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Courts & crime, 1837

642 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 33

Court of Claims

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 December 1837 · page 4

NOTICE is hereby given, that the following Claims for Deeds of Grant of Land and Town Allotments will be ready for examination by the Commissioners appointed for that…

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Court of Claims. Additional Grants. Notice of Hearings

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 December 1837 · page 4

THE Commissioners hereby give Notice of their intention to proceed in the investigation of claims for Additional Grants, after the Deed of Grant Cases have bean disposed of nt…

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Court of King's Bench

The Sydney Herald · Monday 4 December 1837 · page 4

SATURDAY, MAY 27.—Bourne and two others, v. the King.—This case was brought before the Court on a writ of error, under the following circumstances, Bourne and his two companions were convicted of…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 7 December 1837 · page 2

William Hopkinson was placed at the bar; this man is assigned to Mr. [?] Hayes as a cook, and on the previous day the parties intending to sit down to di[?]…

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Police. Thursday December 7

The Sydney Monitor · Friday 8 December 1837 · page 2

Quarrelling for a Wife.—William M' Pheer, a stone-mason residing in Fort street, was charged with an assault. John Fisher, also a stone-mason, residing in…

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Police Incident. Look at This

The Sydney Herald · Monday 11 December 1837 · page 2

MARRIAGE BY PROXY.—A female Convict named Margaret Molloy or M'Carthy, was apprehended a few days since by District Constable Shields for improper conduct Shields having…

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Maitland. Address of the Police Magistrate to the Inhabitants of the District of Maitland

The Australian · Tuesday 12 December 1837 · page 2

Entrusted as I am, in a peculiar degree, with preserving peace and order in this neighbourhood, I venture on my arrival among you, to solicit the co-operation of all classes of effecting on…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 12 December 1837 · page 2

Mr. Seth Hawker, of the British Hotel, George-street, (whom it would appear previous to his having taken up the calling of a licensed publiean, had a…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 14 December 1837 · page 2

About two o'clock on Sunday last, a man lately employed in the service of Mr. Titterton, entered the yard of Mr. Cave, who lives next door, evidently for the…

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Domestic Intelligence. [Continued.] the Court of Requests

The Colonist · Thursday 14 December 1837 · page 6

AN impudent fellow, who, for charity's sake, we will suppose knew no better, in order to obtain a favourable hearing of his case, had the audacity to transmit to Mr. Commissioner. Therry a letter…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1837 · page 2

A woman named Mary Thomas, assigned to Mr. Jones of Sydney, was found by assistant chief constable Mitchell, curvetting and dancing a pas seul in…

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Police Incidents. Monday, Dec. 18

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 19 December 1837 · page 2

James Quigly was placed at the bar charged by Francis Sutland, of Kentstreet, with having in his possession a portion of a rail fence that fronted his…

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Police. Monday, December, 18Th

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 20 December 1837 · page 2

Jeremiah Mahoney of George-street was placed at the Bar on suspicion of having stolen silver in his possession. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Dick,…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 21 December 1837 · page 2
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The Police-office on Tuesday morning, was crowded with Bacchanalians, many of whom (shirtless and shoeless) had been celebrating their midnight orgies, and…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1837 · page 2

Charles Clark, better known by the cognomen of Gilderoy the bonnie Boy, and who in various tap rooms has been in the habit of "holding the mirror…

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Police

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 25 December 1837 · page 2

Sloman v. Ayres.—The plaintiff in this case, a shoe maker, residing in George-street, summoned the defendant, a resident of Campbell Town, to recover from him a dog which had been lost by him…

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Police

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 27 December 1837 · page 2

Mary Ann Charnley, assigned to Mr Thomas Jones, of the Surry Hills, was charged with insolent conduct to Mrs. Le Bura. The prisoner was dashingly arrayed…

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Police Incidents. Tuesday, December 26

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 28 December 1837 · page 3

The Office was this morning crow[?]d with a motley group, who had been indulging in spirited petations, many of whom had had the felicity of ruralizing…

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Police. Wednesday, 27Th Dec

The Sydney Monitor · Friday 29 December 1837 · page 2

Eliza Conway and Mary Casey, were placed at the bar on the following charge. It appeared from the evidence that a man, named Patrick Kelly, had ab-conded from the service of Mr. Gurner; as he…

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