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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1833

535 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 27

Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—civil Side

The Sydney Herald · Monday 6 May 1833 · page 2

THURSDAY.—Before Judge Burton and a Special Jury. Martin v. Munn.—This was an action of ejectment to recover possession of a piece of land situate…

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Court of Quarter Sessions. FRIDAY—3d May. (W. Foster, Esq. Chairman, and I. NICHOLSON, Esq. J. P)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1833 · page 2

John Maddox was indicted for stealing at Sydney, on the 16th of April, one silk handkerchief, value 3s. the property of William Sexton. The prosecutor was standing at the bar of a public-house,…

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Domestic Intelligence. Court of Quarter Sessions.e

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 8 May 1833 · page 2

The Court of Quarter Sessions adjourned on Saturday last to the 29th Instant. The following sentences were passed on the several prisoners convicted during the Sessions:—…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 9 May 1833 · page 3

Monday—Alexander Summers, an undersized little urchin, with a pimple decorated with bunches of fire brands, was put to the bar on a charge of leaving his master's premises without leave, first…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 9 May 1833 · page 3

Maria Sullivan, an assigned [?] servant to Mrs. Rogers, of Prince-street, was charged by her mistress with repeated nets of drunkenness, and when remonstrated with in the present instance…

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Court Oe Conscience, Dublin. Nicholas Furlong V.johb Shaw

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 9 May 1833 · page 2

Magistrate—Why do you summon Mr Shaw? Furlong—Sure he's an attorney, your Worship, and he done me, of course. I went, your Worship to the Insolvent Court to oppose one Yates, a…

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Court of Requests. Thursday, May 2. F. Stephen v. S. Plaice

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 9 May 1833 · page 3

This was an action brought to recover the sum of £9 18s. 4d. due on an attorney's bill, for business done in the year 1831. It appeared that the defendant laid claim to…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court. Wednesday, May, 1, 1833. [?] dem, Martin v. Muna

The Australian · Friday 10 May 1833 · page 3

This was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff, to recover certain land in Darling Harbour. The case had been once hied before Mr Justice Dowling, and a Special Jury, when a ver…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1833 · page 2

Henry Elkins, assigned to the Attorney General, was[?] brought forward, charged with insolence and refusing to receive, as slops, Parramatta[?] cloth trowsers, as being quite unfashionable. Their…

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Court of Quarter Sessions. Saturday, May 4. Before William Poster, Esq., Chairman, and W. M'Pherson, Esq., J. P.

The Currency Lad · Saturday 11 May 1833 · page 3

John Frier and Timothy Collins were indicted for conspiring, on the 28th February, to collect the cattle of Thomas Higgins, publican, of George-street, for the purpose of impounding them, and thereby…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Monday 13 May 1833 · page 2

THURSDAY.—Margaret M'Grath was placed at the bar, at the instigation of her loving spouse John, as she had thought fit to bolt from his residence, and take up her abode with a son of St…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1833 · page 2

SATURDAY, MAY 11. — James Murray, a prisoner of the crown, was brought up by his master charged with insolence when ordered to do a certain piece of work which was not to the…

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IMPOLICY Of keeping up large prisons and penitentiaries in England instead of using to its full extent the natural, safe, and economical gaol already formed in Van Diemen's Land

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1833 · page 3

At a meeting of Middlesex magistrates at Hick's-hall, Clerkenwell, on the 8th November, when the report of the new prison was read, it appeared that, during…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 16 May 1833 · page 3

Mary, Benson, assigned to Colonel Shadforth, was brought forward, charged with absconding from her master's service in the month of October last, and remaining illegally at large since…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 16 May 1833 · page 3

MONDAY—John M'Mahon, John Dixon, John Oldfield, and John Pamington, were charged with having been taken up in Kent-street, practising the last set of quadrilles with great vivacity. The…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—criminal Side

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 16 May 1833 · page 3

WEDNESDAY.—Before the Chief Justice and the usual Commission of seven Military Officers. William Jeffries and James Pearce, were jointly indicted for a highway robbery, putting in bodily…

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Supreme Court. WEDNESDAY, 15th MAY. Before His Honor the Chief Justice and a Military Jury

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 16 May 1833 · page 3

William Jeffreys and William Pierce, were jointly indicted for robbing on the highway, between Myrtle Creek and Bargo River, in the county of Camden, one James Turner, and taking…

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Sydney Police Intelligence

The Australian · Friday 17 May 1833 · page 1

Before F. Rossi and J. Nicholson Esquires. (Important to General dealers.) Mr. William Lewis Bowen appeared upon summons to answer for selling two gallons of rum, in a…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court

The Australian · Friday 17 May 1833 · page 3

Crown side Wednesday, before the Chief Justice and the usual commission of military officers. William Jeffries and James Pearce were jointly indicted for a highway robbery, putting in bodily…

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Sydney Police

The Currency Lad · Saturday 18 May 1833 · page 3

John Neal, free, was charged by constable Sutland, with lying on his back in George-street, and when he proffered him his assistance in furnishing him with a more comfortable lodging,…

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