Queensland. Brisbane, Thursday. Sentenced to Death
Michael Barry, who murdered his wife two months ago under exceptionally cruel circumstances, was found guilty at Rockhampton today and sentenced to death…
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Courts & crime, 1890
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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, 24Th April. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
PHILIP HBFNER, was charged with driving a van containing furniture on Sunday, and was fined 2s 6d and 5s 6d costs. Paid. Joseph Mento, pleaded guilty to a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, April 24. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and W.H. Shaw and G.C. Martin, Js.P.)
ROBERT BROWN, age 32, a seaman, was fined 5s or 24 hours for being incapable in Watt-street on the previous evening A Wrong Charge…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mysterious Murder. Tragedy in the Domain. Body Thrown Into the Harbour. Sydney
SHORTLY after 7 o'clock this morning news was received by the police that the dead body of a man was lying among the rocks on the western side of the Woolloomooloo Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, April 24. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and W.H. Shaw and G. C. Martin, Js.P.) Billiards After Hours
EDWARD YOUNG, licensee of a public house at Tighe's Hill, pleaded guilty to a charge of permitting a game of billiards to be played on the premises at a time other than during…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Horrible Murder of a Miser
AMPLE material for a sensational novel is supplied, telegraphs a Vienna correspondent, in the last police reports from Stockerau, a small town on the left bank of the Danube…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lambton Police Court. Friday, 25Th April. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
ANDREW REAY pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly, and using very bed language in the public street. Fined 10s. Paid…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, April 25. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Thorn and Christie, Js.P) Drunk
LOUISA STTREET was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' gaol, for being drunk in Darby street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Sensational Murder in Sydney. Two Arrests Made. Inquest Adjourned. a Clue. SYDNEY
GREAT excitement has been caused here by the news of the latest, and perhaps, most cruel and determined murder which has ever had to be recorded in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, April 26. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M) Alleged Wife Desertion
JOSEPH M'ALISTER, 35, a miner, was charged with wife desertion, and was remanded for a week to enable him to get work and secure a home for his wife and two children…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →(From the Sydney and Melbourne Papers.) The Cronin Murder
LONDON, Thursday.—Frank Woodruffe, a member of the notorious Clan-na-Gael, who confessed to being implicated in the murder of Dr. Cronin at Chicago last year, and who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wagga Murder. the Inquest. Sydney
ALFRED SCHMIDT was brought before the police magistrate at Wagga this morning and charged with the murder of John Young Taylor. Constable Dixon gave evidence of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, April 28. (Before Messrs Mair, P.M, and Ludlow, J.P.) Drunks
CHARLES BURRELL, 30, a seaman James Anderson, 52, a labourer, Thomas Anderson, 28, a seaman, John Smith, 19, a labourer, and Thomas Sheridan, 22, a seaman, were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Murder in the Domain. The Victim Identified. SYDNEY
IT has now been ascertained by the authorities that the name of the unfortudate man who was so brutally murdered in the Domain, was Dennis Connor, an Irishman by birth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Domain Murder. Another Version. SYDNEY
MATTERS in connection with the Domain murder are being cleared up. The police are, however, very reticient regarding the latest developments of the case, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wagga Tragedy. Verdict of Wilful Murder. Sydney
WHEN the court resumed at 2 o'clock yesterday Caroline Horner deposed, that on Easter Monday, Schmidt, alone in the waggonette, called at her house and asked if she…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, April 29. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M, C. Hannell, and D. Murray, Js.P.) Drunk and Noisy
Annie Patterson, 32, was fined 5s, in default 24 hours' gaol, for being drunk in Darby-street; and for using obscene language in Hunter-street, a further penalty of £3, or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wallsend Police Court. Wednesday, 30Th April. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
CHING WAY, from the flowery land and a retailer of vegetables, was charged with being drunk in a public place at Plattsburg on the 29th inst. He pleaded guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, April 30. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Shaw, J.P.) Drunk
CHARLES ANDERSON, 29, seaman, James Watt, 32, a cook, and John Rice, 50, a labourer, were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' goal, for having been drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Domain Murder. Body to Be Exhumed. Sydney
THE inquest into the circumstances attending the murder of Dennis Connor in the Domain last week was resumed at the coroner's court this morning…
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