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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1844

946 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 48

Domestic Intelligence. Law Report Extraordinary! Supreme Court.—first Term, 1845

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 September 1844 · page 4

YESTERDAY, being the first day of Term, their Honors the Judges took their seats in Banco, at ten precisely. Shortly before hat hour His Honor the Acting Chief Justice made his…

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Original Correspondence. Country Court of Requests Act. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 September 1844 · page 4

GENTLEMEN,—The Bathurst petitioners are grateful to Mr. Darvall for pleading in behalf of their constitutional rights to trial by jury. Allow me to place on record a few facts,…

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Country News. Berrima Circuit Court

The Australian · Friday 13 September 1844 · page 4

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4.—George Miller was found guilty of stealing on the 21st Jan. 1841, a grey gelding, the property of Mr. H. C. Burnell. Sentence—Ten…

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Assize Intelligence. (From our own Reporter.) Maitland Circuit Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 September 1844 · page 3

CN Tuesday last, His Honor Mr. Justice A'BECKETT arrived at Morpeth, per steamer, for the purpose of opening the Maitland Circuit Court, attended by J. H. Plunkett, Esq., Her…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Friday, September 13, 1844. "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." Control of the Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 September 1844 · page 2

In all the arguments made use of to show that the control of the police ought to be vested in the City Council, we do not believe that it was ever imagined that the…

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Police.--SATURDAY

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1844 · page 2

STOCKADE MEN.--Denis Creamour and Moses Johnson, who had absconded on the previous Tuesday from the Parramatta Stockade, and had been forwarded from Sydney, to be dealt with by the Bench as…

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Sydney Police

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1844 · page 4

ESCULENT PLANTS.--Mrs. Peggy Mulrooney was introduced to the Right Worshipful the Mayor, by virtue of a summons, issued at the suit of a rival vender of Esculent Plants, in the George-street Market,…

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Police Reports, by " Boz." Parramatta Bench--monday

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 14 September 1844 · page 3

Mrs. Betsey Barlow was introduced to the notice of the Bench as a drunkard, but before she left the Court Justice rated her a rogue and vagabond. On Saturday night her better half having, after she had turned every…

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Assize Intelligence. Berrima Circuit Court.--wednesday

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1844 · page 3
Also in The Star and Working Man's Guardian

George Miller, late of Braidwood, labourer, charged with horse-stealing, was discharged, the evidence being defective, and his Honor expressing deep regret that he should have escaped…

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Berri[?] Circuit Court. Wednesday, September 4, 1844

The Guardian · Saturday 14 September 1844 · page 213

George Miller was found gutity of stealing on the 21st January, 1841, a grey gelding, the property of Mr. C. H. Burnell. Sentence--Ten years' transportation…

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Penrith Police

The Australian · Tuesday 17 September 1844 · page 3

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1844.—Present: R. C. Lothbridge, Esq., J. P. James Evans, a prisoner of the Crown, attached to the Black-heath Mountain party…

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Maitland Circuit Court

The Australian · Tuesday 17 September 1844 · page 4

On Tuesday last his Honor Mr. Justice a'Beckett, attended by the Attorney General, Mr. Hutchinson, Clerk of Arraigns, and Mr. C. Prout. Under heriff, arrived…

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Law Intelligence Supreme Court.—equity Jurisdiction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 September 1844 · page 2

BEFORE His Honor Mr. Justice STEPHRN. M'LAUGHLIN [?] LITTLE. The defendant in the above suit (John Little) was sued by the plaintiff (Bernard…

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At the Police Office, Goulburn

The Australian · Wednesday 18 September 1844 · page 4

1. Georgiana, 640 acres, parish unnamed, at Red Ground. 2. Georgiana, 640 acres, parish unnamed, at Red Ground…

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At the Police Office, Bathurst

The Australian · Wednesday 18 September 1844 · page 4

1. Bathurst, 640 acres, parish unnamed, near Bruinan. 2. Bathurst, 640 acres, parish of Grantham. 3. Roxburgh, 700 acres, parish unnamed, near…

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Supreme Court. Vice-admiralty

The Australian · Wednesday 18 September 1844 · page 3

TUESDAY, SEPT. 17.—The Court was opened before the Worshipful S.T Milford, Esq,, Deputy Commissary, but there being, no business before it, it was adjourned till Tuesday next…

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At the Police Office, Pout Macquarie

The Australian · Wednesday 18 September 1844 · page 4

1. Macquarie, 1,050, acres, parish unnamed, Lansdowne River. 2. Macquarie, 1,00 acres, parish unnamed, Lansdowne River…

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Sydney Court of Quarter Sessions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 September 1844 · page 3

THIS Court commenced its sittings on Monday, (September 9,) and closed them on Friday last; the following is a list of the cases tried:- TUESDAY, 10TH SEPTEMBER…

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Police Office

The Australian · Thursday 19 September 1844 · page 3

LIBEL.—P. J. Cohen v. Saul. Lyons.—Mr. Saul Lyons appeared before the sitting Magistrates to answer, a charge of publishing a malicious libel on Mr. P. J. Cohen of the Saracen's…

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