The Woolloomooloo Horror. Activity of the Police
SYDNEY, Saturday.—The police are taking the most active steps to get further evidence with regard to the atr[?]cious outrage revealed in the proceedings before the…
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Courts & crime, 1883
290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 15
Pekin Police Arrangements
IT might readily be supposed by anyone surveying the teeming population in the main streets that amidst such a people disorders must be rife, but the fact is that…
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THE following particulars of the murder of a teamster at Lawson's Springs on the 26th August were telegraphed (says the S.A. Register) to the Comissioner of…
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BATHURST, Tuesday.—On Saturday night a murderous attack was made by an old shepherd named John Brown, on a man named Ewer, known as "Ned the Pieman."…
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CAPE TOWN, Monday.—The Zulu chiefs, Nampoer and Mapock, who have been captured by the Boers for rendering assistance to Cetewayo, have been sentenced to death…
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A PUBLIC meeting (called by the Borough Council, at the request of the Citizens' Committee, Sydney, formed to bring about an amendment of the libel law, and of the practice of contempt of court) was…
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THE trimvirate of magistrates at the Police Court yesterday, consisted of Messrs. Mair P.M., W. K. Lochhead and George Donald, J.'sP. After the customary bunch of drunkards had been dealt with,…
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MR. MAIR P.M., and Mr. Joseph Creer, J.P., sat on the local Police Court bench yesterday. A case Louis Narboursty v. Captain Lindfors, of the barque Lochnaw, for alleged breach of agreement, was…
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LONDON, Friday.—At the trial of O'Donnell, for murdering James Carey, the Dublin informer, it has been finally elicited that he was sect out specially to commit…
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LONDON, Friday.—Mr. Crotty, a landholder in Mayo, has been found murdered near his house…
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LONDON, Sunday. O'Donnell has been committed for trial for the murder of Carey, the informer…
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A PUBLIC meeting, convened by his Worship the Mayor of Hamilton (Mr. W. H. Manucil) at the request of the central committee, Sydney, was held in the Hamilton…
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ON Tuesday, shortly after midnight, a sensational attempt at murder occurred in the Hokitiki Hotel Emerald Hill, Melbourne. A man named Walter Stewart, boiler-maker, who has been living apart from…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., with Messrs. S. Chapman, and David Ludlow, J.'sP., presided at the Police Court yesterday. Samuel Thomas, drunk and disorderly at Tighe's Hill, was…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., [?]isposed of the Police Court business yesterday. Alma Evans, a dark-eyed young dau[?]sel, was charged with having, on the 30th September, given vent…
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MR. MAIR., P.M., Dr. Morgan, and Mr. G. Donald, J's.P., were the presiding magistrates at the Police Court yesterday. Edward Travers, alias "On the Rocky Road to Dublin," was fined £4, or two months'…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Hon. W. B. Dalley moves on Wednesday in the Legislative Council for leave to introduce his bill to amend the law of Contempt of Court…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. G. Donald, J.P., presided at the Police Court yesterday. Henry Brown alias Smith, and John Sullivan, alias "Yankes Jack" and having to his credit several other ali[?]ses,…
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LATE on Wednesday night a man named Thomas Cunnaan, aged thirty-one a pick and shovel man, was taken to the Sydney hospital in a terrible state by a constable. Cunnaan works at Eveleigh, and resided…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The body of a hawker, named Bezan, has been found near his waggon, between Wilcannia and Kerang covered with sheepskins, brutally murdered, and plundered of all his money…
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