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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1886

161 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 9

A Woman Charged with Drunkenness Four Hundred Times

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1886 · page 5

A WOMAN named Annie Parker, aged 35, has been over four hundred times charged before the magistrates at Greenwich police court with drunkenness, hut never with felony, and had…

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The Murder of Slacks in the Ear North

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1886 · page 3

The Government Resident in the Northern Territory has supplied a lenghly report to the board of inquiry into he Daley River murder case, denying the accusations made against him of encouraging…

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Terrible Murder in Paris

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 March 1886 · page 3

The Paris correspondent of a London paper says :--" Another crime has just been brought to light in Paris, but its perpetrators are still at liberty. In this case the victim was a woman…

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Flogging at Brisbane Gaol

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1886 · page 4

JAMES Carmichael, sentenced with two others to imprisonment and flogging for garroting in Edwardstreet some months ago received his…

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LOCAL & General News. Police Court, Tuesday, March 9. (Before the P.M.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1886 · page 4

INSPECTOR of Nuisances v. Robert Graham. Defendant was charged with casting night soil near a street withiin the borough. It appeared from the evidence…

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Criminal Court —March 3. (Before Judge Windever.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1886 · page 2

WILLIAM george Binns, a middle-aged man, was arraigned upon the charge of 'having, on the 31st December, 1885, at Kangaroo /Valley, maliciously set fire to a…

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Barbarous Murder

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 March 1886 · page 3

A TRIAL for murder, accompanied by circumstances of unsurpassed horror and barbarity, has recently been decided by the sentence of two principal criminals, a father and a son, to death;…

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Police Court, Saturday, March 13. (Before the P.M.) Larceny

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 March 1886 · page 2

JAMES Collins was charged with stealing a tone pound Joint Stock Bank note from the person of Timothy Ryan, on the 12th instant…

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A Strange Story of Murder and Suicide

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 March 1886 · page 3

A MAN named Frangois Paul has been condemned at the Assize Court, Finisterre, Paris, to perpetual imprisonment for having incited his young wife to commit suicide, and…

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LOCAL & Genneral News. Police Court.—mondya, March 22. (Befere the P.M.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 March 1886 · page 2

A DRUNKAND was fined 5s., in default, 24 hours in gaol. Aotual Bopddy Harm. John Henry Williams was charged…

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Railway Murder in Italy

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1886 · page 3

A HORRIBLE railway murder, similar in its details to that of M. Bareme-- with the exception that the victim was not a person occupying any prominent position, and that the murderer…

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LOCAL & General News. Police Court.—march 26. (Before the P.M., Dr. Reid, and A. J. Cavanagh.) Unsound Mind

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1886 · page 2

Jake Ward, on remand, charged with being of unsound mind, was discharged from custody, being pronounced by Dr. Murray fit to be at laige…

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Mutiny and Murder on the High Seas. Terrible Scenes-- Five Deaths

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1886 · page 3

BY the arrival on Wednesday of the Union Company's Royal mail steamer German at Southampton, a terrible tale of mutiny and murder on the high seas has reached this country, five…

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Police Court.—march 30. (Before Messrs. John Moore and Badham.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1886 · page 8

H. N. BAYLY, for drunkenness, was ordered to pay a fine of 20s., or go to gaol for a week. Another drunkard was fined 10s…

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WALCHA & District. Walcha, Wednesday. Police Court.—March 30. (Before the P.M.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1886 · page 8

Williams v. Slay. — Insulting words. Fined £2, costs of Court 6s. 8d., and witnesses' expenses, 16s. Hamilton v. Hamilton.—Assault. Fined…

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Tamworth Police Court. Saturday, March 27. (Before Mr. J. L. King, J.P.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1886 · page 8

James Frost, on remand, was charged with robbing the Manilla mail, on the 23rd insh William Thomas Langworthy deposed:…

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The South Australian Bank Failure. Crooks and Wilson Sentenced

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 April 1886 · page 3

ALEX. Crooks, ex manager, and Mackenzie Wilson, ex accountant of the Commercial Bank of youth Australia, were brought up at the Adelaide Supreme Court on Wednesday. The charge…

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Armidale Circuit Court Monday, April 12. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice [?])

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 April 1886 · page 2

MR. H. E. Cohen was present [?] Prosecutor, and there were [?] in Court Me[?] Gorden and [?] [?] Attempted suicide…

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Glen Innes Laud Court. WEDNESDAY. (Before Messrs. S. Blythe, Chairman, G. Martin, P.M., and J. Martin, J.P.)

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 April 1886 · page 2

RICHARD HOOPER, conditional purchase and lease; granted. Joseph Bier, conditional purchase; granted. Thomas Jones, conditional lease; granted…

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Armidale Circuit Court

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 April 1886 · page 2

AT the Circuit Court held in Armidale on Monday last (before Mr. Justice Windeyer), the following cases were tried :-- LARCENY…

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