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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1835

674 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 34

Horrible Case of Murder and Sel[?] Destruction

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 19 February 1835 · page 4

The following dreadful detail of the murder of a whole family by the father of it, is, perhaps, unparalleled The unnatural act threw the whole…

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POlice Report. TUESDAY; 17th FEBRUARY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 19 February 1835 · page 2

Mr. M. Namara, the tailor, was fined 5s. for being drank in the street yesterday afternoon. Mr. M. seemed very unwilling to pay, and said he should seek…

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Sydney Police Office. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 19 February 1835 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—As I do not frequently trespass on your columns, and as the subject which now urges me to obtrude myself upon you, strikes me as being of some…

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Court of Requests. the Two Schnackenburgers.. Jones [?] [?] Schnacke[?]burger

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 19 February 1835 · page 3

The plaintiff in this case was a surgeon, who sought to recover from the defendant, on " operative schneider," the sum of £17s.for professional attendance, and…

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Extracts. Whaling. Court of Exchequer, Guildhall. (Before Lord Lyndhurst and a Special Jury.)

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 19 February 1835 · page 3

NICOLL AND OTHERS V. BURDASTALL AND OTHERS.—This was an action of trover for a whale taken last August in Davis's Stralts. Mr. F. Pollock, Mr. Follett…

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Police Intelligence

The Australian · Friday 20 February 1835 · page 2

Thomas M'Carthy, Edward Rae, Dennis Callagher, and James M'Farlane, assigned servants to A. B. Spark, Esq., were brought forward under the following circumstances…

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British Extracts. English police

The Australian · Friday 20 February 1835 · page 4

Alexander Ripton, a hairdresser, was charged under the following circumstances —J. Maunders, a meagre—looking object, who acknowledged that he "yarned" a…

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Police Intelligence. Tuesday, February 17

The Alfred · Friday 20 February 1835 · page 2

Anne Melville and Harriet Weare, assigned servants to Miss Wylie, were sentenced--Melville, one month, and Weare, two months, to the third class of the factory, for insolence and disobedience of orders;…

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Supreme Court. Civil Side

The Australian · Friday 20 February 1835 · page 2

TUESDAY.—His Honor the Chief Justice and two assessors sat for the assessment of of damages in undefended cases. THURSDAY.—This day defended causes…

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Supreme Court. Monday, February 16. 1St Day of Term. Judges in Banco

The Alfred · Friday 20 February 1835 · page 2

Their Honors directed an information to be filed against the proprietors of the Australian, who were officers of the Court, for contemptuous expressions against that Court, contained in several numbers of…

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Police Office

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 21 February 1835 · page 2

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18.—Before Messrs. WILSON and STEWART. James Upton, free, late in the employ of Mr. Ashley, carpenter, Liverpool-street, was charged…

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Police Report. THURSDAY, 19th FEBRUARY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1835 · page 2

Ann Holman was brought before the Bench hy Doctor Boston of Clarencestreet, charged with a robbery. Doctor Boston sworn —I would have…

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Matter Furnished by Our Reporters and Correspondents. Supreme Court, Civil Side

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 21 February 1835 · page 2

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18.—Before the CHIEF JUSTICE and Assessors. Thrum v. Macquoid.—This was an action of trover, brought to recover £73. 17s. 6d., being the value…

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The following Rules and Orders of the Supreme Court are published for the information of the Public. Regulce Generales. Supreme Court—t[?] Term, 1835

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1835 · page 4

IT is ordered, that within eight days after the last day of every Civil Term anil Criminal Sassions of the supreme Court respetively, Schedules of all Fines and Recognizances set,…

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Attachment of the Learned Editors of the Australian, for Contempt of Court

The Sydney Times · Saturday 21 February 1835 · page 2

We confess, tho' no lawyers that we were not at all surprised at the notice taken by the Bench of the Supreme Court, to vindicate its sacred character from the…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Monday 23 February 1835 · page 2

Four children of innocence, assigned to Mr. C. Nichols, of Lane Cove, named Raad, Lawton, Hanson, Pyne, and Kennedy, were brought before the bench to answer the following…

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British Police

The Sydney Herald · Monday 23 February 1835 · page 4

HATTON GARDEN.—An ungrateful Thief.—Edward Hobson, a young man of decent appearance, was finally examined before Mr. Sergeant Sellon, charged by…

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Hobart Town Police. (From the Colonial Times.)

The Sydney Herald · Monday 23 February 1835 · page 3

Robert Watts, a ticket-of-leave man, of twelve years standing, was charged with representing himself to be a free-man. The offence having been committed when under…

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Law Intelligence, Supreme Court.—civil Side. Saturday, February 21, 1835.—In Banco

The Sydney Herald · Monday 23 February 1835 · page 2

EXPARTE, SLADE.—In this case a rule nisi was obtained on Saturday last, returnable this day, calling upon N. L. Kentish, Editor of the Sydney Times, to shew cause why a criminal…

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Extracts. Contempt, Not of Court, But of the Lord Chancellor. Chancery Interrogatories. To the Editor of the Albion

The Sydney Herald · Monday 23 February 1835 · page 4

SIR,—As the Noble Lord, miscalled learned, who fills the woolsack, has now occupied his scat a sufficient time to understand the nature of interrogatory, I beg…

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