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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1827

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Police Report. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Monday 12 November 1827 · page 2

Thomas M'Manus was brought before the Bench, charged with threatening a fellow workman with putting him in the way of requiring a doctor. It appeared that the…

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Supreme Criminal Court. THURSDAY, Nov. 8

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Monday 12 November 1827 · page 2

James Lawrence aged 23, [?] John Landsdowne, aged 25, prisoner of the Crown and Luke [?] aged 24, prisoner of the Crown were indicted for killing a bullock,…

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Police Report. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 14 November 1827 · page 2

FRIDAY.—Mary Ann Stamper was charged [?] being a runaway from Van Diemen's Land. [?] Wilmot deposed that the prisoner is a Scotswoman, and a dressmaker,…

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CRIMINAL COURT.—(Friday.)

The Australian · Wednesday 14 November 1827 · page 3

William Turnbull was indicted for stealing a number of dollars, the property of Thomas Foreman. Verdict Guilty. Patrick Goodman was found guilty of stealing a…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Monday, November 12

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 14 November 1827 · page 2

Thomas Hudson, aged 30, prisoner of the Crown, and Richard Snead, aged 30, prisoner of the Crown, were indicted for a highway robbery on the person of Joseph Wilks, at…

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Court of Exchequer.—westminister, July 4. Support of a Wife

The Australian · Wednesday 14 November 1827 · page 3

Emery v. Emery.—This was an action in which the plaintiff, who is father to the defendant's wife, sought to recover of the defendant a certain sum of money, claimed by him for the board and lodging of the defendant's wife. Mrs…

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Police Report. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Friday 16 November 1827 · page 3

TUESDAY.—John Dexter and Charles Houldsworth, two wicked taylors, were accused by their master with extreme indolence, and during a period of 12 months which…

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Criminal Court (Wednesday.)

The Australian · Friday 16 November 1827 · page 3

William Lan downe was, put to the bar, charged with stealing in a dwelling house, property above the value of 10s. The indictment contained two counts.—the first setting forth the house to be in the occupation of Mary Dillon: and…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Wednesday, November 14

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Friday 16 November 1827 · page 3

William Landsdown, aged 48, prisoner of the Crown, was indicted under the Statute, for stealing in a dwelling-house, property above the value of 40s. The ATTORNEY GENERAL stated the case…

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New Court. (Before the Recorder.) Extraordinary Indictment

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Friday 16 November 1827 · page 4

Mary Carlow, a pretty-looking woman stood indicted for stealing 10 bank-notes for 10/. each 10 ditto 51. ditto; 10 ditto 21. ditto; 10 ditto 11. ditto; 10 sovereigns;…

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Police Report. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Monday 19 November 1827 · page 3

David Frew, [?] of a road party, with 5 of his gang, were put to the bar for not having reported themselves on their arrival in Sydney. It appeared that the prisoners had been…

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Tasmanian News. Criminal Court, Launceston, Oct. 23

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Monday 19 November 1827 · page 3

Thomas Sharkey was tried for stealing a bullock, the property of Mr. William Field. It appeared that some [?] sent by Mr. Field to George Town for the supply of…

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Australian Agricultural Company. Report, Read at the Third Annual General Court of Proprietors, Held at the Office of the Company, No. 12, King's Arms Yard, London, the 26Th of January, 1827. John Smith, Esq. M: P. in the Chair

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Monday 19 November 1827 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—Since the last Annual General Court of Proprietors, a Special General Court has been held, which afforded the Directors an opportunity to present a short account of the progress of…

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Police Report. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 21 November 1827 · page 3

SATURDAY.—Thomas Anderson, a free subject, brought forward charged with being found drunk a the door of a constable's house, and with resisting his authority by…

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CRIMINAL COURT.—(Monday.)

The Australian · Wednesday 21 November 1827 · page 3

Jonathan Carrington, William Reid, and John Charters, were severally charged with burglary. The Attorney-General, having briefly opened the case proceeded to call witnesses: from whose…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Before the Chief Justice, Monday, Nov. 19th

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 21 November 1827 · page 3

William Reynolds, aged [?] free, was indicted for stealing a mare and [?] the property of Michael Power, at Wilberforce, on the 21st of July last. It appeared in evidence, that a man named Michael…

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Horrid Murder

The Australian · Friday 23 November 1827 · page 4

HUNTINGDON, JULY 4.—A more atrocious and uparalleled instance of human butchery has seldom been recorded in modern, times (Weare's, perhaps, excepted,) than that which took place in the neighbourhood of this town yesterday…

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Police Report. SYDNEY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Friday 23 November 1827 · page 3

TUESDAY, Nov. 20.—Wm. Wright appeared to answer to a summons for abusive and threatening language towards Mr. James Harris, I appeared that the defendant was an industrious vender of pies…

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CRIMINAL COURT.—(Wednesday.)

The Australian · Friday 23 November 1827 · page 3

Joseph and Thomas West, a father and his son were indicted, the former as a principal, and the latter as an accessary, in stealing one bullock, value 51., the property of Mr. Samuel Hassall…

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Supreme Criminal Court. TUESDAY, Nov. 20. Broke the Chief Justice

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Friday 23 November 1827 · page 2

Andrew Dunn and Thomas Shanaghan were indicted for stealing 10 head of cattle, the property of Joshua John Moore, Esq. The information contained three counts, laying…

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