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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1838

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

Police Incidents. Friday, December 21

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 25 December 1838 · page 2

Jane M'Kvoy, alias Lang, assigned to her husband, was sentenced to 14 days in the cells on bread and water, for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. It…

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Russian Police, a true Tale of Love and Horror & English Prisons. (From the New Monthly for July, 1838.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 25 December 1838 · page 4

It has boen so frequently remarked that the romance of real life is more romantic than the romance of fiction, that it might be considered useless to…

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Penrith. Tuesday, Dec. 18.--Before D. Dunlop, Esq., Police Magistrate

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 26 December 1838 · page 4

John Clarke, prisoner of the Crown, attached to No.1 Stockade, at the 17-mile Hollow, stood charged with absconding himself from his gang without leave, on Saturday evening last…

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Russian Police (a true Tale of Love and Horror), & English Prisons. (From the New Monthly for July, 1838.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 27 December 1838 · page 4

"A[?] I arrived in Kazan in the month of October, 1836. I have plenty of gold and diamonds —there is not a sultan in the world who has finer jewels…

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Police Office Maitland

The Sydney Herald · Friday 28 December 1838 · page 2

EXTRAORDINARY DECISION.—On Monday last Patrick Welsh free, and a man holding a ticket-of-leave for the District of Maitland, were placed at the bar charged—the former with abstracting a…

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Killing No Murder

The Australian · Saturday 29 December 1838 · page 2

The undersigned, having been bred on the banks of the Hunter's and Big River, where he had much practice under the old and experienced professors…

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Police Incidents. Wednesday, December 26

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 December 1838 · page 3

DRAYS AND THEIR DRIVERS.—An important case arose at the Police Office, on Wednesday, from a tri[?]ing breach of the Sydney Police Act, committed by one of…

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(Aldendum to the above Letter.) Important Decisions This Week in the Supreme Court

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 31 December 1838 · page 1

The Editor of this Journal has been prosecuted in different ways, ten times within the last eighteen months, by the express order of the General. His…

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