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Courts & crime, 1834

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POLICE. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Monday 17 November 1834 · page 1

GENTLEMEN,—It is to be hoped that murdering a wife will no longer be considered a venial offence in this Colony, and that the sentence passed on…

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Police Intelligence

The Australian · Tuesday 18 November 1834 · page 3

SATURDAY—John Norman, a free man, was brought up on a warrant, charged by his employer Commissary Lamont, by whom he had been hired for a certain…

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Law Intelligence Supreme Court—criminal Side

The Australian · Tuesday 18 November 1834 · page 3

FRIDAY—Before Mr. Justice Dowling and a Military Jory. Joseph Wilks was indicted for forging and counter felting a certain order for the…

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Supreme Court Criminal Side. Before the Chief Justice and a Military Jury

The Sydney Times · Tuesday 18 November 1834 · page 2

Joseph Wilks stood indicted for forging an order purporting to be drawn by J. Nowland, and endorsed John White, for £7., at Bong Bong, in October 1833, with…

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Supreme Criminal Court. Saturday, November 15. (Before the Chief Justice and a jury of civil inhabitants)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 18 November 1834 · page 2

Robert Earl was indicted for stealing at Thornton, in the county of Gloucester, in the month of January last, two oxen the property of Ebenezer Knox…

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Police Office

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 19 November 1834 · page 2

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14.—Before Messrs. WILSON and JOHNSON. George M'Coy, a native of the Colony, apparently under nine years of age, was placed at the bar for…

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Matter Furnished by Our Reporters and Correspondents. Supreme Court.—criminal Side

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 19 November 1834 · page 2

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15.—Before Mr. JUSTICE BURTON and a Jury of Inhabitants. —John Kennedy was indicted for assaulting Nicholas Delaney, on the highway, near Penrith, on the 2nd…

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Supreme Criminal Court

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 20 November 1834 · page 2

This morning the three Judges sat for the purpose of passing sentences on the several prisoners, convicted before them during the present sittings of the Court…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court—criminal Side

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 20 November 1834 · page 2

Monday.—Before His Honor Mr. Justice Dowling and a Civil Jury. Abraham Maher stood indicted for feloniously and burglariously entering the dwelling-house of…

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Police Intelligence

The Australian · Friday 21 November 1834 · page 2

MONDAY.—Elisabeth Wood and Charlotte Lamb were brought up on a charge of robbing a person named March, of upwards of £4. In appeared from the evidence of…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court—criminalside Sentences

The Australian · Friday 21 November 1834 · page 2

The three Judges took their motion on the Bench on Tuesday, and the following prisoners convicted during the last Criminal Sessions were brought up for judgement…

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Supreme Court, Tuesday, November 18, 1834. (Before the three Judges)

The Sydney Times · Friday 21 November 1834 · page 2

The following prisoners were brought to receive sentence. James Cullen, convicted of an assault with an intent to commit an unnatural offence. This man…

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Police Office

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 22 November 1834 · page 3

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH.—Before Messrs. WILSON and JOHNSON. Richard Phillips, publican, Darling Harbour, ap peared to answer to a charge of harbouring runaway…

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Matter Furnished by Our Reporters and Correspondents. Supreme Court.—criminal Side

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 22 November 1834 · page 3

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18.—Before the THREE JUDGES. The following prisoners who had been convicted during the Sessions were brought up for sentence:—…

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Police Incident

The Sydney Herald · Monday 24 November 1834 · page 1

John Brathwaite, a Convict, assigned from the ship Heroine, to E. J. Keith, Esq. was brought forward under the following circumstances. The prisoner…

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The Lawyers Again. Horse Stealing. (Sittings at Nisi Prius at Guildhall, before Lord Denman and Common Juries.) BIRMINGHAM V. RIDER

The Sydney Herald · Monday 24 November 1834 · page 2

Saturday, June 28.—This action was brought to recover damages for false imprisonment. It appeared that the plaintiff had borrowed a horse of the…

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The Police, and Dr. Wardell's Murderers. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Monday 24 November 1834 · page 1

DEAR HERALD,—I perceive w[?] some surprise and regret your uncalled [?] for strictures in a recent Number of yo[?] Journal, on the inefficiency of the Police,…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court—criminal Side. Tuesday, November 18, 1834. in Banco

The Sydney Herald · Monday 24 November 1834 · page 2

Robert Smith and William Akers, privates of His Majesty's 17th Regiment, convicted of larceny. His Honor Mr. Justice Burton addressed the prisoners to the following effect:—Prisoners at…

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Court of King's Bench. (Sitting at Guildhall, before Lord Denman and Special Juries.)

The Sydney Herald · Monday 24 November 1834 · page 2

WARD AND ANOTHER V. NELLOR.— This action was brought by the plaintiffs, executors of the late Mr. Ward, who had been a Member for the city in several…

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Police Report. Saturday, November 23. (Bafore R. Stewart, Esq., Third Police Magistrate.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 25 November 1834 · page 2

Catherine Graham, an assigned servant to Serjeant Curran, was charged by her master with drunkenness and neglect of duty on the evening of Wednesday last. His Worship ordered her to pay a visit to Mrs…

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