886 · page 23

Police v. G. P. Smith : Breach of Impounding Act. Fined 40s. Parnaby v. Parnaby : Maintenance. Ordered to pay 6[?]. per week for 12 months from…

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Horrible Murder. a Wife’s Head Smashed In

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 September 1886 · page 25

What appears to have been a most barbarous case of wife-murder was perpetrated in Hobart, Tasmania, on the 25th ult. It seems that a young man named Welch Oakes left his home…

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Disastrous Earthquake on the American Coast. Charleston Nearly Destroyed. Serious Loss of Life. Sufferings of the Inhabitants. Terrible Scenes in Richmond Gaol. Superstitious Terror of the Negroes. [By Submarine Cable.] New York, September 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 September 1886 · page 18

At an early hour yesterday evening a very violent shock of earthquake was felt along the whole of the United States seaboard, from Alabama to New York. The shock was…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Monday, September 6.(Before the Police Magistrate)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 September 1886 · page 2

Daniel McKay was charged with drunke[?] and let off with a caution. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 7. (Before the Police Magistrate)…

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Tallangatta Police Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 September 1886 · page 37

At the police court on Tuesday, before Messrs. A. Pa ton, J. Hanson, and W. Carkeek, J’s p., J. Kendal and J. Strahan were charged with having stolen meat in their possession. Constable…

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Corowa Police Court. Tuesday, September 14, 1886. (Before the Acting P.M.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 September 1886 · page 3

James Wilson, charged with being drunk and disorderly, was discharged on the first, and fined 10s., in default 24 hours' imprisonment, on the second…

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Hamlet Before the Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 September 1886 · page 2

"Well, Hamlet Shaksp[?]re," said Justice Welds at Jefferson M[?]ket New York, addressing the fantastic prisoner at the box, who were a classic black mantle and a cava[?]…

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Outrage by the Blacks in North Australia. Attack on a Cutter and Murder of the Captain

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 September 1886 · page 15

A telegram from Normanton, Queensland, states that the cutter Eleanor arrived there on Monday, bringing news of an outrage comm[?] by the blacks on the cutter Smuggler,…

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Divorce Court, Sydney. Monday, September 6. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Windeyer.) SPLATT V. SPLATT

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 September 1886 · page 26

The. bearing of this suit, in which Susan Leah Splatt was petitioner for dissolution of her marriage with Edmund Bayley Splat[?] took place on August 25. Mr. Ralston,…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Tuesday, September, 14. Before Mr James Wa[?] J.P.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 September 1886 · page 2

James Wilson was charged with drunkenness. The [?] dismissed. John Scott was charged with drunkenness, and let off with [?]…

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Stealing a Watch

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 21 September 1886 · page 2

At the Hay Police Court to day, before Mr Pearce, P.M., Peter Brown was charged with the larceny of a watch and chain, of the value of £5, from the person of Thomas Bowen, at Dillon's Hotel. Sub-Inspector…

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Chiltern Police Court. Thursday, Sept. 16,1886

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 September 1886 · page 3

E. A. CUMMING v. J. Doolan. Mr. Hodgson applied for an extension of the summons. Extension granted to the 15th October…

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A Horrible Murder

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 September 1886 · page 10

Every connoisseur of murders remembers how the man Fish cut up a small child into many pieces and distributed them far and wide. The trunk was too big for…

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Singular Case of Child Murder

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 September 1886 · page 26

At the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, on Monday, Jeremiah O’Sullivan was convicted of the murder of his infant child Ursula Margaret O’Sullivan, on January 28th, at…

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Licensing Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 September 1886 · page 3

G. De Mamiel application for transfer. No objections. Granted. E. Glasgow, transfer of license of the Vine Hotel to J. Simpson…

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The Elizabeth-st. Murder. Melbourne

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 September 1886 · page 2

The body of the murdered woman, Mrs. Williams, has been taken from the hospital by her friends, but they left the murderer's corpse for his own…

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