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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1844

946 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 48

Police Intelligence

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 30 March 1844 · page 2

Before Gilbert Eliott, Esq., P.M. ; John Blaxland, Esq., J.P., and G. B. Suttor, Esq., J.P. Ann Irving, wife of Michael Irving, holding a ticket of leave, was placed at the bar, charged under the…

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Law Intelligence Supreme Court.—vice Admiralty

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 March 1844 · page 2

BEFORE Sir JAMES DOWLING, Chief Justice. "AUGUSTUS," KAIN, v. The JUDGE, at the petition of the removents' proctor, decreed a new commission of…

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Tables of Rates Upon Vessels at the Port of Sydney. Water Police

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 30 March 1844 · page 16

Coasters, 3d. per ton register, payable every 12 months. Every vessel registered at Sydney, and trading to Van Diemen's Land, 3d. per ton per…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, March 30, 1844. "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." the Sydney Police. Ii

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 March 1844 · page 2

WE showed in our former article, that the effective strength of our police eslablishment in Sydney, at the three periods of 1828, 1833, and 1836, averaged, in proportion…

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Government Gazette. Friday, March 29, 1844. Court of Claims

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1844 · page 4

COURT of Claims' Office, March 5. Notice is hereby given, that the following claim for a deed of grant of land, will be ready for the examination of the Commissioners at the…

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Assize Intelligence. (From our own Reporter.) Bathurst Circuit Court. Tuesday, March 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1844 · page 4

Before His Honor Mr. Justice STEPHEN and a Common Jury. STEALING. George Clark and Hugh Wright were indicted…

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Police Incidents. Monday, April 1

The Australian · Tuesday 2 April 1844 · page 3

The Right Worshipful the Mayor took his seat upon the Bench this morning at an early hour. There were but three unhappy drunkards soliciting his Worship's attention; after whose…

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Supreme Court.—criminal Side

The Australian · Tuesday 2 April 1844 · page 2

MONDAY, APRIL 1.—Before his Honor the Chief Justice Tho following jurors, neglecting to answer to their names when called on, were fined in the…

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Friday, March 29. Before His Honor Mr. Justice Stephen. Gaol Delivery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 April 1844 · page 2

Robert Knighton, who was in custody upon the charge of receiving stolen property, was discharged by proclamation, upon the motion of Mr. C[?]E…

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Law Intelligence. Central Criminal Court. Monday, April 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 April 1844 · page 2

BEFORE Sir JAMES DOWLING, C. J. JURORS. Considerable time was wasted after His Honor had taken his seat, in consequence of…

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Assize Intelligence. (From our own Reporter.) Bathurst Circuit Court. Thursday, March 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 April 1844 · page 2

BEFORE His Honor Mr. Justice STEPHEN, and common Jury. HORSE STEALING. Henry Lewis was indicted for having at…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, April 2, 1844. "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." the Sydney Police. Iii

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 April 1844 · page 2

ON Saturday, we showed the very great inferiority of the police force of Sydney to that of large towns in the mother-country, as regards the proportion between the…

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The Second Sydney Gaol Delivery

The Australian · Wednesday 3 April 1844 · page 2

THE wealth of a nation is not the result of a mere process of arithmetic: it is the work of human hands, and is guided by the impulse of human feelings: and it is in vain…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Wednesday 3 April 1844 · page 3

TUESDAY, APRIL 2.—Before the Right Worshtpful the Mayor and John Campbell, jun., Esq., J. P. Hugh Murphy, a wretched, demented…

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Supreme Court.—criminal Side

The Australian · Wednesday 3 April 1844 · page 3

MONDAY, APRIL 2.—Before his Honor the Chief Justice. Patrick Byrne, James Darking, John Kelly, and James Kennedy, who were arraigned at the…

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Law Intelligence Supreme Court.—criminal Side. Tuesday, April 2. BEFORE Sir James Dowling, C.J. Pleas of Not Guilty Retracted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 April 1844 · page 2

A number of [?] prisoners, who were arraigned on Monday, and then pleaded No Guilty to the offences with which they were charged, being again brought up, retracted…

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Police Incidents

The Australian · Thursday 4 April 1844 · page 3

WEDNESDAY APRIL 3.—Before the Right Worshipful the Mayor, Alderman Flood, and Captain Deloitte. David Beard and Henry Couch were charged…

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Supreme Court.—criminal Side

The Australian · Thursday 4 April 1844 · page 3

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3.—Before his Honor the Chief Justice. The Attorney General having stated that there was no other case for trial, his Honor…

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Supreme Court.—insolvency Business

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 April 1844 · page 2

BEFORE his Honor Mr. Justice BURTON. PROVISIONAL TRUSTEE. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER moved the appointment of Mr. Edward Knox, as a…

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Law Intelligence Supreme Court.—criminal Side. Wednesday, April 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 April 1844 · page 2

BEFORE Sir JAMES DOWLING, Chief Justice. BURGLARY—SENTENCE. Patrick Byrne, James Darkin, John Kelly, and James Kennedy, four soldiers, who had pleaded…

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