Maitland Circuit Court
WEST MAITLAND, Friday.—The jury, in the case Mackay v. the Government, returned from Ravenworth this afternoon, soon after 3 o'clock, and the Court was…
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Courts & crime, 1884
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Alleged Indecent Assault
SYDNEY, Saturday.—Thomas Irvine, a cook, aged 35, has been committed for trial on a charge of indecently assaulting Louisa Winter, a girl of 14 years…
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GIRILAMBONE, Saturday.—At the inquest on the man Peter O'Hare, who was found murdered near Nyngan, the prisoner Toohey said he knew nothing of the…
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THE P.M. was assisted by Mr. David Ludlow, J.P., in the disposal of yesterday's local Police Court business. Nine drunkards were dealt with. John Parker, for…
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A COOL burglary is reported to have taken place on the premises of Mr. Turnbull, a blacksmith residing at Hamilton, on Tuesday evening. It seems that Mr. Turnbull,…
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THE New Zealand Times relates that on April 25 the proceedings at the Supreme Court, at Wellington, were momentarily interrupted by the shock of an earthquake,…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A man named Browning, a recent arrival from Sydney, killed his wife here yesterday by battering in her skull, Browning was furious with…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Executive have decided that the sentence of death passed on Joseph Gordon, at the Deniliquin Assizes, for the murder of George Mizon, a…
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AT the police court yesterday, before the P.M., the following business was disposed of. Mary Lynch, aged nineteen, a servant girl, was sentenced to two months' hard…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—At the inquest on the fatal affray on the barque Fanny M. Woolfe, the second mate was committed for trial on a charge of murder…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The man Shortland, who has been arrested for the murder of his wife, is said to be a New Zealand (not a South Australian) barrister…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—Mr. R. W. Pennefather, barrister, of Echuca, forwarded a petition to Lord Augustus Loftus, praying for a reprieve of Joseph Cordon or Gordon,…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., with Messrs. Chapman, O'Sullivan, and Ludlow, J.'sP., presided at the Police Court yesterday. Nine drunkards were dealt with, and a number of minor…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Henry Morgan has been found guilty of the murder of Margaret Nolan, at Panmure, and has been sentenced to death…
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BRIDGEPORT, Cenn., March 6, 1884.—Captain Annie Dixon, Annie Mather, Addie Richards, Lucie Reed Mm. Neilson, members of the Falvation Army,…
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THE Home News of 21st March says:—The trial of three men charged with carrying out a systematic scheme for the murder of servant girls has just taken place in Vienna, and excited extraordinary interest,…
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AT the Police Court, yesterday, two drunkards were were dealt with. William Brady, for having suffered a horse to stray, was fined 7s 6d…
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AT the Police Court yesterday James Crosbie O'Connor, a traveller, was charged with having embezzled the sun of £10, belonging to Summerfield and Co., tailors…
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NYNGAN, Friday.—An open verdict has been returned in the inquest on the murdered man at Nyngan. Mr. Geo. Wallace defended the man who was arrested on the…
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JOHNSTOWN, Pa., March 6, 1884.—The trial of Mickey Smith, a policeman of Prospect borough, for the killing of John Monahan by shooting with a pistol in a…
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