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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1844

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

Police Office, Dec. 24

The Australian · Thursday 26 December 1844 · page 3

CHRISTMAS FINERY.—A man named Jas. Holmes was charged with having unlawfully appropriated from the shop of Mr. Fanner, in Georgo-street in this town, a…

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Extraordinary Trial of the Rt. Hon. Sir James Graham. for a Misdemeanour. Central Criminal Court, Aug. 2, 1814

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 26 December 1844 · page 6

In consequence of the loud public disapprobation expressed generally throughout the country of the conduct of the Home Secretary, in opening, or causing to be opened, at the General…

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Bathurst Court of Quarter Sessions. Friday, 20Th December

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 December 1844 · page 2

William Middleton, yesterday found guilty of cattle stealing, and remanded, was this day brought up for sentence, which was, that he should be transported for fifteen years. There…

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Police Intelligence

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1844 · page 2

Night Auctioneering alias Pawnbrokeing.--James H. Fullard, the investigation of whose abilities in the transmutation of watches into current coin was remanded from Thursday until to day, in order to…

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Parramatta Police

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 28 December 1844 · page 3

George Gray, attached, as cook, to the Gaol, had also availed himself of a Sunday out to get something which was stronger than water in, in which state, like his precursor at the bar, he grew loudly loquacious,…

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Court of Vice Admiralty

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 28 December 1844 · page 264

Before the Worshipful S. F. MILFORD, Esq., Deputy Judge and Commissary. RANKIN AND ANOTHER v. THE "PROTEUS." Mr. HART, from the office of Mr. Dillon, the…

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Extraordinary Attempt to Murder, by a Brother of Lord Audley's

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 28 December 1844 · page 4

On Saturday a young man of respectable appearance, twenty-two years of age, who gave the name of the Hon William Ross Touchet, was placed at the bar at Bow Street police court, before Mr…

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