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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1826

404 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 21

Police Reports. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 August 1826 · page 3

MONDAY, AUGUST 21.—John Nettle, free, charged with stealing from a bag of damaged sugar, landed on Messrs Haine and Ramsay's wharf, a quantity of its contenu, the sugar was found in the prisoners's hat, and diet not weigh more than 3 or 3lbs but as it appeared to…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Wednesday 30 August 1826 · page 3

John Rayson, accused of stealing two iron spades, the property of Mr. R. Cooper, was sentenced to be worked in irons for a term of six months. John Brown, identified as a runaway, and charged with a…

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Police Reports. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 30 August 1826 · page 3

FRIDAY, AUG. 25.—Thomas Gilderoy, life, charged with stealing a watch, the property of Walter Iloston. It appeared that the prisoner called in at Boston's, and asked for employment; that Boston told bim to sit down for a short time, and he would speak to him; that the…

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Court of Requests, [?]indsor

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 30 August 1826 · page 3

TUESDAY, AUGUST 22.—This useful Court opened its proceedings, pro bono publico, precisely at ten o'clock in the morning Causes continued from the funnel sittings were, first called on, and the cirelessness of interested persons was evinced to a very disereditable de…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Saturday 2 September 1826 · page 3

A man, claiming a prerogative of freedom, was charged on Thursday with extracting an unknown quantity of porter from a cask which was lying on the King's Wharf. A sentry, who was on duty during Tuesday night, at the said…

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Police Reports. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 September 1826 · page 3

MONDAY, AUG. 28—John Browne, 14 years, charged with having stolen a hat from a man who was lying druak near the old Brickfield Hill, the prisoner was apprchended with the [?]t in his possession, and had been seen standing at the…

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CRIMINAL COURT—(Friday.)

The Australian · Saturday 2 September 1826 · page 3

Patrick Ford was put to the bar, capitally indicted, for burglariously breaking and entering in the night time, the dwelling-house of Mr. Throsby, on the 27th of-June last and stealing therefrom different…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Friday, September 1

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 September 1826 · page 3

John Ford as principal, and Felix M'Clinton as accessary after the f[?], were indicted for burglary and robbery in the dwelling-house of Charles Throsby, Ksq. at Bong Bong. The prisoner ford pleading guilty, Felix M'Clinton being put upon…

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Sherief's Office, August 28, 1826 In the Supreme Court. Rose v. Br[?]dley

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

ON Wednesday, the S xth of September, at 12 o'Clock at Noon, on the Promises, in Macquarie street, Parramatta, a Weather-boarded HOUSE, Shingled, containing 5 Rooms, and st[?]ding on an Allotment of 60 Rods…

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Sitting Magistrate—e. Wollstonecraft, Esq

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 6 September 1826 · page 2

AVERAGE PRICES AT THE LAST MARKET…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Wednesday 6 September 1826 · page 3

A free male subject, was charged on suspicion of being an accessary, to the last robbery in Captain Giliman's house. It appeared that the prisoner was in the service of a Mr. Morris, who desired the man to take some bags to…

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Police Reports. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 6 September 1826 · page 3

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30—Patrick Kelly, prisoner of the crown for life, charged with stealing a Government blanket, found wrapt round his body as he was ptssing out at the barrack gate this morning to a penal settlement for 2 years…

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CRIMINAL COURT—(Yesterday.)

The Australian · Wednesday 6 September 1826 · page 3

John Turner, alias Dailey, and Robert Kerr, were indicated for having in their possession a quantity of blue cloth, supposed to have been feloniously acquired. There were no evidence to prove that the…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Friday, September 1. The King against Galvin

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 6 September 1826 · page 3

In this case, Mr. ROEW rose to move an arrest of judgmetn, ant observed that the more he considered the objections, the most of them appearing on the record, which he conceived it his duty to take at the close of the case, on [?]…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Friday, Sept. 1

The Monitor · Friday 8 September 1826 · page 8

Patrick Ford, of Liverpool, free labourer, was indicted for burglariously entering on the night of the 27th of June last, the dwelling-house of Charles Throsby, Esq. of the same district, and stealing sundry property…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Saturday 9 September 1826 · page 3

Thomas Coates was brought up on Wednesday, in order that a certain thievish act, with the commission of which he stood charged, might undergo examination, and consequent decision for or against him, as the case might be…

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Police Reports. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1826 · page 3

SATURDAY, SEPT.2.—There was no businers of importance this day before the Bench. A few prisoners of the crown, charged with petty offences, were sent to the tread-[?] for short periods. We have to report on the case of free man,…

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CRIMINAL COURT—(Friday.)

The Australian · Saturday 9 September 1826 · page 3

Isaac South, was capitally indicted for the wilful murder [?] Win. Green—and Denis Moore, for adding and [?] Captain John [?] J. P. residing in the neighbour [?] of Windsor, recollected Sunday the 20th of August…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Tuesday, September 4

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1826 · page 3

William Turner and John Bates, were indicted for having in their possession a quantity of cloth, before feloniously stolen by one John Dent, from the stores of Messrs. Aspinu[?] Browne, and Co. Cha[?]-place, on the 11th of March last,…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Wednesday 13 September 1826 · page 3

Two assigned Government servants, one of them named Millwood, the other Dixon, but both answering to the christian cognomen of James, were confronted on Saturday with thier employer's who accused each of a breach…

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