A Scene in Court. the Lie Direct
SYDNEY, Monday.—Something like a scene occurred at the Water Police Court this afternoon, before Mr. Marsh, during the hearing of the charge of bigamy…
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Courts & crime, 1884
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Newcastle Police Court
Four drunkards were called upon to pay 5s each at the police court yesterday. A young seaman, 22, was committed for trial for having stolen a bundle of clothing from R…
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HIS Honor Judge Wilkinson sat at the Court House yesterday, and disposed of the remanets from the recent District Court sittings. The adjourned case Walker…
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Messrs. J. N. BROOKS, P.M., W. K. Lochhead, J.P. and J. Creer, J.P., presided at the police court yesterday. Four "drunks" were dealt with—one labourer, two sailors, and a "gentleman" travelling…
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THERE was not much of a field day at the police court yesterday. Hugh M'Farlane, a tall, wiry Scotch sailor, was fined 5s, or twenty-four hours, for drunkenness, and 60s, or a month, for having…
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MR. J. N. BROOKS, P.M., and Dr. Morgan, J.P., presided at the sittings of the Licensing Court yesterday. Mr. Gorrick, M.L.A., appeared for an applicant, Henry Ball, who sought to be granted a…
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BUT few offenders appeared before the local bench yesterday; only three inebriates being in the dock. John Spears, a striker, for having been drunk and disorderly, and using indecent language, was fined…
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Two offenders were the only ones trotted up before the local bench on Saturday—one a drunkard. His companion in the dock was a veteran, born A.D. 1816, and…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday. — Three shopkeepers in Sydney are said to be connected with a big robbery in Melbourne. In February last the warehouse of Mr…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—A blackfellow was brutally murdered by his mates at Nive Downs. The whole camp were yelling and fighting mad drunk with…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—An aborigine, at Port Lincoln, has been sentenced to six months for stealing oysters from the bed of the sea…
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MR. MAIR, P,M., presided yesterday at the Police Court, and fined one drunkard. James Daley alias Clark, a boarding-house runner, was lined £2, or fourteen days, for having used Billingsgate in…
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IT is a matter for surmise when the long-expected alterations at the Newcastle Courthouse will be effected. Promise after promise has been made that the work shall be at…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., did duty alone at the Police Court yesterday. In a charge of insulting words, William Wells v. Patrick Carlon, prosecutor failed to appear when…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Warder Elliott is slightly recovering from the assault on him by the prisoner Quinlan, in Darlinghurst gaol…
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VERY little business was transacted in the Police Court yesterday, and Mr. Mair, P.M., decided all the cases unassisted by any J.P. Matthias Dunkerson, a Dane, who…
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IN the Hay Police Court, on Tuesday, N. J. Trevena, J. P. was sued by his wife for desertion and maintenance. The lady deposed that she lived unhappily for twenty…
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VIENNA, Wednesday.—Several persons have been arrested on a charge of conspiring to attempt the life of the Emperor of Austria during a railway journey…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The man Adams has been committed for trial for the attempted murder of his wife at Prospect…
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THE P.M., Mr. Mair, adjudicated at the local court yesterday. The only prisoner was one in petticoats; and she was ordered to pay a crown to the Crown, or go back to the cells for twenty-four hours. As…
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