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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1834

667 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 34

Matter Furnished by Our Reporters and Correspondents. Court of Commissioners of Enquiry, to Present the Governor with an Opinion on Claims to Crown Lands

The Sydney Monitor · Tuesday 15 April 1834 · page 2

The Court is a Jury Court of three, of which two of the Commissioners agreeing provided the Chairman be one of them, come to an opinion as to who, among two or more…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 17 April 1834 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser

Richard Candy and Timothy Rourke attached, to Messrs. Wright and Long's gang, at Miller's Point, were brought before the Magistrate, charged by the overseer…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 April 1834 · page 3

Margaret Farrell, the wife of a mariner now at sea, was charged under the following circumstances:—Mrs. Low stated, that the prisoner was left in her charge by her husband before his…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Monday 21 April 1834 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Herald

SATURDAY.—Thomas Sweeny, enveloped in a three bushel tack, which acted the part of an over-all, appeared to show cause why he should have got three sheets in the wind over night…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court—civil Side

The Australian · Monday 21 April 1834 · page 3

SATURDAY.—Judge Dowing and Burton took their seats in banco this morning. Exparte Perkins v. Dillon.—Before the business of the Court was entered into, Mr. Dillon moved…

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Supreme Court. Saturday, April 19. (Sittings in Banco.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 22 April 1834 · page 2

At 10 o'clock, Messrs[?] Justices DOWLING and BURTON took their seats on the Bench, the Chief Justice being absent in the interior, when judgment was pronounced in the following cases:—…

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Police

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 23 April 1834 · page 4

WEDNESDAY, 16.—William Grabam, a fees man was brought to the police office, charged with robbing Mr. Harrison, of George street, of a I pistol value ten shillings. The party slept in the same…

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Matter Furnished B[?] Our Reporters and Correspondents. Supreme Court, Civil Side

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 23 April 1834 · page 3

SATURDAY, APRIL. 19th.—Before Judges DOWLING and BURTON. M'Lean v. Blackett.—This was an action of assumpsit, brought to recover the value of a…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 24 April 1834 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser

George Kirk, a convict assigned to Dr. Neilson, was brought forward charged with harbouring one of the water nymphs belonging to Mrs. Howel's laundry…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Friday 25 April 1834 · page 3

WEDNESDAY.—Jane Tubbs, a little chubby rotund kind of personage, performed a graceful curve in making her way to the rostrum, to answer recharge of a charley, who deposed that over…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Monday 28 April 1834 · page 3

POLICE INCIDENTS.—FRIDAY.—Thomas Skinner, who looked the picture of hunger, was charged with expelling the cold overnight with copious [?] of [?] and while labouring under the…

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Police Incidents. the Convict System

The Sydney Herald · Monday 28 April 1834 · page 2

ROBBERIES BY THE GANG IN THE EMPLOY OF THE GOVERNMENT, ON THE SOUTH HEAD ROAD.—John Kinsela, Andrew Moore, and Michael Purcell alias…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1834 · page 3

John Lahey and Richard[?] Herring, the two-men who were captured on the Botany-road on Saturday night, were placed at the bar for examination yesterday morning. Constables Cunningham, Christie, and…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 1 May 1834 · page 2

COMMITTAL OF TWO DESPERADOES, PART OF A GANG OF BUSHRANGERS!— On Monday last, a full Bench of Magistrates were engaged during the major part…

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English Extracts. English Police. Mansion House

The Australian · Friday 2 May 1834 · page 4

William Kemp., a boy who has been a long time acquainted with the interior of Newgate, was charged with having deliberately walked into a shoemaker's shop…

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Police Office

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 3 May 1834 · page 2

TUESDAY, April 29 h.—Richard Harrison, charged with stealing a ring from Mrs. Murris, of York-street, and Bridget Flion, with receiving the same, knowing it to have been…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Thursday, May 1

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 May 1834 · page 2

The Court opened this day pursuant to adjournment, when after a considerable number of prisoners had been arraigned, and made their election of the Juries by which they would Severally be tried, the…

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