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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1829

324 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 17

(Domestic Intelligence continued.) Sydney Police

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 3 January 1829 · page 8

Sampson Fry, holding a ticket-of-leave, and Eleanor his wife, were charged with stealing from Mr. M'Leay, a quantity of property which was subsequently found in their possession…

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Supreme Criminal Court. WONDA—DEC. 29. (Fefore the Chief Justice.) The King against Messrs. John Raine, Edward Lee, and Richard Kemp. This was a prosecution instituted by His

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1829 · page 2

Majesty's ATTORNEY GENERAL, against the defendants, for contriving, and aiding the escape from the Colony, of one James Doran, then being a prisoner of the Crown…

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(Domestic Intelligence continued.) Sydney Police

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 5 January 1829 · page 8

Sampson Fry. holding a ticket-of-leave, and Eleaner his wife, were charged with stealing from Mr. M'Leay, a quantity of property which was subsequently found in their possession…

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Supreme Criminal Court. FRIDAY—JAN. 2nd. (BEFORE Mr. Justice Dowling.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1829 · page 2

John Payne and Edward Whalen were indicted for a robbery in the dwelling house of Malachy Ryan, at Appin, on the 15th September last, and Sarah Middleton, for…

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Criminal Court. Friday. Mr. Justice Dowling sat, this day to hear TRIALS

The Australian · Tuesday 6 January 1829 · page 2

John Payne and Edward Way in were indicted for a burglary in the dwelling house of William Byrne, a settler at West Bargo, and stealing therein various articles of…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Tuesday, Jan. 6th, 1829

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1829 · page 2

Their Honors, the CHIEF JULTICE and Mr. Justice DOWLING sat this morning to pass judgment on several prisoners convicted during the last Sessions…

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Criminal Court. Tuesday Judgements

The Australian · Friday 9 January 1829 · page 2

Two of the Honorable Judges, Mr. Chief Justice Forbes and Mr. Justice Dowling being this day in banco, The Attorney-General prayed judgments on the…

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Supreme Criminal Court

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 12 January 1829 · page 4

TUESDAY JAN. 6th.—Their Honors, the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Dowling, sat this morning to pass judgment on certain prisoners convicted during the last sessions…

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Police Incidents. Imminent Adventures

The Australian · Tuesday 13 January 1829 · page 3

Charles Smith, alias Gipsey Smith, was charged with being concerned in a disturbance in the public streets. To support the averment, there was a host of constables…

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Supreme Criminal Court

The Sydney Monitor · Tuesday 13 January 1829 · page 4

TUESDAY JAN. 6th.—Their Honors, the Chief Juntice and Mr. Justice Dowling, sat this morning to pass judgment on certain prisoners convicted during the last sessions…

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Presentment of the Grand Jury, Assembled at the Court of Quarter Sesions at Campbell Town

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1829 · page 3

WE, the Grand Jurors of our Sovereign Lord the King, PRESENT, that, in the execution of our duties, we have to notice that the gaol is not in a fit state for the confinement of prisoners; that it is damp in the…

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Police Incidents. Charge of Forgery

The Australian · Friday 16 January 1829 · page 3

A free man was brought up in custody at the Police Office, on Tuesday, on a charge of forgery. To substantiate this averment evidence was gone into at considerable…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Tuesday 20 January 1829 · page 4

Mary Marrington and James Morgan both free, were charged before the Police with robbery. It appeared in evidence, that on the…

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Highway Robbery and Murder

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 22 January 1829 · page 3

On Friday last, as three carts were travelling home from Sydney, on the Richmond road, about a mile and a half from South Cr[?]k, near Clydesdale, two men rushed…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Friday 30 January 1829 · page 3

Esther M. Guinness, the assigned married prisoner to a Sydney constable of that name was charged by her lord and master w[?] bring a drunken, disorderly character. There…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Tuesday 3 February 1829 · page 3

Thomas Reynolds was charged on an assignment of perjury. The accused had been an evidence on the preceding day, in a case of the King v. Gillmore, for illicitly retailing spirituous liquors…

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Law Report. Court of Chancery, August 31. in the Matter of the Act for Regulating Solicitous and Atto[?]neys

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 5 February 1829 · page 3

It will be recollected that his Lordship yesterday ordered a solicitor to be struck off the rolls of this Court, who had been previously struck off the rolls of the Court of King's Bench…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Friday 6 February 1829 · page 3

Sarah Rodger, free, was charged with robbery. It was stated by the presecutrix (a person named Burke) living in Castlereagh street, that a few evenings ago her house…

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Court Martial

The Australian · Friday 6 February 1829 · page 3

Yesterday, it was expected, Lieutenant Cox, of the 39th, would have entered on his defence to the charges preferred before a Court Martial last week, by Capt. Wright…

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Murder in Spain

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1829 · page 3

SEVILLE.—Juan Santoval, better known under the appeliation of Jio Juan (Uncle John,) a butcher of Seville, was passionately fond of shooting, and was in the habit of attending field sports in company…

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