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Courts & crime, 1847

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Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 16 January 1847 · page 3

When Greek meets Greeek then comes the [?] of War,—Margaret Brien, alins Daly, alins something else, and Catherine Simpson, two munster women of most forbidding aspect, made their…

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Government Gazette. Friday, January 15, 1847. Court of Claims

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 January 1847 · page 3

COURT of Claims Office, January 14, 1847.— Notice is hereby given, that the following claims for Deeds of Grant of Lands and Town Allotments will be ready for the examination…

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Police Office

The Australian · Tuesday 19 January 1847 · page 3

SATURDAY.—There were only eight cases on the several lists. Two on the drunkards', which were discharged; three on the general list, which were remanded; there on the summons…

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Police Office

The Australian · Thursday 21 January 1847 · page 3

TUESDAY.—There were nine drunkards on the list: two of whom were discharged; four fined 11s. each; and two 5s. each. Elizabeth M'Clusky, a notorious character…

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Police Reports

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 23 January 1847 · page 1

MONDAY.— John joseph Badgell having [?]eluctantly taken up standing room in the dock, a sleek-headed old gentleman named John Thomson came forward as his accuser. Mr, Thomson, who…

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Our Anomalous Police System. To the Editor of Bell's Life in Sydney

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 23 January 1847 · page 3

DEAR BELL—Of the inefficiency of the police in the Colony repeated complaints have been made, though hitherto unattended with any beneficial results. The…

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

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 23 January 1847 · page 375

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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Original correspondence. Court of Requests—reform. To the Editor of Dell's Life in Sydney

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 23 January 1847 · page 3

S[?],—Allow me through your columns to call public—and especially Legislativo—attention to the importance of some speedy and eff[?]al reform in the proceedings of the Court of Requests, as now…

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News From the Interior. (From our Correspondent.) Windsor. the Court of Requests

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1847 · page 3

THE January sittings of the Court of Requests, Windsor, commenced on Monday last with the uncommonly small number in the ordinary sittings of forty-three cases. In the " little go"…

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Police Office

The Australian · Tuesday 26 January 1847 · page 3

SATURDAY.—Of the ten drunkards on the list, five paid lls. each; four were ordered to pay a like sum or go to the cells for 24 hours; and one was discharged…

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Law Intelligence. Court of Vice-admiralty

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1847 · page 2

BEFORE the Worshipful T. F. MILFORD, Esq., Deputy Judge and Commissary. TOM BOWLIN[?] AND OTHERS v. THE "MORNING STAR."…

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Vice Admiralty Court. Monday, Jan. 25. Before the Worshipful S. F. Milford, Esq., Deputy Judge and Commissary. Tom Bowline and Others v. the "Morning Star."

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 27 January 1847 · page 2

This long impending case being called on for argument upon he merits, Mr. HOLROYD was heard as counsel for the respondent. The suit against the Morning Star was one for…

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Dreadful Murder

The Sentinel · Thursday 28 January 1847 · page 2

On Friday afternoon, the inhabitants of the town of Campbeltown were thrown into a state of consternation and horror by the report of a most cruel and barbarous murder having been perpetrated in the…

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Inauguration of the New Sheriffs of London and Middlesex. Court of Exchequer, Westminster

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1847 · page 3

YESTERDAY, according to an annual and ancient custom that has existed for upwards of seven centuries, on the election of citizens to fill the offices of Sheriffs of London and…

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Law Intelligence. Vice-admiralty Court. Thursday, January 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 January 1847 · page 2

BEFORE the Worshipful S. F. MILFORD, Esq., Deputy Judge and Commissary. TOM BOWLINE AND OTHERS, IN RE THE SHIP THE "MORNING STAR."…

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Police Office

The Australian · Saturday 30 January 1847 · page 3

THURSDAY.—Eleven drunkards figured on the [?]ist, five of whom paid 11s. each, and were discharged; four were ordered to pay each a like sum, or go to the cells for twenty-four hours…

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Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 30 January 1847 · page 1

WEDNESDAY.—Mary Drew, a married woman, residing in Cumberland-street, was charged with being of so ungovernable a temper that she was coutinually annoying a neighbour of her's—…

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The Vice-admiralty Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1847 · page 2

ALTHOUGH the Morning Star is a very small vessel, her case is likely to be of great importance, for the proceedings taken against her in the Vice-Admiralty…

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Vice Admiralty Court. Thursday, Jan. 28. Before the Worshipful S. F. Milford, Esq., Deputy Judge and Commissary. Tom Bowline and Others in Re the Ship the "Morning Star."

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 30 January 1847 · page 2

In this case his Worship delivered the following judgment:—In the present stage of this action it must be taken for granted (as already decided) that the Court…

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Vice-admiralty Court. Monday, January 25. Before the Worshipful S. F. MILFORD, Esq., Deputy Judge and Commissary. Tom Bowline and Others, in Re the Ship the "Morning Star."

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 30 January 1847 · page 385

This long pending case being called on for argument upon the merits, Mr. HOLROYD was heard as counsel for the respondent. The suit against the Morning Star was one…

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