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Courts & crime, 1825

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 8 December 1825 · page 3

MONDAY, Nov. 28.—Joseph Jones[?] free, charged with stealing a blue cloth w[?]coat from the saddle room of a gentleman's premises at Sydney; fully committed for trial. David Jones, prisoner of the crown, charged with having…

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Criminal Court. (Wednesday.)

The Australian · Thursday 8 December 1825 · page 4

The Chief Justice entered the Court this morning a few minutes after ten o'clock, when those prisoners who have been convicted, and upon whom judgment has not been passed, were severally arraigned at the…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Before the Chief Justice. Wednesday, December 9

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 8 December 1825 · page 3

The following prisoners were brought up and received sentence:— Thomas Ross, John M'Donell, Aaron Price, Lawrence Cleary, and Patrick Clinch, convicted…

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Supreme Civil Court. Wednesday, November, 30, Before the Chief Justice. Aird v. Raine

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 8 December 1825 · page 3

This was an action brought to recover damages for an assault, committed on the person of the plaintiff, Mr. William Aird, Superintendent of the Government Works at Parramatta. The damages…

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Sitting Magistrate, William Wemyss, Esquire

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Monday 12 December 1825 · page 2

Average Prices of Articles at the last Sydney Market:—Wheat, 8s. 2d. per bushel; maize, 6s. 0d. per ditto; harley, 5s. 0d. per ditto; potatoes, 14s. per cwt; butter, 2s. 0d. per lb;…

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Supreme Criminal Court Thursday, December 8. Before the Chief Justice

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Monday 12 December 1825 · page 3

William Baker and William Johnson were indicted for a burglary in the premises of Mr. Arthur Hill, in Phillip-street, and stealing therefrom a quantity of wearing apparel, table linen, &c. on the…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 15 December 1825 · page 3

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5.—Elizabeth Clarke, free, was brought up; charged with having in her possession a silver piece, engraved, value 2s. which had been stolen with other articles from a dwelling-house, burglarionaly broken into…

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Sitting Magistrate, James Bowman, Esquire

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Monday 19 December 1825 · page 2

Average Prices of Articles at the last Sydney Market:—Wheat, 7s. 7d. per bushel; maize, 7s. 0d. per ditto; barley, 4s. 0d. per ditto; potatoes, 12s. per cwt; butter, 2s. 0d. per lb;…

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Sitting Magistrate, James Bowman, Esquire

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 22 December 1825 · page 2

Average Prices of Articles at the last Sydney Market:—Wheat, 7s. 7d. per bushel; maize, 7s. 0d. per ditto; barley, 4s. 0d. per ditto; potatoes, 12s. per cwt; butter, 2s. 0d. per lb;…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 22 December 1825 · page 3

MONDAY, DECEMBER 12.—John Morris, free, in the service of Mr. Campbell, of George-street, charged with embez zling monies entrusted to him by his master, and with a fraudulent appropriation thereof, was fully committed…

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Law Intelligence. Court of King's Bench, June 14, 1825

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 22 December 1825 · page 4

BRADLEY v. ARTHUR.—Mr. Evans and Mr. Cameron were heard in support of the rule for a new trial, and urged that Colonel Arthur's autho[?] to command the troops ceased when his…

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Sitting Magistrate, Alexander Berry, Esquire

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Sunday 25 December 1825 · page 2

Average Prices of Articles at the last Sydney Market:—Wheat, 6s. 10d½. per bushel; maize, 7s. 0d. per ditto; harley, 4s. 9d. per ditto; potatoes, 12s. per cwt; butter, 2s. 3d. per lb;…

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Sheriff's Office, December 13, 1825. In the Supreme Court. R. Campbell, sen. v. Peter Sinclair

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Sunday 25 December 1825 · page 1

TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Direction of the Sheriff, at the Market-place, Sydney, on Thursday, the 29th Insant, at 12 o'Clock at Noon, a valuable FARM, containing 1[?] Acres, [?] in the District of the…

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Supreme Court. Wednesday, December 21, 1825. Before the Chief Justice, and Judge STEPHEN. Rev. Wi[?]liam Walker v. Archdeacon Scott

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Sunday 25 December 1825 · page 3

The ATTORNEY GENERAL rose and stated, that be appeared against a rule Nisi, obtained on the 30th of November, in which it was ordered, upon reading the [?] of Mr. Walker, that the…

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Sitting Magistrate, F.A.Hely, Esquire

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 29 December 1825 · page 2

Average Prices of Articles at the last Sydney Market:—Wheat, 6s. 10½d. per bushel; maize, 7t. 6d. per ditto; barley, 4s. 9d. per ditto; potatoes, 12s. percwt; butter, 2s. 3d. per lb;…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 29 December 1825 · page 3

MONDAY, DECEMBER 19.—Jeremiah Malony, Prisoner of the crown, detected at a late hour last night on the premieses of Mr. Sates, under circumstances, of vialnet suspicion, was brought forward and having no ples to offer, was sentenced…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Saturday, December 24

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 29 December 1825 · page 3

Before the CHIEF JUSTICE and Judge STEPHEN. The Court met this morning at 11 o'clock, when the following prisoners were placed at the bar, and received sentence:—…

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