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Courts & crime, 1862

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1862 · page 4

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, and Mesara. Day, Kettle, Murphy, Ronald, and Peden. Three persons charged with having been found drunk in teh streels were discahrged…

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Central Police Court.—tuesday

Empire · Wednesday 1 January 1862 · page 5

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, and Messrs. Ronald and Kettle. Three persons charged with drunkenness were discharged…

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Water Police Court.—tuesday

Empire · Wednesday 1 January 1862 · page 5

BEFORE Messrs. Asher and J. B. Daniel. Two drunkards were admonished and discharged. John Rawlings, midshipman on board the ship L[?] Hog[?], remanded from yesterday, on the charge of…

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Murder at Chichester

Empire · Wednesday 1 January 1862 · page 8

A SH[?]KING murder was committed at Chichester on Wednesday night (October 16th). which has caused great excitement in that peaceful locality, where crime beyond petty larceny is almost unknown…

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Water Police Court. Tuesday. Before Mr. M. Asher and Mr. J. B. Daniel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1862 · page 4

John Rawlings, midshipman on board the ship le Hogue, was charged with having stolen a silver watch (value £2), the property of Charles B. Bethel, a midshipman on board the same vessel. plaintift stated that on…

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Insolvency Court. Plans of Distribution

Empire · Wednesday 1 January 1862 · page 5

PLANS of distribution [?]ed in the under mentioned estates were, on Friday, confirmed by the Chief Commissioner, on the motions of the several official assignees. Margaret McDonald, 5s. 0[?]d. in the £; Want and…

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Law. Supreme Court.—tuesday. in Banco

Empire · Wednesday 1 January 1862 · page 5

BEFORE the three Judges. APPEAL IN INSOLVENCY. APPEAL OF SEMPILL IN THE INSOLVENCY OF JOSEPH ANDREWS, AGAINST THE TAXATION OF COSTS BY THE…

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Insolvency Court Tuesday. Befort the Chief Commissioner

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1862 · page 4

Cermearos of diacharge were granted, without opposition—the Chief Commissioner having, by inquiry and examination of the papers in each case, satisfied himself that the requirements of law had been complied with—to…

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Law. Supreme Court.—tuesday. in Insolvency Before the full Court. Estate of Joseph Andraews.—appeal Fo Sampill. Official Assignee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1862 · page 4

The argument in this case was resumed and concluded. The appeal was one against a decision by the Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates, disallowing certain charges made by the assignee for expenses, incurred by him in the…

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Murder on Board the Schah Jehan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1862 · page 4

IN consequence of insubordination on the part of the Lascar portion of the crew of this vessel, they had been sentenced to confinement in Darlinghurst Gaol. They were yesterday liberated, and placed by the Wator Police on board the ship, she being…

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Dreadful Murder on Board the Ship Shah Jehan

Empire · Thursday 2 January 1862 · page 2

IT will be recollected that on the arrival of this ship in Port Jackson, about six weeks since, most serious charges were made against Captain Adams, of the murder of more than one of his lascar crew. These charges were…

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Water Police Court.—thursday

Empire · Friday 3 January 1862 · page 5

BEFORE the Water police Magistrate, Messrs. W. Day. J. Joube[?] and E.D: Eldred. Eliz[?] Embiling and Isabella Chew, married Women, were each fined [?] or in [?] forty eight…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1862 · page 10

BEFORE the Right Worshipful the Mayor, with Messrs, Sutherlatd, Cullen, Ronald, and Lovoy. Ten drunkards were discharged with a caution; two others, who, at the time of apprehension had charge of…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1862 · page 10

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, Mr. J. Shoobert, Mr. B. Buchanan, and Mr. W. Day. William W. Buck, second officer of the ship Queensland, was fined Is. for a slight assault upon John Raftrey, a…

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Central Police Court.—thursday. Before the Mayor, the ex-Mayor, and Massrs, Callen. Ronald, and Mac[?]

Empire · Friday 3 January 1862 · page 5

Two persons charged with drunk[?] were fined 10[?], each with tho[?] alternative. Ton persons charged with the same pffemce. were discharged. [?] Wade was brought before the Bench on…

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The Fatal Assault on Board the Shah Jehan. Inquest on the Body

Empire · Friday 3 January 1862 · page 8

THE inquest on the body of Syed Ahmed, aged 26, late serang of the l[?]r crew on board the barque Shah Jahan, lying below Fort Denison, who was fatally assaulted by a portion of the la[?]r crew on Wednesday…

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The Murder at Mangoplar. (From the Wagga Wagga Express.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1862 · page 2

WE give below the evidence taken at a magisterial inquiry, held at Mangoplar on the 21st of December, before Mr. H. Baylis, P.M., on the body of a man found murdered in a gunyah on the Albury Road,…

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Police. Mutinous Assault and Murder on Board the Ship Shah Jehan

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 4 January 1862 · page 3

Our readers will recollect that at the last sitting of the Central Criminal Court, Captain Adams, of the Shah Johan, stood his trial on the alleged charge of having caused the death of a Lascar who was one of his crew,…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1862 · page 6

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Mr. W. H. Eldred. Cross cases of assault, between Julia Ann Farroll and Jesse Brown, of Miller's Point, being the result of a dispute…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1862 · page 6

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Williams, Cooper, Kettle, and Asher. Ten drunkards were fined 10s, each, with the alternative of twenty-four hours' imprisonment. A man named…

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