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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1824

204 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 11

Sitting Magistrate—ALEXANDER BERRY, Esq

The Australian · Thursday 2 December 1824 · page 4

Yesterday Colonel Thornton and Mr. Stephen were sworn in as locos tenentes, for the Governor and Chief Justice. Mr. Stephen adjourned the Court to Saturday next the 4th inst.—A further adjournment is expected to take place on that day, until the 15th…

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Police Office (Friday)

The Australian · Thursday 2 December 1824 · page 2

James Douglas, late constable of the Carter's Barracks, and holding a-ticket of leave, was convicted before the Magistrate of harbouring bush rangers upon his premises contiguous to Sydney. He was sentenced to be deprived of his ticket, and to…

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Police Office News

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 2 December 1824 · page 3

Monday, Nov. 22. This day three prisoners of the Crown, named Francis Stewart, Alexander Stevens, and Francis Warren, all employed in the Commissariat Stores, were brought up, charged with…

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British Extracts. Sheriff's Court, Dubliin

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 2 December 1824 · page 1

CRIM CON.—MOORE v. FITZGIBBON.—The SolicitorGeneral said, it was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover damages for the seduction of his wife. For ten years they lived together in a state of connubial happiness; she…

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Sitting Magistrate.—Alexander Berry, Esquire. Assize of Bread, the Loaf of Two Pounds, 4½d

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 2 December 1824 · page 2

Average Prices of Articles at the last Sydney Market:—Wheat, 7s. 9½d. per bushel; maize, 5s. 6d. per ditto; potatoes, 9s. per cwt; butter, 1s. 7'd. per lb; eggs, 1s. 4d. per dozen; fowls,…

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Police Office

The Australian · Thursday 9 December 1824 · page 3

THURSDAY.—E. Wiseman, M. Foster, & R.Yates, were charged with breaking into the dwelling of William Fitzpatrick in Sussex-street, and stealing from thence one pair of sheets, one blanket and a considerable quantity of wearing apparel. Fit patrick…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 9 December 1824 · page 3

We are sorry we omitted to [?] at the proper time, amost daring and desperate outrage, committed on the Parramatta road near Sydney, on the 27th of last month, when a piece was fired off from behind the…

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Sitting Magistrate—Edward Wollstonecraft, Esquire. Assize of Bread, the Loaf of Two Pounds, 4½d

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 9 December 1824 · page 2

Average Prices of Articles at the last Sydney Market:—Wheat, 6s. 2[?]d. per bushel; maize, 5s. 3d. per ditto; barley, 5s. 6d. per ditto; potatoes, 7s. per cwt; butter, 1s. 10½d. per lb;…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 16 December 1824 · page 3

DEC. 8.—Hugh M'Nally, a prisoner of the crown, [?] up on a charge of ex[?] money from [?] under false [?] of [?] [?] or [?] to [?] their cattle—…

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Police Office

The Australian · Thursday 16 December 1824 · page 3

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8.—Elizabeth Thompson, alias Mitchell, alias Freeman, was brought up charged with riotous and disorderly conduct on the night of Tuesday last. The cause assigned by the aforesaid lady…

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Supreme-court

The Australian · Thursday 16 December 1824 · page 3

MONDAY.—The Chief Justice in opening the Court observed, that before they proceeded to business he would make one or two remarks, with regard to the practice necessary to be adopted. He had hoped instructions would have reached the colony from…

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Police Office

The Australian · Thursday 23 December 1824 · page 3

William Coffrey, apparently sixty years of age, prisoner belonging to Hyde Park barracks, was brought up on a charge of passing counterfeit coin, purporting to be rupees and Russian monies, value 2s. 6d. each…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 23 December 1824 · page 2

DEC. 16—John Leighton a miller, appeared by his son[?] answer to a summons on a complaint of Messrs. A[?] [?] Bingle, for having returned a considerable [?] [?] f[?] in an adulterated state, from wheat they had [?] [?] [?]…

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Supreme Court

The Australian · Thursday 23 December 1824 · page 3

THURSDAY.—In the case of William King, confined in the gaol by virtue of a warrant signed by Mr. Macleod, as a runaway from H. M. ship Tamar, the Chief Justice observed, that in consequence of…

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Prosecutions at the Criminal Court

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 23 December 1824 · page 1

PROSECUTORS and Witnesses, and all other Persons concerned, will be pleased to address to the ATTORNEY GENERAL any Communications which they may think necessary in…

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The Court of Vice Admiralty, in and for the Territory of New South Wales. (Instance Court.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 23 December 1824 · page 1

SHIP PHOENIX.—Upon the Report made to this Court, on the Commission of Survey issued in the above Case, It is ordered, that Witnesses be examined, in open Court, before the…

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Sheriff's Office, December 15, 1824. In the Supreme Court. Cooper v. Archbold

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 23 December 1824 · page 3

TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Direction of the Sheriff, on the Promises, on Monday the 27th December at 11 o'Clock in the Forenoon, All that Message and Premises, situate on the Rocks, and lying at the…

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Sheriff's Office, December 22, 1824. In the Supreme Court. Berry and Wollstonecraft v. Bacon

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 23 December 1824 · page 3

TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Direction of the Sheriff, on the Premises, near the Police Office on Saturday the 8th of January, at 12 o'Clock at Noon, The Defendeant' [?] and Interest to certain Implements and Stock…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 30 December 1824 · page 3

THURSDAY, DEC 23.—This day,John Dowling and James Henshaw, free men, were brought up on a charge of stealing a bag of sugar, the properly of Mr. Robert Cooper, feloniously taken…

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Police Office

The Australian · Thursday 30 December 1824 · page 3

MONDAY.—The attention of the court was this morning occupied for a considerable time, touching certain jealousies existing between two respectable married ladies: Mrs. Mary Anne Whitfield on the one…

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