[From the Sydney Papers.] Wife Murder, Suicide, and Fire at Coonamble
COONAMBLE, Wednesday.—A shocking tragedy occurred here to-day. A hotelkeeper named Charles Barker shot his wife dead, then reloaded his gun and shot…
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Courts & crime, 1880
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Police Court
AT the Police Court, on Saturday, Edward Cotter, aged twenty-four, a seaman, pleaded guilty to being a deserter from the New South Wales Permanent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, 6Th December, 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. G. Tully, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Several ordinary offenders under this heading were disposed of with the usual ultimatum. Robert Murphy, an old offender, was fined 10s., in…
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DURING Monday night, or early on Tuesday morning, a daring burglary was perpetrated on the promises of Mr. Pearson, pawnbroker, jeweller, etc., in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, December 7Th, 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Captain O'Sullivan, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Several offenders under this heading wore dealt with, INDENCENT BATHING.—George May, aged 10, arrested by w.p. constable Mandy,…
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MR. BUCHANAN P.M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P., adjudicated at the Police Court yesterday. The business sheet was small. Arthur Henry Stapstead,…
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INFORMATION from Tyro, the scene of the recent somnambulistic murder, is that over one hundred people assembled at the coroner's inquest and…
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LONDON, December 9.—Disaffection continues to spread in Ireland. Yesterday, at Cookstown, county Tyrone, a murder was committed which is directly…
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DENILIQUIN, Thursday.—On Tuesday the body of a child, two or three days' old, was found on the banks of the River Edwards by two boys, about one mile and a half from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, Dec. 10, 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Dr. Morgan, J.P.)
LARCENY.—Thomas Brown and John Brennan, in custody, under committal on two other charges of robbery, were charged with having stolen two hog-skin saddles,…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—A woman named Lilly was savagely attacked by a man named Patrick Bendonley on Thursday morning last at Redesdale. He inflicted…
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The following cases were disposed of at the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. G. Tully, J.P.:—Edward Platton, drunk at Burwood,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—In the Supreme Court to-day, the Rev. Peter Campbell v. Sydney Punch, an action for libel, a verdict was given for plaintiff, damages one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, 14Th Dec., 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., Captain O'Sullivan, J.P., and Dr. Morgan, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Two offenders were dealt with. BREACH OF BY-LAWS. Robert Gordon pleaded guilty to having driven a cart…
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LONDON, December 15.—The man Herbert, who went from Melbourne to receive a legacy, and who murdered his wife's sister, has been hanged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, 16Th December, 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. G. Tully. J.P.)
LARCENY.—John Squires, on bail, was charged with having stolen about two toes of scrap iron from Russell's foundry, Wickham, value about £10, on the 14th…
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AT the Police Court, yesterday, John Robinson, charged with stealing a meerschaum pipe case, containing a pipe and two cigar holders, value £2 10s; also,…
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THE following particulars of the murder of Mrs. Messenger by William Herbert, late of Footscray, Victoria (who has been convicted and hanged), are given by the…
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AT the usual hearing of the Small Debts Court yesterday, there were but three or four cases set down for hearing, mostly of no public interest whatever. In a case…
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LONDON, December 18.—Two ritualistic clergymen, under imprisonment for contempt of Court, have appealed to the Privy Council, pending which they have…
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