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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1866

3,328 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 167

Law Metropolitan District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 April 1866 · page 5

BFFORE Mr. District Judge DOWLING. MULLINS V. KEMP. In this action, plaintiff (James Mullins, auctioneer, Pitt-street) sued the defendant (James Ruthven Kemp,…

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Insolvency Court.—thursday. (Before the Registrar.)

Empire · Friday 6 April 1866 · page 5

In the insolvent estate of John Ross. Single meeting. Insolvent attended. Three debts proved. The assets were directed to be realised. In the insolvent estate of Charles wiggins. Single…

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Law Proceedings This Day. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 April 1866 · page 5

MASTER'S OFFICE.—Before the First Clerk, after 11 o'clock a.m.— Brodie and others v. Webster, taxation…

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Law. Supreme Court. Business for This Day

Empire · Friday 6 April 1866 · page 5

MASTER'S OFFICE.—Before the first clerk, after 11 o'clock a.m.—Brodie and others v. Webster, taxation…

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Metropolitan District Court. Thursday. (Before Mr. District Judge Dowling.)

Empire · Friday 6 April 1866 · page 5

MULLENS V. KEMP.—This was an action for goods sold and delivered to one Miss Frances Brown of Manly Beach, for whom the defendant had become surety. Mr. Butler, instructed by Mr. Dawson, for…

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Central Police Court.—friday. (Before the Police Magistrate and Messrs. G. Hill, Oatley, and E. Campbell

Empire · Saturday 7 April 1866 · page 3

Two drunkards were discharged. James Owen, for riotous conduct in Parramatta-street, was fined 10s, or forty-eight hours imprisonment…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 April 1866 · page 7
Also in Sydney Mail

BEFORE their Worships the Police Magistrate, Messrs. G. Hill, Outley, and E. Campbell. Of eight prisoners brought before the Court, two were discharged, and one was remanded…

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Water Police Court

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 April 1866 · page 12
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

James Donoghue, 25, [?]abourer, was sent to gaol for one month, convicted of stealing timber from the premises damaged by the explosion in Bridge-street. John Goodwin, John Cobbing, Robert Byers, Heary…

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Water Police Court. Before our the Water Police and other Magistrates

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 April 1866 · page 10

Peter Robinson, brought before the Court charged with desertion from the ship Loebiel, was discharged. Robert Blackbird appeared on surat[?] charged with assaulting David M'Beath, on Hyde Park, and was fined…

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Central Police Court. Before the City Magistrates

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 April 1866 · page 10

Of thirty-seven prisoners brought before the Court, twenty-one were discharged, and four were remanded. Among tie latter ware William O'Brien and Alexander Andrews (said to be servants of Miss Dickson), charged…

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Water Police Court.—friday. (Before Messrs. Armitage, Burnell, and Chapmany.)

Empire · Saturday 7 April 1866 · page 3

Jemmy Show, a Chinaman, was sent to gaol for three months, for stealing a Crimean shirt and vest, the property of Jeremiah Murphy, of the value of £1 10s…

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Police Vagaries

Sydney Punch · Saturday 7 April 1866 · page 4

THE "king can do wrong" has long been an established legal picture, but that a policeman can do no wrong is rapidly becoming an established reality, if the decisions of some of the Solons who grace our magisterial benches may be accepted as evidence of the fact. A case in point occurred but a few days ago, at the Central Police Office, before…

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Law and Police. Supreme Court.—saturday. Last Day of First Term. 1866

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 April 1866 · page 10

BE[?]OUR their Honors Sir ALPRED STEPHEN, Chief Justice; Mr. Justice CHEEKR, and Mr. Justice FAUCETT, ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS. Sir WILLIAM MANNING, Q.C., moved the admission as…

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Insolvency Court

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 April 1866 · page 12
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

BEFORE the [?] THURSDAY. In the [?] of John Rose, a single [?] Three debts were proved; insolvent was examined by Mr. Smith, a credit [?]. The [?] was directed to realise all the…

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Law and Police. Metropolitan District Court. Thursday. Before Mr. District Judge Dowling. Mullins V. [?]EMP

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 April 1866 · page 12

In this action, plaintiff (James Mullins, auctioneer, Pittstreet) sued the defendant (James Ruthven Kemp, M.L.A.), as the surety of a Miss Frances Browne, who [?] February, 1864, bought furniture of the firm of Alexander…

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Metropolitan District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 April 1866 · page 7

BEFORE Mr. District Judge DOWLING. A number of ca. sa. motions were heard. HANKS V. DOWNEY. This was an interpleader suit, defendant seeking to…

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Insolvency Court. Before the Chief Commissioner

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 April 1866 · page 10

Plena of distribution were confirmed, on the motion of Mr. Mackenzie, in the following estates:—C.J. O'Donnell, showing a dividend of 3s.10d. in the pound; R. H. Gordon (second dividend), 2s.; F. Mader, 1s, 0¼d.; Vickers Moyse,…

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