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Courts & crime, 1835

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Police Office

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 18 July 1835 · page 2

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15—Before the three Police Magistrates. Mr. F. C. Haswell, Editor of the Sydney Gazette, and Messrs. Luing, tree and W. Watt, holding…

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Police Report. Wednesday July 15. 1835

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 July 1835 · page 3

Mary Pearson, assigned to her husband, residing at the Surry Hills, having a very respectable appearance, was found drunk, exposing her person, and making use of…

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

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 18 July 1835 · page 2

THURSDAY, JULY 16—Before the THREE JUDGES IN BANCO. Houston v. Stephens and another.—When this case was called on, the Solicitor-General said, he…

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Court of Requests

The Sydney Herald · Monday 20 July 1835 · page 4

Yesterday a person named Cooper summoned a man named Driscol, an emerald "gem" of the first water. Commissioner—What is the nature of your demand…

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Police Incidents. the Australian Flour Company V. the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Herald · Monday 20 July 1835 · page 2

BEFORE THE THREE PAID POLICE MAGISTRATES.—Mr. Frederick Crew Haswell, free, William Watt, a prisoner of the Crown, bolding a Ticket-of-Leave for the District…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court-civil Side. Before Mr. Justice Dowling and Assessors

The Sydney Herald · Monday 20 July 1835 · page 2

HAY V. GORDON.—This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant, Storekeeper at the Female Factory, Paramatta, to recover the sum of £60, under the following circumstances:—…

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Police Report. Saturday July 18, 1835

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 21 July 1835 · page 3

Johanna Fitzgibbon, and Bridget King, assigned to Mrs. Stevenson, Was charged by Colonel Wilson with highly disorderly conduct—the Bench sentenced…

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Supreme Court. Saturday, July 18. (Sittings in France, before the three Judges.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 21 July 1835 · page 3

Chadley v. Wyatt—In this action, which had been brought to recover compensation for architec[?]ral services, and which was tried about five weeks ago,…

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Police Office

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 22 July 1835 · page 2

MONDAY, JULY 20.—Before Messrs. WILSON WINDEYER. Jurnes Taylor, Thomas Beard, and Riched Darby, assigned to Mr. Wood, George-street, we…

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

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 22 July 1835 · page 2

SATURDAY, JULY 18th, 1835.—Before the THREE JUDGES, in Banco. Chadley V. Wyatt.—The matter involved in this suit, having by consent been turned into a special…

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Daring Robbery, and Attempt at Murder

The Colonist · Thursday 23 July 1835 · page 5

ON the night of the 16th. instant, at Barnes' inn, on the new, line of road from Sydney, twenty-four miles on this side of Bathurst, Mr. Thom, a respectable emigrant settler, on his way to…

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Court and Fashionable Life

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 23 July 1835 · page 4

According to the Gazette of Tuesday letters patent have passed the great seal granting the dignity of a Baron and vis, count to the Right Hon. Sir C. M. Sutton,…

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Police Report. Tuesday July 20, 1835

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 23 July 1835 · page 3

Elizabeth Guardside, assigned to Mrs. Oakely, who pictured her character in such a way, as not to admit of a momen'ts doubt of her being guilty of absenting herself from…

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Court of Quarter Sessions. Sydney, July 21st. 1835

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 23 July 1835 · page 3

Elizabeth Nock and Ann Willis (two of the female emigrants per ship David Scott) were placed at the bar, charged with stealing sundry shop goods, the…

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Song. I Called Her Mrs. Thurlow!—or, the Accommodating Witness. (A Scene in the Supreme Court.)

The Colonist · Thursday 23 July 1835 · page 7

I call'd her Mrs. Thurlow, When I saw her in his house, Although I knew they were not bound By matrimonial vows:…

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Police Report. Thursday, July 23rd. 1835

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 July 1835 · page 3

Ann Lee, whose jet black hair had be[?]u recently trimmed by the barber, "free of expense," at Mrs. Gordon's school of reform, was charged by Mrs. Satter with…

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Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Committee on Police. May 18, 1835

The Sydney Herald · Monday 27 July 1835 · page 2

Committee-appointed to enquire into and report upon the establishment and strength of the Police Force in all its blanches, to what extent it may be expedient to maintain…

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Police Report. Thursday, July 23rd. 1835

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 28 July 1835 · page 3

Elizabeth Collins, f[?]ee, whose bloated appearance evidently showed she was a most habit[?]al drunkard: and the dreadful nervous state of this miserable woman…

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Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Committee on Police. (Continued from our last.) Robert Scott, ESQ. J. P., called in and examined

The Australian · Tuesday 28 July 1835 · page 4

The district of St. Patrick's Plains extends from Jerry's Plains on the west, to Black Creek on the cast; and from the Wollombi on the sout, to Captain Black's…

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Police Office. July 23Rd, 1835.—Before Mr. STEWART

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 29 July 1835 · page 2

Betsy Ackland, seven years assigned ts Mrs. Martha Redhall, Illawarra, was charged by her mistress with refusing to leave Sydney, and go to Illawarra; she had come from Parramatta three or…

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