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Courts & crime, 1834

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Illawarra Police Report. 23d JUNE, 1834, Before Messrs. GRAY, and C. O'BRIEN

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 July 1834 · page 3

Hugh Kennedy, retail shopkeeper, appeared before this court, by summons, to answer a charge of selling spirits, he not being duly licensed according to the Act 3rd William IV. No. 8…

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Matter Furnished by Our Reporters and Correspondents. Court of Quarter Sessions

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 26 July 1834 · page 2

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23rd.—Before a Jury of Military Officers. Mary Cooper was indicted for stealing one watch, the property of John Rose, of Windsor,…

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Court of Quarter Sessions, Wednesday, July 23. (Before Willian Foster, Esq. (Chairman), and William Macpherson, Esq., J. P. and the usual Juries.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 July 1834 · page 2

John Morrison was indicted for stealing a showl from Mrs. Elizabeth Clarke, at Sydney, on the 10th June last. The prisoner snatched the shawl from the prosecutrix in Castlereagh-street, between 7 and 8…

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Court of Claims and House of Assembly. We have to apologise in the writer of the following Letter, for not inserting his Letter earlier through press of matter.) to the Editor of the Sydney Monitor

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 26 July 1834 · page 4

SIR, THE Claims-to-land Act amendment Bill, which is to be read a second time this day, was generally understood to have for its object…

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Police Office, Sydney, 21st July, 1834. the Ann Jamison Wreck

The Sydney Herald · Monday 28 July 1834 · page 4

NOTICE is hereby given, that Tenders will be [?]ved of this Office, addressed to the First Police Magistrale.[?] Thursday the 31st inslant, nom per[?]s willing to…

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Court of Quarter Sessions[?] Monday, July 28th

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

(Before Wm. FOSTER, (Chairman), James MUDIE, and Robert JOHNTTONE, Esqrs. P.P., and a Jury of Civil Inhabitants.) Mr. Edward Joseph Keith, was indicted for…

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Police Office

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 30 July 1834 · page 2

THURSDAY, JULY 24TH.—Before Mr. Slade,—Robert Simone, free, residing at the corner of Goulburn and Sussex-street, was brought up under the following circumstances…

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Court of Quarter Sessions

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 30 July 1834 · page 2

SATURDAY, JULY 26TH 1834.—Before the Chairman and Messrs. Lamb, and Rankin, sitting in Summary Jurisdiction. Richard Lewis, a [?]away from the…

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Matter Furnished by Our Reporters and Correspondents. Court of Commissioners For granting compensation those parties whose property has been injured by Alterations and Improvements in the Roads and Streets of the Colony

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 30 July 1834 · page 2

Before Messrs. A. B. SPARKE, W. MACPHERSON, and T. WALKER, and a Jury of Twelve Inhabitants. MONEY JULY [?] This Court was opened…

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Police Intelligence

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 31 July 1834 · page 2

A female prisoner of the crown, married to, a free man, was detected by a constable between 11 and 12 o'clock on Tuesday evening, absent from her home, and tippling at the "Dolphin [?]" in…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 31 July 1834 · page 2

Flagrant case of Villainy.—On Monday last Robert Symons, a decent-looking, grey headed old man, residing in Goulburnstreet, was placed at the bar of the…

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British Police

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 31 July 1834 · page 4

MANSION-HOUSE.—Two very rough fellows, who go in Billingsgate-market by the names of Catsmeat and Winkles, and said they didn't know themselves by any other,…

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British Law. Arches Court, Jan. 11

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 31 July 1834 · page 4

SUSPENSION OF A PROCTOR.—Sir John Nicholl, before proceeding to any other business, observed that a complaint, supported by affidavit, had been made against one of…

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Court Ot Quarter Sessions. Tuesday, July 29

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 31 July 1834 · page 2

Present, WILLIAM FOSTER, (Chairman), and THOMAS BARKER, Esq J. P. The court sat this morning in its summary jurisdiction, for trial of prisoners of the crown…

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Court of Commissioners, For granting compensation to parties whose property may be encroached upon, or injured by public improvements

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 31 July 1834 · page 2

A. B. Spark, William M'Pherson, and Thomas Walker, Esqs., Commissioners…

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Police Office

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 2 August 1834 · page 2

TUESDAY, JULY 29—BEFORE MR. WINDEYER.—John Smith, assigned Servant in the employ of Captain Biddulph, SUSSEX street, was put to the bar. Captain [?]lph deposed, that on Saturday…

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Police Incidents

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

Mary Rooney, a virago of 60 years old, was brought before the Bench by her master, the superintendent of the Hulk, inasmuch as the said Mary bestowed many attentions upon a "dashing (not white)…

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(From our Hunter's River Correspondent.) Newcastle Police Report, July 22nd, 1834. Before Surgeon Brooks, J. P.

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

Mr. Simon Kemp, publican, appeared to prefer a charge against constable Rouse, for perjury, which the Justice refused to hear Mr. Kemp then said, if he had sworn as Rouse had done, he…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Friday, August 1. (Before the Chief Justice, and a Jury of Civil Inhabitants.)

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

Thomas Connell was indicted for stealing at Illawarra, one horse, ot the value of £8, the property of the Reverend Frederick Wilkinson. The prosecutor deposed that…

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Police Incident[?]

The Sydney Herald · Monday 4 August 1834 · page 2

A man named Townsend was picked up by the police on Wednesday last, on suspicion of being a runaway, and whom, on being interrogated, turned out to be an…

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