Murder at Stawell
An inquest was held yesterday at Stawell on the body of a Chinaman named Coy Sing, who has found dead on Monday in his but, at which the evidence pointed to…
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Courts & crime, 1885
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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, September 17. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., and G. Donald, J.P.)
DISOBEYING' ORDERS.—Gustave Anderson and Charles L. Johnson, two Norwegian seamen; belonging to the barque Malay, were charged with wilful disobedience of the…
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At the Rockhampton Circuit Court to-day, Walter Edward Gordon was found guilty of the murder of Walter Bunning, the manager of Darr River Downs station,…
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The man murdered at Charlton was one James Powell, lately from Ireland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, September 18. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M.)
INDECENT LANGUAGE.—A man named John Greenwood was charged with using obscene language in the public street. The evidence for the prosecution disclosed that…
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BAD LANGUAGE.— Joseph Parkinson, who was charged with using profane language in Watt-street on Saturday night, was fined £1 or seven days' imprisonment.—James Walker…
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Sarah Keep, sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder at Maitland, died in Darlinghurst gao! yesterday of acute inflammation of the lungs, accelerated by…
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EVER since the bodies of the murdered Maria Cook and her infant were found concealed in the bush, near Edenhope (the Melbourne Telegraph says) the detective and general…
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Thomas and Ellen King, husband and wife, have been committed for trial for the murder of Catherine Regan at Forbes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, September 22. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M.)
DRUNK AND INDECENT.—Thomas Cleary was charged with being drunk and using obscene language. It appears, that he was arrested for the first offence, when he…
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THE verdict of the jury at the inquest held on the death of Catherine Regan, an old woman who was found murdered in her house on the Condobolin-road on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, Sept. 22. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Creer and Shaw, Js.P.)
ILLEGALLY ON THE PREMISES.—Henry. Lusty, a man who had been found sleeping in the yard of John Ash and Sons yesterday morning about 1 o'clock, was discharged, as…
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THE present strike among the Newcastle wharf labourers assumed a new phase yesterday when one of the men, named Charles Henry, found himself before the magistrates,…
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An employ purse belonging to the murdered woman, Catherine Ryan, at Forbes, has been found on the prisoner, and a knife in his house…
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Five French missionaries have been murdered at Annam…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, September 24. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., and G. Donald, J.P.)
STOWAWAYS.—Albert Smith and George Edwards pleaded guilty to travelling from Sydney to Newcastle by the Namoi without paying their farces. They were fined £1…
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Mr. Williamson, solicitor, by the order of Mr. Buchanan, S.M., was expetled from the Central Police Court to-day. Mr. Williamson apologised, and the matter…
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SAID the Forbes and Parkes Gazette of Sept. 25 :—Since the committal of the Kings the police have been busy hunting up additional evidence. The house occupied by the…
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AT the Seine Assizes the other day a market gardener named Faire was brought up for a trial on a charge of committing two robberies and of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Scene in Court
THE Burrangong Chronicle states that a most painful scene occurred in the District Court at Young on Monday during the hearing of a case Boyle v, Thomas, in which the plaintiff…
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