Another Atrocious Murder
WHAT is believed to be another atrocious murder was reported from Hamilton (Victoria) on Thursday morning. About 8 o'clock a man named M'Sweeney,…
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Courts & crime, 1884
447 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 23
Origin of the Thames Police
IN 1792 the number of barges and craft required for the traffic between the ships in the river Thames and the quays was 500 for timber and 1180 for…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Chas. Rice has been tried for the murder of his wife, Bridget, at Prahran, by beating her to death with a piece of quartering. The principal…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—A cowardly assault was committed yesterday at the post office by a number of Union men upon a man named Acton, who went to the office to sign…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. David Ludlow, J.P., presided at the police court yesterday. John King, labourer, for having assaulted special constable Lynch, at the Borough…
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AT the Geelong (Victoria) Assizes, on Saturday, Mary Anne Silk was tried before the Chief Justice for having murdered her husband at Morrison's in September last. Dr…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At the Water Police Court to-day, Mr. M'Elhone, M.L.A., was charged, on the information of Wm. Chas. Bedan, of Kellet House, Upper…
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IN connection with the recent mysterious murder of a swagman in a hut on the Pierpoint estate, Spider, the black tracker, accompanied by…
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THREE women were tried recently for the murder of a woman in Glasgow. They were sisters, and their victim was their sister-in-law. There had…
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United Ireland publishes O'Donnell's account of the shooting of Carey, as given by a gentleman who received the statement from O'Donnell. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Cold-blooded Crime. Brutal Assault and Murder of a Woman in a Hotel
JOLIET, Ill., Dec. 19, 1883.—A shocking crime occurred about 2 o'clock this morning at the Auburn House, in this city. At the time-stated the boarders and guests on…
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AT Nundle, on Sunday, a murderous assault was committed by a Chinaman named Ah Fat upon a countryman named Ah Fook. The latter, it seems,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder of Six Girls in Russia
A FEW days ago (writes an Odessa correspondent) seven girls employed at a sugar factory in Balta, left that town in the evening to return to their native…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The detectives are in no way relaxing their efforts to trace the murderer of the man Murphy, at Pierrepoint, near Hamilton. Black trackers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Magistrate and the Dark Lanterns
A MAGISTRATE in one of the [?] is always on the look-out for burglars and sirens, and, like the man of science in "Pickwick," is fond of speculating on the causes…
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A DARING assault and robbery took place in Swanston-street, Melbourne, shortly after midnight on Wednesday. James Barker, engineer, of the steamer Easby, was…
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A MARRED woman, called Van der Linden, aged 45 years, mother of three children, is charged at Leiden with having murdered sixteen persons in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Murder of a Family in New Zealand
IN connection with the recent terrible murder by a man named Edwards of his wife and family at Ormondville, New Zealand, the Napier correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The New Police Magistrate
SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. T. K. Abbott, the new P.M., took his seat on the bench at the Central Police Court to-day, add was welcomed by the lawyers…
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AT the Police Court yesterday business was disposed of by the P.M., and Messrs. Chapman, and Ludlow, J's,P. About a dozen drunkards were dealt with. James…
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