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Courts & crime, 1833

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 28 November 1833 · page 2

SATURDAY.—Robert Milne, matter, or acting master of the schooner Columbine, appeared in Court on information of Mr. Jilks, chief constable, for having refused to remove that vessel from the…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—criminal Side

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 28 November 1833 · page 2

FRIDAY.—Before Judge Burton, and a Civil Jury. Patrick Dougall was indicted for having on the 26th day of July last, entered the dwelling-house…

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Supreme Court. Monday, November 25. Before Chief Justice FORBES and a Milit[?]ry Jury

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 28 November 1833 · page 2

Mary Ann Cummi[?]gs was indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury in the Police Office, on the 25th day of March, 1833. Charles Windyer, Esq deposed—I am a Justice…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court—crown Side

The Australian · Friday 29 November 1833 · page 3

TUESDAY.—Before Mr. Justice Burton, and a Civil Jury. The King on the information of Roger Therry, Esq., of the Court of Requests against Mr, John…

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Domestic Intelligence. Supreme Court, Criminal Side

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 30 November 1833 · page 2

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH.—Before the CHIEF JUSTICE and the usual Military Commission. Patrich Matheu's was indicted for wilful…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Monday 2 December 1833 · page 1

MONDAY.—Mary Morgan, an assigned servant to Mrs. Frances M'Carthy, was brought forward charged by constable Smith, with being drunk and disorderly in the streets, on Sunday evening last…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—criminal Side

The Sydney Herald · Monday 2 December 1833 · page 1

FRIDAY.—Before Judge Burton, and a Civil Jury. John Drake, Charles Drakeford, Robert Wilson, William Wallace, and William Batchelor, stood…

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Attempt at Highway Robbery and Murder

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 3 December 1833 · page 2

As Mr. De Backer, of the Commissariat Department, was returning to his residence at New Town on the evening of Thursday last, when opposite Mr. Graham's fence, a man, armed with a big…

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Atrocious Murder. Coroner's Inquest, Parramatta

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 4 December 1833 · page 2

ON MONDAY, the 18th of November, a Coroner's Inquest was held, at Mr Armstrong's, licensed vietualler, on the body of an aged female, a Mrs Martha Condron, a brief…

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Atrocious Murder [?] Bathurst, Monday, 2nd December, 1833. [From a Correspondent.]

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 5 December 1833 · page 2

The annals of crime do not present an occurrence more diabolical and sanguinary, than that we are about to record. A respectable young emigrant named John Walters, a bootmaker, resided at…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—civil Side. in Banco

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 5 December 1833 · page 2

MONDAY.—Septon v. Colcroft and others.—This trial took place on the 30th October last, in the Supreme Court, before Judge Dowling and a Special Jury, when verdict was given for…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court-clvil Side. (In Banco.)

The Australian · Friday 6 December 1833 · page 2

MONDAY.—This day the three Judges took their seals in banco pursuant to adjournment, when his honour the Chief Justice proceeded to give judgment in the cases which stood over for [?]…

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Barbarous Murder

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 7 December 1833 · page 2

BATHURST, DEC. 2, 1833.—About 2 o'clock on the morning of Saturday last, a bushranger arrived breathless at the quarters of the officer commanding the Mounted Police, and reported,…

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Crime Police Committee

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 7 December 1833 · page 4

THIS committee closed its inquiries on Tuesday, the 23d instant (July); and the committee is to meet, in order to agree on the Report, the 31st of this month. When…

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Domestic Intelligence. Supreme Court, Criminal Side

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 7 December 1833 · page 2

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4TH. Before the three JUDGES George Watson was brought before the Court on a Writ of Habeds Corpus, directed…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Monday 9 December 1833 · page 1

WEDNESDAY.—John Macdonald, free, was charged by Reuben Hannan, of the Roebuck Inn, on the Botany road, with stealing a centre-bit, his property, on Sunday morning last. That active…

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Trials in the Supreme Court

The Sydney Herald · Monday 9 December 1833 · page 1

The following official documents were recently printed by order of the Legislative Council. Two things are worthy of special remark;—first, that out of the six hundred and sixty-one defended…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—civil Side

The Sydney Herald · Monday 9 December 1833 · page 1

TUESDAY.—Longeville v. Brigstock.—This was a cause tried before Mr. Justice Dowling and a Special Jury, on the 1st day of November last, when verdict was given for plaintiff, damages £30…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court—civil Side

The Australian · Monday 9 December 1833 · page 3

We have been Obligingly favoured with the minutes of the following elaborate judgment, which, as it determines a question of great importance in this Colony…

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Supreme Court. Monday, December 9[?] (Before the Chief Justice, and the usual Military Jury.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 10 December 1833 · page 2

Anthony Hitchcock, alias Hay, John Pool[?], James Riley, John Perry, David Jones, and James Ryan, were indicted for stealing on the 5th November, 1833, in the dwelling-house of Mr. James Mudie,…

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