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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1838

608 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 31

Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—civil [?]

The Sydney Herald · Monday 2 April 1838 · page 2

THURSDAY, MARCH 29.—Before the three Judges, in banco. In the goods of Willinm Bradbury.—Administration, on the motion of the Attorney General,…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court—civil Side. Friday, 26Th March. in Banco, before the three Judges

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 2 April 1838 · page 2

Campbell Macquoid.—The Court gave judgment in this case to-day. If was an action of trover brought by the plaintiff, one of the trustees of Mr. Charles Beilby,…

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Law. Supreme Court.—in Banco

The Australian · Tuesday 3 April 1838 · page 2

TUESDAY.—John Kinchela, senior, Esq., took the customary oaths on being appointed a Magistrate of the territory. dshcraft, and Another v. Bryant and Another…

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Supreme Court—Civil Side. Monday, March 26Th. in Banco. (Before the three Judges.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 3 April 1838 · page 2

B[?] v. O'Brien.—This was an action to recover compensation for a [?]cious arrest and false imprisonment. The defendant had pleaded a justification to which the plaintiff demurred, and the…

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Police Incidents

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 4 April 1838 · page 2

Benjamin Millington, a man with a beard, grizzled and curled, over which he passed his Land with the same reverence bestowed by a Turk on a similar appendage. The charge was…

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Police. Saturday, March 31

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 4 April 1838 · page 2

Mary Pearce, assigned to Mr. Cutler, of. Sussex street, was charged by her master with insolence and disobedience of orders. The prisoner, it appeared, had delivered…

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Supreme Court.--Civil Side

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 4 April 1838 · page 2

FRIDAY, MARCH 30--Before the three Judges: in. banco.--Campbell and others v. Macquoid.--This was an action of trover for goods and…

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Advance Australia Sydney Gazette. Thursday, April 5, 1838. The Notorious Court of Quarter Sessions

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 5 April 1838 · page 2

No subject, within the scope of our recollection, has afforded such a fruitful topic for animadversion to the gentry of the broadsheet as the "notorious" Court…

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The Court of Quarter Sessions

The Australian · Friday 6 April 1838 · page 2

BEFORE the election of the present Chairman of Quarter Sessions, and the appointment of a Crown Prosecutor, frequent complaints were made of the inefficiency of the officers of…

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The Notorious Court of Quarter Sessions

The Sydney Monitor · Friday 6 April 1838 · page 3

WHEN the business of this Court which had hitherto been performed by the Clerk of the Peace, became divided between that officer and a Crown Prosecutor; it was…

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Police. Tuesday 6Th Instant

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 9 April 1838 · page 2

George Collett a seaman of the Fame whaler, was charged with stealing a telescope. The prisoner lodged at the house of a man named Davidson in Cumberland…

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Police. Wednesday, April 11Th

The Sydney Monitor · Friday 13 April 1838 · page 3

John Myers, as igned to Mr. fisher, of George street, rectifier, from whose service he had absconded, was committed to take his trial for a burglary in the house of…

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Police Incidents

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 14 April 1838 · page 2

John Ditch, not of that stamp which cut at both ends becomes longer, but a regular coal black, Coast of Guinea nigger, with a fine curly thatch covering his cranium. The charge set…

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Windsor Police. 9th APRIL, 1838

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 14 April 1838 · page 2

Thomas Johnstone, junior, of Portland Head, was brought up before S. North, Esq. Police Magistrate, for discharging a loaded gun at his father's assigned servant, named John Quiney,…

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Police. Wednesday, April 11Th

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 16 April 1838 · page 2

William Cooney, James Smith, and Edmund Byrne, were charged, the former with the robbery at the house of Mr. Terry, in Castlereagh-street, on Monday…

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Court of Claims

The Australian · Tuesday 17 April 1838 · page 1

NOTICE is hereby given, that the following CLAIMS for DEEDS of GRANT of LAND and TOWN ALLOTMENTS will be ready for the…

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Police Incidents. Saturday, 14Th April

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 17 April 1838 · page 2

John Griffiths and Mary La[?]less, were charged by one Alexander Hamilton, a man in the employ of Mr.Barker; the former with snatching from his hand a…

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Police Incidents

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 18 April 1838 · page 2

Amy Robsart, not the victim of a Leicester's lust and Varney's villany, but a regular "how came you so kind of personage," with her nose possessing that exhilarating turn, denominated…

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Police. Monday, April 16

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 18 April 1838 · page 2

James Moss, assigned to Mr. Ward of Castlereagh-street, was charged on suspicion of having stolen the sum of fifty pounds from his master. The money had…

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Police Incidents

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 19 April 1838 · page 2

On Tuesday last, Mr. Gill, who resides at the corner of Brougham-place, appeared at the Police Office to answer an information preferred by the Chief Constable, charging him with a…

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