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Courts & crime, 1826

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Saturday 1 July 1826 · page 3

Wm. Silk, a prisoner of the Crown for life, and John Hendrick, for seven years, were yesterday charged with a street robery. It appeared that as Mr. S. Clayton was perambulating along King-street, on Thursday evening last, he felt a sudden…

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Sitting Magistrate for the ensuing Week, Alexander Berry, Esquire

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1826 · page 2

Average Prices of Articles at the last Sydney Market:---Wheat, 6s. lOd. per bushel; maize, 3s. Od. per ditto; barley, 3s. 6d. per ditto; potatoes, 12s. Od. per cwt.; butter, 2a. 3d. per…

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Sitting Magistrate—Alexander Berry, Esquire

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 5 July 1826 · page 2

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

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The Police

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 5 July 1826 · page 3

FRIDAY, JUNE 30.—Wm. Silk, prisoner for life, and John Hendrick, prisoner for 7 years, were brought up on the following charges, viz; against the prisoner Silk for having attacked Mr. Samuel…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Wednesday 5 July 1826 · page 3

Samuel Stannars and Daniel Ford, two assigned servants, were yesterday charged by their master with deducting a quantity of spirits from his store. It appeared that the prisoners had for some time past been in the habit of carrying on an intrigue…

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Police Court, Cawdor, June, 26th

The Monitor · Friday 7 July 1826 · page 2

WILLIAM KEEGAN, overseer, and Edward Brumagam, government servant to Mr. George Cutter, Operative Cart and Caravan builder, &c. of Sydney, were fully committed to take their trial, for obtaining dinner,…

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Supreme Court

The Monitor · Friday 7 July 1826 · page 5

First Sittings in Term.—The Court sat this morning for Motions. On. the Chief Justice taking his seat, the newly framed rules of Court were read by the Clerk, to the gentlemen at the bar…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Saturday 8 July 1826 · page 3

Four person, named Thomas Wilson, John Roberts, Henry Myers, and James Wood, underwent an investigation on Wednesday last. They were suspected of being concerned in the abstraction of a number of New South…

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The Police

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 July 1826 · page 3

TUESDAY, JULY 4.—Samuel Stammers and Daniel Ford, prisoners of the crown for 7 years each, stood charged by their master, T. W. Winder, Esq, with having, by means of skeleton keys,…

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Sitting Magistrate for the ensuing Week, Edward Wollstonecraft, Esquire

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 July 1826 · page 2

Average Prices of Articles at the last Sydney Market:—Wheat, 6s. 6d. per bushel; maize, 3s. 6d. per ditto; barley, 3s. 6d. per ditto; potatoes, 10s. 0d. per cwt.; butter, 2s. 6d. per…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Thursday, July 6, 1826

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 July 1826 · page 3

The ATTORNEY GENERAL presented an information against Charles Kable, charging him with stealing a horse, the property of George Seymour, at Windsor, on the 23d of May last…

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Sitting Magistrate—E. Wollstonecraft, Esquire

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 12 July 1826 · page 2

Average Prices of Articles at the last Sydney Market:-Wheat, 6s. 6d, per bushel; maize, 3s. 6d. per ditto; barley, 3s. 6d. per ditto; potatoes, 10s. 6d. per cwt.; butter, 2s. 6d. per…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Wednesday 12 July 1826 · page 3

George Lorent free, stood charged on Monday with a robbery.—Mrs. Worrall deposed, that about noon, on Thursday last, the prisoner came to her shop, in Pitt street, and asked for a quantity of dungaree, which was supplied him—a short time after the…

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The Police

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 12 July 1826 · page 3

FRIDAY, JULY 7.—George Armstrong, prisoner of the crown for life, charged with hiving stolen a piece of print from the stall of Michael Macquade, a deater in the Market-place, in the…

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Supremo Civil Court. Monday. July 10

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 12 July 1826 · page 3

The Court sat this day by special appointment to dispose of several outstanding motions. In the case of Spencer versus Jeffrey, Mr. Norton moved an arrest of judgment on the ground…

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In the Supreme Court. Sheriff's Office, July 11,1826. Dillon v. Boarcman

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 12 July 1826 · page 1

ON Thursday, 27th July [?] at 12 O'Clock at Noon, the SHERIFP will cause to be put up for Sale, at SMITH's Public House, Wallis's-plains, Hunter's-river, the Defendant's Farm and Premises, sitnate on the said…

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In the Supreme Court. Sheriff's Office, July 4, 1826. Doyle v. Elias, Administrator of Solomon Josepli

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 12 July 1826 · page 1

ON Saturday the 16th Instant, at 12 o'Clock, at windsor, the SHERIFP will cause to be put up by AUCTION, a HOUSE, consisting of 4 Rooms, 3 Grannrirs, Stable, &c. and 30 Rods of Ground; the Property of the…

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A Magistrate of the Colony Has Sent Us the Following, with a Request That It May Be Inserted in Our Columns. Extract from the late popular Work of M. Garnier, on Political Economy

The Monitor · Friday 14 July 1826 · page 2

POLITICAL economy is a science of very modern origin. About the middle of the eighteenth century, a learned Frenchman directed his attention to this subject, and became the founder of a celebrated school…

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The Police

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1826 · page 3

-000000TUESDAY, JULY 11 —Jane Carr, prisoner for 14years, in whose house, under the authority of a search warrant, a considerable quantity of articles of varions descriptions, and…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Saturday 15 July 1826 · page 3

Daniel Delany, and Patrick Neville, two assigned servals were charged on Wednesday, with being found drunk in Kent-street at the hour of 9 o'clock at night, neither one nor the other possessed of a single light or written pass—for this [?]…

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