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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1835

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Court of Requests. Thursday, December 3

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 December 1835 · page 3

Solom[?]n vs. Martin.—The plaintiff sought to recover £18s. the balance of an unsettled account. The defendant put in a receipt for £28s.granted by the…

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Matter Furnished by Our Reporters and Correspondents. Police Office

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 5 December 1835 · page 2

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER., 2ND Before Mr. WINDEYER. Ann R[?]yn ldr middle aged woman was convicted under the New Vagrant Act of having no…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Monday 7 December 1835 · page 2

THURSDAY.—A settler, at Cook's River, was charged with melting twenty-five fowls into good hard Spanish Dollars. It appeared that prisoner resided within a short…

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Van Diemens Land. Supreme Court. Friday, Nov. 13

The Sydney Herald · Monday 7 December 1835 · page 2

The Attorney General filed the answer of Mr. Melville to the interrogatories put in on Tuesday last, and moved that they should be read, the answers were then read—by them Mr. Melville…

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The Sydney Herald. Monday, December 7, 1835. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Appendix to the Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Committee on Police and Gaols. Report from the First Police Magistrate of Sydney to His Excellency the Governor, relative to the Policy of that Town and District. (Continued.)

The Sydney Herald · Monday 7 December 1835 · page 2

The whole of this accommodation, viz., a new public office, which might be called the head of central office; two additional offices for clerks; a convenient, and at the same time, a strong store;…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 8 December 1835 · page 3

Thomas Brindley, free, was charged by Wardsman John Armstrong, of the Sydney Police, with drunkenness and assaulting him in the execution of his duty…

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

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 9 December 1835 · page 3

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7.—Before Messrs. FOSTER, and J. CAMPBELL, Jun, and a Military Jury. John Wright, a seaman belonging to the back William, stood charged with stealing on the 23rd…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 10 December 1835 · page 3

A prisoner of the Crown, whose name we could not hear, was put to the bar under the following circumstances: William Elkins, Constable of the Market, stated that on Saturday…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 December 1835 · page 3

William Flliott, assigned to A. B. Sparke, Esq., was charged by Mary S.ep[?]ens, [?]is housekeeper, with unlock ing her door, entering the room, and…

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

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 12 December 1835 · page 2

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9.—Before Messrs: FOSTER and A. B. SPARK and a Civil Jury. William Co[?]lan stood charged with ass[?]lling &c, in October last, a child named Jane Ogden…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Monday 14 December 1835 · page 2

WEDNESDAY.—Mary Thompson, with a face of the most expensive description, was handed to the foram on the charge of being as usual. The constable who had found her board and…

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Attempt to Murder the King of the French

The Sydney Herald · Monday 14 December 1835 · page 2

Such of the Paris papers as appeared on Tuesday, the second day of the July anniversary, have reached its by express. They were sent off from Paris at the hour…

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Original Correspondence. the Mounted Police. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Monday 14 December 1835 · page 4

GENTLEMEN—Unavoidable circumstances have prevented me from taking earlier notice of two communications which appeared in the Herald of the 29th October last, signed "Anti-Hypocrite"…

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The Chairman of the Quarter Sessions Court. "Look Upon This Picture and on This."

The Sydney Herald · Monday 14 December 1835 · page 2

A report has been [?] circulations for the last few days, that this Excellency the Governor…

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Police Report. Saturday, Dec. 12. (Before Messrs. Windeyer and Stewart, J.P.'s)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 15 December 1835 · page 3

William Maxwell and Patrick M'Donald, free, were put to the bar, charged with attempting to steal seven one pound notes, the property of one John Tankard…

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Police Office

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 16 December 1835 · page 2

MONDAY DEC. 14.—Before Messrs WINDEYER and STEWART. John Reid, (7 years), Joseph M'Kone, (14 years), assigned to Mr. Maetzer, of George-street,…

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

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 16 December 1835 · page 2

SATURDAY, DEC. 12. Before Messrs. FOSTER and M'PHERSON. John G ugh, (life), assigned to Chief Justice Forbes, (and subsequently lent to Mr. Justice…

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Police Report

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 17 December 1835 · page 3

Maria Johnston, whose face indicated evident symptoms of having been in the wars, was charged by constable Ward with being a reputed bad character, and…

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

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 19 December 1835 · page 2

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15.—Before Messrs. FOSTER and WILSON, and Mili[?]ary Jury. Margaret Whittaker was indicted for stealing a leg of mutten, weighing 10th., the property of…

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Extracts. British Police

The Sydney Herald · Monday 21 December 1835 · page 4

MIDDLESEX GENERAL, SESSIONS, MAY 18.—These Sessions commenced this day, before B. Rotch, Esq., and a full bench of magistrates…

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