Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., Registrar.) Public Examinations
AUGUSTUS MONTHEY, a blacksmith, at Merewether, was publicly examined. No debts were proved by the creditors. He seemed very dense, and was loth…
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Courts & crime, 1891
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Parliament. Thursday, July 30. Legislative Assembly. Civil Service Superannuation Fund. Financial Condition of the Colony. Additional Magistrate for Bourke. Dredging of Newcastle Harbour. Wreck of the Barque Ellen. SYDNEY
THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m. CIVIL SERVICE SUPERANNUATION FUND. Sir HENRY PARKES, in reply to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambton Police Court. Friday, 31St July. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Baffling Case
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, a carter, was charged with disposing of a pig by raffling the same with dice on the 24th inst, in the Northumberland Hotel, Elder-street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, July 31. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Thorn, J.P.) Drunks
THOMAS BOURKE, aged 68, labourer; Thomas Collier, aged 32, labourer; and Elizabeth Bray, aged 29, were each fined 5s, or in default twenty-four hours' imprisonment, for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, August 1. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks
JOHN MURRAY, 55, a labourer, and Mary Thomas, 30, were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, August 3. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks
JOHN SMITH, aged 30; John Burns, aged 37; David Cunningham, aged 23; and William Kennedy, aged 33, all seamen, were fined the usual sum…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend Police Court. Monday, August 3. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
THE only business before, the Court this morning was a solitary drunk and disorderly hailing from West Wallsend, named W. Philips. Constable Brown having proved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Foveaux-street Murder. Trial Again Postponed. Sydney
MAURICE DALTON was this morning arraigned at the Central Criminal Court, Darlinghurst, before his Honor Sir George Long Innes, on a charge of having murdered his wife,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cablegrams. a Terrible Tragedy. Drunken Italians Plunder a Mansion. Murder a Family
NEW YORK, Monday.—News of a terrible outrage has been received from Virginia. Fifty drunken Italians attacked a mansion, and cut the throats of the father, two sons,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Woman Assaulter. Before the Court. SYDNEY
THE man Bertram Everard, who was captured at Randwick, while in the act of brutally assaulting a young lady in a street, and who is a short and thickly-set young…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EMBEZZLEMENT. Sentenced to Six Months
James Cunningham, aged 68, a sailmaker, was charged with embezzling the sum of £15 13s 8d, the, property of Messrs. Wooden and Frost,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Surry Hills Murder. Trial Postponed. SYDNEY
HIS Honor Mr. Justice Innes delivered his reserved judgment this morning at the Central Criminal Court in the matter of the application of the Crown for a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, August 4. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Murray, J.P.) Drunks
THOMAS CLEARY, age 54, draper; Richard Kelly, 52, butcher; and Alex. Banner, 32, labourer; were each fined 5s, or in default 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, August 5. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks
WILLIAM GREGORY, age 40, seaman, and Alexander Turnbull, 62, ship-wright, were fined 5s, or 24 hours, for having been drunk on the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(From Sydney and Melbourne Papers.) Leeds Murder Case
LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Justice Grantham, who is presiding at the Leeds assizes, and who sentenced Walter Turner to death for the murder and mutilation of Barbara…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Effect of Drink. Fined for Assault
Francis Parry, age 54, a publican at Merewether, was charged with committing an aggravated assault on his wife, Sophia Parry, on the 5th…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. HORSE-STEALING
A MAN named Fred. Phillis was sentenced to four years' hard labour at the Quarter Sessions to-day for having stolen a horse, cart, and harness, the property of John…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Improving the Police Cells
THE four new cells recently erected at the police barracks in Hunter-street were found to be very damp, and on the advice of the local inspector of works (Mr. Rigg), the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Licensing Court. Transferred
On the application of the parties, a transfer of the license of Walsh's Family Hotel, at Carrington, was granted, from John Jackson to George…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, August 6. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Riotous Behaviour
THE following boys, John Thornton, John Davies, Henry Joblin, John Joblin, William Nichols, Ralph Thornton, Edward Weller, G. R…
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