An Atrocious Murder
DENILIQUIN, Saturday.—A horrible murder has been committed near Pretty Pine, ten miles from Deniliquin. On Thursday the body of Myzan, a hawker,…
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Courts & crime, 1883
290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 15
Burglary and Stabbing
A SERIOUS case of burglary and stabbing occurred at the Lincolnshire Arms Hotel, Essendon Victoria, about 4 o'clock on Sunday week. A lodger named Charles Stewart was awakened by a noise in the…
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SAYS Plato—"Why should man be vain since bounteous Heaven hath made him great?" But they who grab for worldly gain, the question scarce will contemplate…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A man named Oliver Beere was charged to-day with stealing nearly 3000 yards of silk, over 1000 yards of satin, and eighty umbrellas, valued…
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An American paper says: A profound sensation has been created in Philadelphia by the discovery in a cellar of the house No. 2245 North Fifth street of the bodies of twenty-one infants who had been killed…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., disposed of the Police Court charge and summons sheets yesterday. In a case, Adams v. Jane Pike, for using indecent language in Dickson-street, Wickham, defendant…
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LYTTELTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.—John Durham, an old waterman, of Lyttelton (N.Z.), has been found strangled in his house. His mate, James Argus, has been arrested on…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P., presided at the Police Court yesterday. The drunkards' list having been dis-disposed of, John McNeill, Donald Currie,…
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BATHURST, Wednesday.—A man named John Brown, for maliciously wounding Ned "the pieman," at Bathurst, has been sentenced to eight years' penal-servitude…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—News has been received here that Archibald Wilson, late of Sydney an engineer and fitter, has been murdered in Fiji by six natives…
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The debate on the second reading of the Contempt of Court Bill was resumed in the Council yesterday. Sir Alfred Stephen, in a lengthy speech,…
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PERTH, W.A., Friday.—On Wednesday evening, Alexander Niren, a sign writer, made a savage assault upon a woman named Minnie Green, with whom he had been living for some time past. He…
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CONSIDERABLE sensation, and a great deal of subsequent amusement, was caused at the Carlton Police Court (says the Melbourne Herald) at the conclusion of a case brought by the Pharmacy Board against Mr…
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LONDON, Sunday.—An "Invincible" has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment, for threatening to murder Mr. Coleman, member for Norwich…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., with Dr. Morgan, and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J's P., presided at the Police Court yesterday. A case Elizabeth Jane Coote v. Charles Coote, for alleged…
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DENILIQUIN, Tuesday.—The man Gordon has been further remanded for the recent murder of the hawker Nysan, near Deniliquin. The evidence against…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The wife of an hotelkeeper at Kyneton has been found dead on the side of a road, with her head battered in. The body was horribly…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., adjourned at the Police Court yesterday. Catherine Thomas and John Oswald, for having used profane language at Hamilton, were each fined 42s 6d,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Thomas Banner, convicted of an aggravated assault on his wife, has been sentenced to three years penal servitude, the first six months to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chinese Riot at Cairns (N.q.) the Police Called Out. One Chinaman Killed and Three Wounded
CAIRNS, Wednesday.—Thirty Chinamen employed at a plantation near Cairns refused work. The police were sent for, and a riot ensued. One Chinese was killed,…
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