District Court
IT may be well to remind litigants that the next District Court will be held at Newcastle on Monday, the 12th June. The last day for issuing plaints will be Tuesday, 30th…
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Courts & crime, 1882
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Police Court
FOUR solitary drunkards were the only prisoners dealt with at the Police Court on Saturday morning. These received their just awards in the customary manner…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., disposed of the Police Court business yesterday. Five drunkards were either fined or released, according to the time of their arrest. Thomas Philips,…
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LATE on Sunday night, or early on Monday morning, an attempt was. made. to burglariously outer the premises of Mr. Featherstone, draper, Hunter-street, by…
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TO-DAY is the last day for issuing plaints for hearing at the next District Court, to be held on Monday, June 12th. Litigants would do well to bear this in mind…
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THERE was not much business set down for hearing at the police court yesterday. In a case Mary Purtell v. Martin Purtell, for child desertion, defendant was ordered to…
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YESTERDAY, at the Police Court, Edward Hinton, in custody on committal for attempted capital offence, was brought up on a charge of having stolen a swag and…
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YESTERDAY, at the Police Court, Michael Lyons, seaman, drunk and disorderly, was fined 10s, or forty-eight hours. William Aitken, a cook, for using profane language,…
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THE Brisbane Commissioner of Police has received the following telegram, giving further particulars of the assault on two children which occured at Rockhampton:—…
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MR. MAIR, P.M. adjudicated at the Police Court yesterday. A seaman, named Joseph Donnelly, was dealt with for being drunk and using obscene language, and several…
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THE following cases were disposed of at the Licensing Court, held on Thursday, before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Dr. Morgan, J.P.:—Edgar W. Ashby, of the Crystal Palace…
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THIS Court was held in the Council Chambers on Thursday evening, the Mayor and several of the aldermen being present. There were eleven cases of appeal, in nine…
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THE only case before the local bench on Saturday was that of one drunkard, who was dealt with as customary…
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YESTERDAY , at the Police Court, James Phillips, on remand from the 29th ulto., charged on suspicion of being of unsound mind, was discharged. Three drunkards…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A man named Dray has murdered his mate, Thomas Roberts, by stabbing him in the heart with a butcher's knife, at Tumberumba, near…
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[?]ing attempt to assassinate a lady has just been reported to the constabulary in Ennerick. It resembles in its circumstances, though not in its…
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SIX men have been arrested by the police near the scene of the recent murder of Mrs. Smythe, on suspicion of being implicated in the Crime. TWO…
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YESTERDAY, at the Police Court, Robert Sadd, James Taylor, Phillip Twist, Charles Rees, Edward Hayes, Thomas Driscoll, and George Holsten, seamen, were, each…
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THE Police Court business sheets were light yesterday. George Olsen, seaman, for desertion on from the British barque Remonstrant, was sent to the cells for forty-eight…
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YESTERDAY evening Mr. Holt, bookseller of Hunter-street, captured a delinquent in his bedroom apparently intent upon a burglary, and promptly handed him over…
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