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Courts & crime, 1827

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Police Report. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 6 June 1827 · page 2

The case of Taylor, Dobie, Wilson, R[?]binson, Browne, and Johnson, the prisoners who were concerned with Mich[?]el Coogan in the attempted piratical seizure of the…

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CRIMINAL COURT.—(Friday)

The Australian · Wednesday 6 June 1827 · page 3

John Emerson and Michael Cogan, convicted of a forgery on the Bank of Australia, were placed at the bar to receive judgment. The Court pronounced sentence of Death on the…

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Police Report. PARRAMATTA

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Friday 8 June 1827 · page 3

SATURDAY, JUNE.—John M[?]abe, [?]gued servant to William Cox, Esq. of Richmond, taken up at Longbottom on [?]picion of being a runaway. The…

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Police Report. WINDSOR

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Monday 11 June 1827 · page 3

THURSDAY, MAY.—Robert M'Clusky was charged that he had stolen sundry articles of wearing apparel. A knife found in his possession was particularly identified…

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Law Intelligence. Court of Common Pleas

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Monday 11 June 1827 · page 4

RICHARDSON v. FRY.—This was an action to recover compensation in damages for the injury received by the plaintiff, in consequence of the seduction of his wife by the…

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Supreme Civil Court. Friday, June 8. [?] v. KLENSENDORLFFE

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Monday 11 June 1827 · page 2

[?] was an action of trover brought by the plaintiff to recover possession [?] lost by him to the defendant at cards, on or about the 10th of January, 1826. On the…

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The Murder at Illawrra

The Australian · Wednesday 13 June 1827 · page 3

Some additional particulars have reached us since our last publication, respecting the murder of the man Austin; in the district of Illawarra. This mun, when assigned to Mr. Spearing, found himself in the midst of prisoners who were…

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Police Report. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 13 June 1827 · page 3

MONDAY, JUNE 11.---Ann Conroy was brought before the Bench, at the instance of [?] master, for repeated [?]solence, and for [?]pping out occasionally all night, the slut…

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SUPREME COURT.—(Monday.) Klensendoriffe v. Oakes

The Australian · Wednesday 13 June 1827 · page 3

This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant, for slander. The images were laid at 500/. The defendant pleaded the general issue of not guilty, upon which issue was joined. The case having been opened by…

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Supreme Civil Court. Monday, June 11, 1827. KLENSENDORLFFE V. OAKES

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 13 June 1827 · page 3

This was an action for slander. The information contained seven counts. The circumstances of the cake were briefly these. Sometime about the month of November,…

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Winsdor Police

The Monitor · Friday 15 June 1827 · page 1

TUESDAY, MAY 29.—David Sexton was charged with a degree of insubordination. Sexton lives as his master lives, and does not work too hard; here's the point; he is by trade a shoemaker, and does not like handling…

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SUPREME COURT.—(Yesterday.) Bushel v. Rose

The Australian · Friday 15 June 1827 · page 3

This was an action brought for a trespass. The parties in this case, two very old settlors at Wilberforce, ware the proprietors of lands, which adjoined each other; and it having being resolved by the defendant, to erect a fence at…

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Supreme Civil Court. Thursday, June 14

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Monday 18 June 1827 · page 2

Bushell v. Rose.---This was an action for a trespass committed by the plaintiff, on the lands of the defendant, at Wilbefore. Verdict for the defendant. Byrne [?]. Dillon.---This was an action to recover a…

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Cattle Stealing

The Australian · Wednesday 20 June 1827 · page 3

Bathurst seems to be the country where cattle [?] thrive, and carry on their exploits in a wholesale way. One man has recently been detected with a tolerably extensive herd most of which has been collected by fraud and theft…

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Police

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 20 June 1827 · page 3

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.---It will be recollected, that a short time ago, a family of the name of Grindall, residing in Judd-place, New-road, made some very eccentric exhibitions at the [?]ow-street police-officer,…

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Police Report. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 20 June 1827 · page 3

SATURDAY, JUNE 16.—Mrs. Mary Baxter, was brought before their Worships, charged, on the complaint of a person named Flood, the owner of a house in…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Friday 22 June 1827 · page 3

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20.—John Dooley, free, was charged with assaulting a black man, with intent to rob him, in the ward in which he was confined, by constable…

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Commissionership of the Court Requests

The Australian · Friday 22 June 1827 · page 2

The unhappy visitation of illness with which Mr. Holland is afflicted, will, it is now pretty generally understood, raider necessary a change in his department of the Request. We should hardly think that Mr. Holland would…

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Supreme Cibil Court. Wednesday, June 20th. JAMES v. HOWE

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Friday 22 June 1827 · page 3

This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant, Mr. Robert Howe, Editor and proprietor of the Sydney Gazette, for the publication of a libel…

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Supreme Court, -- June 19

The Gleaner · Saturday 23 June 1827 · page 3

The attention of the Court was engaged the whole of this day, in investigating the merits of an action, "Josephson" against. "Levey," which, from the notoriety of the…

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