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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1829

324 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 17

Police Incidents

The Australian · Tuesday 10 February 1829 · page 3

George Marshall, free, was charged with acts of vagrancy. The prisoner was seen between one and two o'clock in the morning, stretched in a kennul, by a constable, who…

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Horrible Murder

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 12 February 1829 · page 3

LIMERICK SEPTEMBER 13.—A murder of almost unparalleled atrocity was perpetrated in this country at an early hour on Thursday morning last. Jeremiah Hayes,…

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English Police

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 12 February 1829 · page 4

[?]-STEET—Mr. Co[?], the celebrated anatonist, and the Res[?]rroctionists—On Saturday evening, directly after the business was over, and the Magistrates about retiring, Valentine…

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Mutiny and Murder. (From the Glasgow Free Press of September 13.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 12 February 1829 · page 3

At an advanced hour to-day we were put in possession of the following particulars of a case of mutiny at sea, attended with murder and the loss of the vessel:—…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Friday 13 February 1829 · page 3

A man named Bartholomew Flynn, free,, was charged with filching grapes. The prosecutor, Mr.Brown of George street, stated that on Monday night he was roused from his bed by the…

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NEWCASTLE. Samuel Wright Esq., Police Magistrate, (late Capt. in the Buffs) AND Mr. D. F. Mackie, late Superintendent of Convicts &c., at same place

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 16 February 1829 · page 5

We have had letters anonymously signed, lying past for a long time, which we hesitated to publish until [?] statements contained in them were confirmed by spectuble testimony. These letters we received…

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NEWCASTLE. Samuel Wright Esq., Police Magistrate, (late Capt. in the Buffs) AND Mr. D. F. Mackie, late Superintendent of Convicts &C., at same place

The Sydney Monitor · Tuesday 17 February 1829 · page 5

We have letters anonymously signed, lying past as for a long time, which we hesitated to publish until the statements contained in them were confirmed by respectable testimony. Those letters we received…

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Police Incident

The Australian · Friday 27 February 1829 · page 3

CASE EXTRORDINARY.—A District Constable, named Hamilton, was brought before the Bench of Magistrates, charged, on the oath of District Constable Small, with being…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Tuesday 3 March 1829 · page 3

SPIRIT SELLING WITHOUT LICENSE.—John Taylor appeared on Tuesday to a [?] laying to his account the retailing of spirituous liquors without a license. In support of the charge…

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Supreme Court. Monday, March 2

The Australian · Tuesday 3 March 1829 · page 3

This morning their Honors (the three Judges) sat in banco to decide motions; the most important of which was, one relative to the transportation of Sergeant Baxter, from this Colony to…

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Supreme Court. Monday, March 2

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 5 March 1829 · page 2

The Supreme Court resumed its sittings for the present term this morning, and sat in Banco to hear moti[?]s. His Majesty's Commission, appointing…

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Criminal Court

The Australian · Friday 6 March 1829 · page 3

Before the Honorable the Chief Justice, James Haynes and John Williams were indicted for an assault and robbery on Sarah Byfield, and putting her in bodily fear…

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Lieut. Cox's Court Martial

The Australian · Friday 6 March 1829 · page 2

Motives of propriety have hitherto prevented out redeeming the pledge we offered in one or two of our late publications, respecting the proceedings of the Court…

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Abuses in the Sydney Gaol. To the Editor of The Australian

The Australian · Friday 6 March 1829 · page 2

SIR—Conceiving, as I do, that it becomes the duty of every man, no matter what his rank or condition, to avail himself of the invaluable privileges bestowed on the members of every…

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English Law Intelligence. Extraordinary Case of Murder

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1829 · page 3

Joseph Pugh, John Cox the younger, and Robert Cox, were severally indicted, charged with the wilful murder of James Harrison, on the 17th of July, 1827; and John Cox the elder, and Ann…

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Supreme Criminal Court. FRIDAY, 6th. (Before the Chief Justice.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1829 · page 2

Arthur Hughes was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, Margaret, at Windsor, on the 18th of Dec. last. The ATTORNEY GENERAL having stated…

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Criminal Court

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 9 March 1829 · page 3

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4.—James Carroll was indicated for robbing the house of Edward Welsh, a book-binder, of Phillip-street, Sydney, of various articles, his property. The prosecutor…

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Original Court

The Australian · Tuesday 10 March 1829 · page 3

This morning his Honor the Chief Justice took his seat on the Bench, when Arthur Hughes was arraigned for the wilful murder of Margaret, his wife, on the 18th day of December, at Windsor…

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The Sydney Gaol. To the Editor of The Australian

The Australian · Tuesday 10 March 1829 · page 2

SIR,—I read with feelings of satisfaction a letter signed "A Citizen," in your independent Journal of yesterday; and I find by the Sydney Gazette of this day, that "the galled jade has winced" at an…

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Supreme Court. Civil Side—monday

The Australian · Tuesday 10 March 1829 · page 3

Before the Honorable the Chief Justice, John Busby and Wm. Jemmett Browne, Esquires, Assessors. Jones v.—merchant.—This was an action…

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