Police Report
ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION. — Thomas Blake was placed at the bar, charged with discharging a loaded pistol at Mr. William Kempton, of Clarence street…
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Police Incidents
Monday, December 5.—Thomas Field, for keeping bad company, and solacing himself with the rum buttle, was sent to the mill for 7 days. William Christopher, absenting himself from his…
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J. T. Smeathman, Esq. Coroner for Sydney, and an unusually respectable Jury, with C. Prout, Esq. for their foreman, assembled at the sign of the Punch Bowl, in Cumberland-street, at…
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On Saturday last, an application was made to Mr. Charlton of Cumberland-street, Rocks, by a person who was erecting a new building, to permit the labourers to draw water from…
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Hill versus Roberts.—In our last Police Report an account appeared of the result of a skirmish between the above parties, when the present plaintiff and her son were held to bail for…
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Monday, Dec. 12.âDennis Horrigan was charged with lying on his back in George-street jovially drunk, and chaunting forth the creed, to the great scandal of the constabulary, who threatened to gag his…
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Charles Henry Simpson was charged with being accessory to the robbery at Mr. Davies's, on the Church-hill, as detailed in our paper some time back. The only evidence tending to connect…
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Monday, Dec. 19.âSarah Satcliff, an ungrateful hussy, with the rotundity of a rum puncheon, was charged with having an inveterate hankering after the male sex; factory fare for one month…
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CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES.—MARCH OF RUM! William Wakely, an assigned servant to the Rev. MR. Therry, was accused by a constable with celebrating the season in a very unseasonable manner—…
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GINGER- BEER- EFFERVESCENCES.— Mistress Kitty Pickering, of p[?]g[?] repu[?], appeared to answer the hundred and first charge of assault upou her lord and master, m[?]ster C. Pickering,…
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