Supreme Court. Monday, 6Th April, 1840
The Court sat this morning to deliver judgment in the case of Howell u. Kennedy, in which a new trial was ordered, because the Jury had returned a general verdict for plaintiff in…
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The Infamous Court of Quarter Sessions
The public business of this Court was the other day suspended, to enable the Chairman to attend to his private duties as a prosecutor in the Supreme Court. They, the witnesses, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Law Intelligence. Supreme Court —Civil Side. MONDAY—Before the three Judges
DUE DEM HOWELL V.KENNEDY.—This was an ejectment for forty [?] of land, situate on the Nepean River. Plea—not guity. At the trial before Mr. Justice Willis and a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Incidents. Saturday April 4. (Refore Captain Innes and Mr. Windeyer)
William Worgan, musician, William Golding, clerk to Mr. Norton, and a man named William Sharp,were brought up, the two fo mer charged with being dtunk, and. the latter with stopping the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court of Quart[?]r Se[?] To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette
SIR, In the Monitor of this morning there is a leading article headed "Infamous Court of'Quarter Sessions."I enclose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Free Side.—monday, April 6
Margaret Mullins was brought up, charged by inspector Ryan with being drunk and disorderly in the street. It appeared that Margaret was availing herself of the privilege said to be held by her sex in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court of Quarter Sessions. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette
SIR,—In the Monitor of this morning, there is a leading article headed "Infamous Court of Quarter Sessions." I enclose you the original manuscript, by which you will see that it should…
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ST. MONDAY.--Elizabeth Field, a L[?]st outrageous lover of dew-drops, confessed to being drunk on Saturday night. Sentenced to pay a fine of 20s. and costs, or two hundred and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court Before Captain Innes. Thursday, 2Nd April
FREE SIDE (various complaints) 21 Drunkards 10 Summonses 8 CONVICT SIDE (various charges) 24…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rural Police.—Races and Fairs
The report the constabulary force commissioners contains extracts from the [?]nfestions of Fair depred[?]tors of the nigratory class. The Information…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court. Free Side.—friday, April 10
Mary Kavanagh was charged with striking Mrs. Thurston with a poker. Owing to Mrs. Thurston not appearing, and prisoner's husband promising to take her with him to Patrick's Plains, she was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Incidents. Thursday, April 9. (Before Captain Innes.)
Robert Rogen was charged with steal[?]ng a case of medicine of great value, the property of Dr. Neilson. Dr. Neilson stated that he went to the house of the prisoner to see why he did not attend to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Incidents. Saturday, April 11. Fannon's Murder
George Herson, Michael Fogherty, and the woman Mary Gorman, charged with being concerned in the murder of Fannon, a shoemaker, some five years back, were put to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Saturday, 11Th April. Before Captain Innes and Mr. Windeyer. Fannon's Murder
This man, who was a shoemaker, having realised property to the amount of about 300 guineas, which he converted into cash, and which he carried about his person, in November, 1834…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Incidents. Tuesday, 14Th April 184[?] (Before Mr. Winde[?]er.)
William Calaghan was brought up charged by a constable with being drunk, and resisting violently on the way to the watch house. The constable stated he had his jacket [?]orn up the sleeve, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Free Side.—monday, April 13
Four men, named Geary, Palmer, Ingram, and Duffy, were charged with stealing the clothes of a man named Donovan while in a state of intoxication, at Lane Cove. The evidence against the two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Domestic Intelligence. Murder of Fannon
As this case has excited great interest in Sydney, and been attended with very strange circumstances, we give the evidence elicited during the course of an examination before the police in relation to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Insolvent Debtors' Court. April 11Th. 1840. (Before Mr. Justice Stephen.)
RYAN [?]. EDGHILL.—The defendant applied for his discharge under the Debtors' Act. It appeared the debt had been contracted by him on account of his father's Estate—and he had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser Friday Morning. April 17, 1840. Nothing extenuate, nor aught set down in malice. SHAKSPEARE. Fannon's Murder
An article in the Colonist of the 15th April instant, tends to shew the writer's secret impression, of the guilt of the two men, accused by a man, named M'Kinnon, convict at Cockatoo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Incidents. Tuesday, April 14
Four sawyers named Paddy, Geary, Palmer, Ingram, and Duffy, were charged with stopping and robbing a man named Dunnavan on Friday last, at Bullock's public house, up Lane Cove…
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