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Courts & crime, 1864

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1864 · page 5

BEFORE the Mayor, with Messrs. Caldwell and Oatley. Fifteen prisoners were brought before the Court, of whom five were discharged and two remanded. Selina Curtis and Margaret Donovan, vagrants,…

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Central Police Court.—saturday

Empire · Monday 11 January 1864 · page 5

BEFORE Messrs. Speer, Oatley, Caldwell, and Spence. There were fifteen cases on the police sheet, five of which were discharged, and two remanded. Emma Bergie, for disobeying a summons far obscene…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1864 · page 5

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with Mr. T. C. Breillat, Mr. E. J. C. North, and Mr. D. Peden. In the case of Francis M'Donell, butcher, charged with deserting his lawful hired service to Thomas Rice, the…

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Water Police Court.—saturday

Empire · Monday 11 January 1864 · page 5

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with Messrs. E. North, T. C. Breillat, and D. Peden. Samuel Davis, alias the Dodger, and Samuel Holdeworth, charged with attempting to pick the pocket of…

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Insolvency Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1864 · page 5

BEFORE the Registrar. In the estate of Henry Machen, a special meeting. Three debts were proved. SURRENDERS…

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Law. Insolvency Court.—saturday

Empire · Monday 11 January 1864 · page 5

Before the Registrar. In the estate of Henry Mashen, a special meeting, Three deb's were proved. NEW IN[?]OLVENTS…

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Lord Palmerston in the Divorce Court. (From the Morning Star, November 3.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1864 · page 5

THE ears of London society have for many days back been tingling with an extraordinary scandal. It would be the [?]ble[?]t affectation for anyone mixing with the world of our metropolis to assume the aspect…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1864 · page 5

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with Mr. J. Williams and Mr. N. D. Stenhouse. Samuel Davis, alias "The Dodger," and Sam, Holdsworth, men with whom the police have had some previous…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1864 · page 5

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs, Oatley, M. M. Cohen, Caldwell, Murphy, and Cullen. Twenty-six prisoners (six remands) were brought before the Court, of whom seven were discharged and one was…

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Water Police Court.—monday. Before the Water Police Magistrate, with Messrs. J. Williams, D, Peden, and N. D, Stenhouse

Empire · Tuesday 12 January 1864 · page 5

James Pashley, given into custody on the charge of attempting to rob a till, at the Royal Hotel, St, Leonards, was discharged.—Prisoner, for assaulting Francis Belman, who had given information respecting the former charge,…

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Central Police Court.—monday. Before Messrs. Oatley, Pierce, and Caldwell

Empire · Tuesday 12 January 1864 · page 5

There were twenty-six cases on the police sheet, of which six were discharged, and one remanded. James Rogers, on bail, for assaulting a constable in the discharge of his duty. There was no order made, the…

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Atte[?]pted Suicide and Murder. (From the Yass Courier, January 9)

Empire · Tuesday 12 January 1864 · page 2

As a very early hour on Thursday morning, a plasterer named William Wiliams, who has been working in town for some months past, attempted to out the throat of a respectable young women to whom he was paying his…

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Police Magistrates. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1864 · page 5

SIR,—Your correspondent A. B. C., in your issue of yesterday demurs to my "insinuation" in your issue of the 1st instant, that police or stipendiary magistrates were not requisite in Sydney. Mew I did not say that they were…

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Working of the New Police Act. (From the Yan Courier, January 9)

Empire · Tuesday 12 January 1864 · page 2

IN extension of the brief notion published in Wednesdays issue of the meeting of magistrates on the previous-day, convened to take into consideration a circular issued from the Colonial Secretary's Office,…

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Central Police Court.—tuesday

Empire · Wednesday 13 January 1864 · page 5

BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Mr. Day. On the polics sheet there were seventeen cases, eight of which were dismissed, and two remanded. Mary Ann Smith; brought before the Court on…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1864 · page 8

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Hogg, Day, and Murphy. Seventeen priseners were brought before the Court. Nine were discharged…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1864 · page 8

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with Mr. Asher, and Mr. D. Peden. Richard May, fisherman, was brought before the Court charged with assaulting Martin M'Mahon, carpenter, both…

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Water Police Court.—tuesday

Empire · Wednesday 13 January 1864 · page 5

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Mr. M. Asher. James Taylor, apprehended on warrant for using threatening language towatds Mary Ann Tayl[?]r, his wife, was ordered to be impri[?]oned for fourteen d[?]ys, in…

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Saint Stealing

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 13 January 1864 · page 5

"I'faith there's a warp in his brain! A straight thought grows as crooked in his reflection, As the shadow of a stick in a pond."…

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Police Justice. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Wednesday 13 January 1864 · page 5

SIR,—In the Herald of the 11th instant, I find the following paragraph in the "Midge Correspondence":- "An officer of police is thrown against the bush[?], but through his blundering, or something wo[?], does not…

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