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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime
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Two individuals, first offenders, who pleaded guilty to charges of drunk and disorderly and making usse of indecent language, but promised to be of good behaviour in the future, were admonished and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Saturday night, 28th October, the Mayor of Chicago was killed in his own residence by a man named Prendergast. Mr. Harrison had returned from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BEFORE Messrs. J. Barrie and T. C. Lodge, J. S. [?] T[?]thy; Darcy pleaded guilty to a charge of having been drunk and disorderly, and was fined 20 om default 7 days hard labour in Lismore…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE the Police Magistrate. Telegraph Department v. B. Alley.—Damages 15s. No appearance of plaintiffs. Struck out J. C. Newman v. John Riley.—Goods £2. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE the Police Magistrate. Charles Williams pleaded guilty to a charge of having made use of indecent lanuage,a dn was fined £3, default two months' hard labar, Casino…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE Messrs. J. Barrie and J.F. O'Flynn, Js.P. An individual, charged with drunkenness, was dismissed with a caution. A slanghtering license was granted to W. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE Messrs. J. Barrie, J.F. O'Flynn, and T.G. Hewitt. Js.P. J. Burgess v. W. Dunnan.—A claim of £10 for work and labour performed (ploughing and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Ecening News says: The dispute over the nightsoil question again cropped up at Tuesday night's meeting of the Balmain Council, and was dealt with in a manner quite in keeping with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ABOUT 2.30 o'clock on Friday morning Senior— Constables Ball and M'Court and Constable Lyons, of No. 4 police station, while standing at the corner of George and Bridge streets, saw…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"MAY the Lord have mercy on your soul," are the last words which the condemned man hears from the lips of the judge, who passes the "awful sentence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FOR so long a period has our town been exempt from burglary; and such like exciting episodes, that the in news that the Crown Stores had been broken Into…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BEFORE the Police Magistrate and, Mr. J. Barrie, J.P. R. Ormissto v. J. Gollan.—This was a charge of assault. Complainant's case was that he went into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE the P.M. and Mr. J. Barrie,.T.P. L. Berustein v. J. A. Perry (official liquidator R. R. Bacon Curing Company).—Unpaid call, £5. defendant had sent a cheque, but making it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Thursday when the vote for Petty Sessions was brought forward, Mr. Langwell called the attention of the Minister to the conduct of the police magistrate at Wilcannia. He asserted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE accommodation afforded by the police quartern in Lismore has long been of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE District Court opened at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, before His Honor Judge Coffey. The following members of the legal profession were present. Barristers: Messrs. R. J. Browning, J. G. O'Ryan, and —Addison. Solicitors:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Court re-opened at 9 a.m. before His Honor, Judge Coffey. John Clancy v. Alfred Bennett. Claim £109 2s work done. Mr. M'Intosh for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RE ROBERT M'LEAN. The bankrupt (who had been committed to prison for retiming to be swern) attended on Thursday, and was examined by Mr. Mark Mitchell. The bankrupt deposed that he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CAPTAIN EVANS, the head of the Penal Department iu Victoria, says ho finds it impossible just now to set the prisoners in Pentridge and the Melbourne Gaol to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →RECENTLY a prisoner, named Henry Neville died in the Goulburn Gaol. He was undergoing a sentence of "life" for murder. His crime was one of the…
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