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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1846

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Law Intelligence. Central Criminal Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 April 1846 · page 2

BEFORE His Honor Mr. Justice DICKINSON. ASSAULT ON A CHILD. Charles Kelly, late of Parramatta, labourer, was indicted for having, at the Parramatta…

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Supreme Court. Criminal Jurisdiction. Monday, April 13. Before his Honor the Chief Justice. Uttering a Forged Order

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 15 April 1846 · page 2

Patrick Flannigan and Patrick Gately were indicted for having, at Sydney, on the 13th of March last, feloniously uttered a forged order for £12 10s., purporting to have been drawn by T. Moore, upon…

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Supposed Murder in Lincolnshire

The Sentinel · Thursday 16 April 1846 · page 3

Boston, Nov. 26 -- A great deal of excitement has been produced in this neighbourhood by the discovery of the body of a man named Robert Talks, in the river Withham exhibiting such marks of violence as served…

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Horrible Murder Near Knowle

The Sentinel · Thursday 16 April 1846 · page 3

A murder, under circumstances of a peculiarly atrocious character has been committed on a respectable old man, named Tranter, a farmer residing in a lone house, situate in the parish of…

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Horrible Murder of a Female, and Attempt at Arson

The Sentinel · Thursday 16 April 1846 · page 3

Our City was thrown into a great state of excitement this morning by a report that a most appaling murder had been committed at the Westend, in a disreputable house in Cedar-lane, which…

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Law Intelligence. Central Criminal Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 April 1846 · page 2

BEFORE His Honor Mr. Justice THERHY. ASSAULT ON A CHILD. Christopher Kelly, who had on Tuesday been tried and acquitted upon the charge of having…

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Law Intelligence. Central Criminal Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 April 1846 · page 2

BEFORE their Honors the Three Judge;. SENTENCES, ASSAULT. Edmund Maher, who had been indicted for…

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Police Court

The Sydney Weekly Transcript · Saturday 18 April 1846 · page 3

DRUNKARDS. -- There were thirteen men and three women on the list to-day; six men and two women were discharged ; one man paid five shillings ; two men paid eleven shillings each; four…

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Police Reports

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 18 April 1846 · page 2

MONDAY.— A REGULAR VISITOR.— Mary Lang was charged by constable Kelly with being drunk and using obscene language, and as a rider to the Charge, he added, in the phraseology of…

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Murder on the High Seas

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 18 April 1846 · page 1

SINCE the time that Drummond, the master of the " Mary," on her passage from New York to Cork, in the year 1828, murdered SEVEN of the crew we have heard of…

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Supreme Court. Criminal Jurisdiction. Tuesday, April 14. Before his Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson. Assault on a Child

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 18 April 1846 · page 2

Christopher Kelly, late of Parramatta, labourer, was indicted for having, at the Parramatta Road, on the 23rd of February last, assaulted and violated the person of one Jane Kerr, an infant under…

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Central Criminal Court

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 18 April 1846 · page 4

MONDAY,APRIL 13.—Before his Honor the Chief Justice. MANSLAUGHTER. Thomas Wall, late of Sydney, butcher,…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—euity Jurisdiction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 April 1846 · page 2

BEFORE their Honois the three Judges. BROWN P. NORTON AND OTHERS. This was an appeal against the decision of the Primary Judge in Equity, and at the rising…

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Central Criminal Court. Monday, 6Th April, 1846

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 18 April 1846 · page 2

John Smith, free by servitude, committed by R. C. Lethbridge at Penrith for horsestealing, guilty; 10 years transportation. Edward Ma[?]er, bond, an assigned servant to the…

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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 18 April 1846 · page 105

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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Supreme Court. Criminal Jurisdiction. Before his Honor the Chief Justice. Monday, April 13. Uttering a Forged Order

The Sydney Weekly Transcript · Saturday 18 April 1846 · page 1

Patrick Flannigan and Patrick Gately were indicated for having, at Sydney, on the 13th March last, feloniously uttered a forged order for £12 12s., purporting to have been drawn by T. Moore,…

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Campbelltown. Police Office, Thursday, April 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 April 1846 · page 2

BEFORE JAMES CHISHOLM, Esq., J.P., Chairman, Edward Howe, Esq., J.P., and EPHRAIM HOWE, Esq., J.P. Bridget Parker was brought up on suspicion…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—banco Sittings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 April 1846 · page 2

BEFORE their Honors the three JUDGES. RETURNS. The usual returns were presented by the Master in Equity, Prothonotary, and Chief…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court—banco Sittings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 April 1846 · page 2

BEFORE their Honors the three JUDGES, REGINA v. BFRNAUD MURRAY. The above named prisoner having been brought up under a writ of habeas corpus, it was…

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Supreme Court. Equity Jurisdiction. Friday, April 17. Before their Honors the three Judges. BROWN V. Norton and Others

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 22 April 1846 · page 2

This was an appeal against the Primary Judge in equity, and the motion was, that the petition of appeal of Thomas Chaplin Breillat be taken off the file for irregularities…

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