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Courts & crime, 1826

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Parliamentary Intelligence. House of Commons, Thursday, March 9, 1826. Consolidation of the Statute Law of Theft

The Monitor · Friday 11 August 1826 · page 1

MR. PEEL hoped he might be permitted to prefer an appeal to the House for its most serious attention, while she submitted to their consideration some measures which he deemed to be of the very highest importance, as…

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Supreme Civil Court. Monday, August 7, 1826. LOWE v. DANGAR

The Monitor · Friday 11 August 1826 · page 7

THE plaintiff in this case, a magistrate of the territory, residing at Bringelly, sought to recover damages from the defendant, an old officer attached to the surveyor-general's office, but resident at Newcastle, for an…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Saturday 12 August 1826 · page 3

Francis Thorn was brought up on Thursday on suspicious of being a runaway. On enquiry this suspicion was ascertained to be unfounded. It appeared that the prisoner was attached to the Rooty Hill Government…

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Police Reports. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1826 · page 3

MONDAY, AUGUST 7.—There was very little business done in the Police Office. One man named James Smith, who had been detected in the afternoon of the Saturday preceding, in the shop of Mr. Robertson,…

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Sitting Magistrate for the ensuing Week. William Wemyss, Esquire

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1826 · page 2

Average Prices of Articles at the last Sydney Market:—Wheat, 7s. [?]d per bushel; maize, 2s. 9d. per ditto; barley, 3s. 0d. per ditto; potatoes, 10s. 0d. per cwt.; butter, 2s. 9d. per…

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Supreme Court. Tuesday, August 8

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1826 · page 3

The King, on the prosecution of Mary Reynolds, v. F. N. Rossi, Esq. The CHIEF JUSTICE.—In this case, a rule was granted, calling on the defendant to shew cause why a cirminal information should not be exhibited against him, on a charge of procuring one Mary Reynolds to…

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Sitting Magistrate—William Wemyes, Esquire

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 16 August 1826 · page 2

Average Prices of Articles at the last Sydney Market:—Wheat, 7s. [?]d. per bushel; maize, 2s. 9d. per ditto; barley, 3s. 0d. per ditto; potatoes, 10s. 0d. per cwt.; butter, 2s. 9d. per…

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Parramatta Police

The Australian · Wednesday 16 August 1826 · page 3

Mary Bradly acting in the capacity of servant at the Female Orphan School, being charged on last Tuesday week with stopping out longer than her pass allowed, was ordered to become an inmate of the Factory…

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Police Reports. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 16 August 1826 · page 3

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10.—Henry Horull, and Mary his wife, free, charged with an assault and battery on the person of Jane Carr. Committed for trial, but admitted to bail. John Stanley, free, charged with stealing a silver watch, the…

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SUPREME COURT—(Tuesday.)

The Australian · Wednesday 16 August 1826 · page 3

Thomas Galvin was indicted for refusing to be sworn before the Justices of the Peace at Cawder, touching certain matters pending before them on the 10th of July last…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Tuesday, August 15

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 16 August 1826 · page 3

Thomas Galvin was indicated for a misdemeanor, in refusing to be [?]worn as a witness, in a charge preferred against one Thomas Campbell, for selling spirits without licence, before J. M'Arthur, and H. C. Antill, Esqs. Justice of the Peace, at Cawdor, on the 10th day of July last…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Saturday 19 August 1826 · page 3

Three runaways from the Grose Farm Government Establishment were brought up in custody of sergt. Wilcox of the mounted patrol; who stated, that he apprehended the prisoners on the road, about five miles distance from…

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Police Reports. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 August 1826 · page 3

MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1826.—Richard Nugent, free, charged with [?]ulting and resisting three of the Sydney constables, who had him in charge, having found him in a drunken and disorderly state in the street. Committed for trial for the assault, &c. atterwards admitted…

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Sitting Magistrate for the ensuing Week, James Bowman, Esquire

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 August 1826 · page 2

AVERAGE PRICES AT THE LAST MARKET:— "Wheat, 7s. [?]d. per bushel; Maize, from 2s. 9d. to 3s.; Barley, 3s. 6d; Butter, from 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. per [?]b.; Cheese, from [?]s. to [?]s. 3d; Eggs, from [?]s. 3d. to is. 6d. per doz;…

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CRIMINAL COURT.—(Wednesday.)

The Australian · Saturday 19 August 1826 · page 4

Benjamin Jones was indicted for having committed violence to the person of Elizabeth Cutter, a child of 9 years of age, on the 26th of May last. From the evidence adduced in support of the prosecution being…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Wednesday, Aug. 16

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 August 1826 · page 3

John Edwards and William Holt, were indicted for a burglary and robbery, in the dwelling of —Smith, in Pitt-street, on the night of the 13th of July last…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Wednesday 23 August 1826 · page 3

John Williamson was accused of being an absentee from his usual government duty. The lad had left off attending at the Hyde Park Barrack since Thursday [?] night. Ordered to take a salutary though laborious exercise of 28…

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Police Reports. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 23 August 1826 · page 3

FRIDAY, AUGUST 18-John Diriey, prisoner for 7 years, and heretofore a constable in the Carters' barracks, appeared at the bar, charged with having feloniously stolen a set of plated harness, and some furniture, from a chaise belonging to Mr. Bigges, which with a…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Thursday, August 10

The Monitor · Friday 25 August 1826 · page 7

WILLIAM YOUNG and Dennis Rogers, prisoners of the crown, and absentees from their employ at Bathurst, were indicted for a robbery, on the 2d June last, on the person of Emanuel Gomer, a bush constable, attached…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Saturday 26 August 1826 · page 3

William Rowan, who has been in the habit of officiating as a scribe in the barracks, was charged on Wednesday with having [?] possessed himself of a black coat. A dwelling house it appeared, situated on the South Head road…

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