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Courts & crime, 1840

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Insolvent Debtors' Court. Tuesday, December 2[?]. (Before his Honor Judge Stephen.)

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 24 December 1840 · page 2

John Macdermott, who had been remanded from the previous Friday, was again brought up on Tuesday for further examination, and was cross-examined at considerable length by Mr. G. R. Nichols for the…

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New South Wales Government Gazette. Wednesday, December 16, 1840. Court of Claims

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 24 December 1840 · page 4

NOTICE is hereby given that the following Claims for DEEDS OF GRANT OF LAND AND TOWN ALLOTMENTS will be ready for the examination of the Commissioners,…

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Police Court. Thursday, December 24. DRUNKARDS

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 25 December 1840 · page 2

John Fullens, by Foster, 36 hours treadmill; John Muldoon, by Healy, paid 21s.; John Connell, by Macfaul, 48 hours treadmill; James Stewart, by M'Kone, 12 hours treadmill;…

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Original Correspondence. Police Magistrate Cook and the Bushrangers of Dungog

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 26 December 1840 · page 2

MR. EDITOR—Perhaps you would wish to hear from this district how matlers stand. On Monday, November 30th, news came to our worthy police magistrate that Walker, the publican, had been…

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Police Office. Saturday, December 26

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 28 December 1840 · page 2

If we might judge from the fewness of drunkards for trial, at the police office yesterday, (only twenty-six) Christmay day was not kept up by Bacchus' friends, with proper "spirit." The…

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Police Office. Monday, December 28

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Tuesday 29 December 1840 · page 2

The number of persons this morning amounted to 214, of whom 78 were confined for drunkness. Several charges of a serious nature were likewise noticed on the free, as well as the prisoner's list…

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Notice to Mariners. Police Office, Port Nicholson, Dec. 5, 1840

The Australian · Tuesday 29 December 1840 · page 3

The following observations on the approaches to the town of Auckland, are published for general information, by order of the Lieutenant Governor…

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Police Office. Tuesday, December 29. DRUNKARDS

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 30 December 1840 · page 2

Edward Clarke, confined by Wilson, 2 hours stocks; William Carey, by Robinson, 412 hour, treadmill; Richard Barrow, by Carrol, paid 1 [?]; John Byrnes, by Smith, 60 hours treadmill; John…

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Lower Rhine Court of Assize

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 30 December 1840 · page 2

MURDER OF A GIRL BY HER LOVER.—George Andres was charged with the murder of Marie Heintz, a young woman only 16 years of age, by cutting her throat in the Forest of Gries, on the…

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Police Court. Wednesday, December 30. Before Mr. Windeyer

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Thursday 31 December 1840 · page 2

This day there was a manifest falling off in the list of drunkards; only twenty-one names appearing amongst these members of the anti-temperance society. The rigorous proceedings of the…

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Notice to Mariners. Police Office, Port Nicholson, December 5, 1840

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 31 December 1840 · page 3

The following observations on the approaches to the town of Auckland are published for general information, by order of the lieutenant-governor. MICHAEL MURPHY…

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Court of Claims Office, Bent-street, December 21, 1840. Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 22nd December, 1840

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Thursday 31 December 1840 · page 4

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments at the Female Orphan School, Parramatta. Mrs. Harriot M'Kenny, to be Matron;…

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