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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1851

1,580 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 79

Law Intelligence. Supreme Court. Thursday, February 27, and Tuesday, March 4. BEFORE His Honor the Primary Judge in Equity

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 March 1851 · page 2

HOSKING AND WIFE v. THRRY AND OTHERS, The Bill in this case was filed for the purpose of taking the opinion of the Court upon the construction of the Will and Codicils of the…

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Police Office. Wednesday, March 5. Belove Alderman Egan, and tho Police Magistrate

Empire · Thursday 6 March 1851 · page 3

CHARGE OF INDECENCY— Mr. James Johnson was charged with indecently exposing his person in Pitt-street, opposite the Victoria Theatre, at ten o'clock on Tuesday night. The defendant…

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Maitland Circuit Court. (Before His Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson.) Tuesday, March 4,1851. Horse Stealing

Empire · Thursday 6 March 1851 · page 5

John Cronan, alias Kerry Jack, was indicted for stealing a horse, the property of Robert Fitzgerald, at Yarramon, on the 1st September, 1850. In a second count he was…

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Domestic Intelligence. Central Criminal Court. Friday. Before His Honor Sir Alfred Stephen, Chief Justice murder

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 March 1851 · page 9

John Edmondson, was indicted for having, at Colo, on the l5th January last, wilfully murdered one Catherine Jenkins, by administering to her an ounce of pepper…

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Murder of a Wife by Her Husband

Empire · Thursday 6 March 1851 · page 5

On Monday an inquest was held before Mr. Parker, at Abyrglaslyn, about four miles from West Maitland, on the body of Rose M'Namarn. Mrs. M'Namara had been killed…

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Police Office. Thursday, March 6

Empire · Thursday 6 March 1851 · page 4

Before His Worship the Mayor, and the Police Magistrate. William Shaw,and Catherine Shaw,his wife, brought up again on-a charge of violently…

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The Necessity for Another Paid Magistrate. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 March 1851 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—Scarcely a day passes but one or more cases are unavoidably postponed for the want of a second magistrate. There are so many cases in which the law requires two…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court. New Insolvent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 March 1851 · page 2

WILLIAM MACDONALD, of Hunter street, Sydney, grocer. Liabilities, admitted, £144 5s. 6d.; disputed, £378 16s, 7d.: total, £523 2s. 1d. Assets—value of personal property, £180…

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Insolvent Court. Before the Chief Commissioner

Empire · Thursday 6 March 1851 · page 3

NEW INSOLVENT—William Macdonald of No. 3,Hunter-street,Sydeny,Grocer.Debts admitted £144 5s.6d;clamis disputed,£378 16s.7d. Total £523 2s.1d.assets,personal property…

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Insolvent Court. Before the Chief Commissioner

Empire · Thursday 6 March 1851 · page 4

Charles Toinpson, a single meeting. The insolvent was partially examined, and the meeting was adjourned until Thursday next, when the examination will he resumed…

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The Empire. Thursday, March 6, 1851. the Police Office

Empire · Thursday 6 March 1851 · page 2

IT is not often that we visit the Police Office; but we never go anywhere, without looking well about us. In spending a few hours with Mr. Hill at this…

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Assize Intelligence. Maitland Circuit Court. (Abridged from the Maitland Mercury)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 March 1851 · page 2

THIS Court opened on Monday, before his Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson. F. W. Perry, Esq, Clerk of Arraigns, read her Majesty's proclamation against vice and immorality…

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Original Correspondence. Police Conduct Extra Ordinary. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 6 March 1851 · page 6

SIR—Perhaps yan will have the kindness to insert the following in your excellent little Journal. Being a traveller lately by the mail from…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, March 6, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—wednesday. Insolvency Jurisdiction. Before his Honor Mr. Justice Therry. Estate of William Melville

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 March 1851 · page 2

The Chief Commissioner moved the confirmation of a plan of distribution filed herein, showing a dividend of four shillings in the pound…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court. Thursday. Before S. F. MILFORD, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 March 1851 · page 2

In the estate of Charles Tompson, a special meeting, for examination. Examination proceeded at some length, when the meeting adjourned until Thursday next, insolvent being…

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Before the Police Magistrate, and Mr. M'Lerie

Empire · Saturday 8 March 1851 · page 3

WAGES—John Terry Hughes was summoned by John Brown, a labouring man, for £21 13s. 4d., being the balance of eighteen months wages due to the latter for servitude. It appears that he had…

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Police Office. Friday, March 7. Before His Worship the Mayor, and the Police Magistrate

Empire · Saturday 8 March 1851 · page 3

HABITUAL DRUNKARDS— In disposing of the cases of drunkenness this morning, his Worship the Mayor remarked on the repeated appearance of the same offenders before him, and expressed…

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The Police Register

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 8 March 1851 · page 2

LOVE AND HATE.—A very natty, spicy, gentlemanly looking young follow, named Richard Nail-her, a typo by profession, entered the witness-box with an elegance which was the…

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Insolvent Court. Friday. Before the Chief Commissioner

Empire · Saturday 8 March 1851 · page 2

Samuel Terry Hughes, a third meeting; debts to the amount of £10 and upwards were proved. A claim of £42 was tendered, and rejected, on the ground of infancy. It was arranged that nothing…

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Supreme Court.. Equity Sittings. Friday, March 7th, 1851

Empire · Saturday 8 March 1851 · page 2

Before Mr. Justice Therry. The Court sat for a short time this morning and disposed of one or two motions. SMART V. HUGHES…

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