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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1870

4,172 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 209

District Court, This Day. (Before his Honor Judge Dowling.)

Evening News · Thursday 21 April 1870 · page 3

WEBB AND ANOTHER V. BLOXIDGE.—In this case the plaintiffs, Mr. Henry Webb and Mr. John Booth, recovered a verdict for £11 7s 5d for goods sold and delivered…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1870 · page 6

BEFORE their Worships the Police Magistrate, Messrs. Thompson, Cohen, Love, Birrell, Smithers, Powell, and Evans. Eleven persons were fined in sums varying from 5s. to…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1870 · page 6

BEFORE their Worships Messrs. Hunt, Levy, and St. Julian. A number of drunkards were fined. John Wall was charged with wilfully and unlawfully…

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Police Courts, This Day. Central Police Court. (Before Captain Scott, P.M., and Mr. Hordern.)

Evening News · Friday 22 April 1870 · page 3

Robert Teck and William Archer, charged on the information of John Aaron-Parfitt, with having committed wilful and corrupt perjury, were remanded until Friday next…

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Water Police Court.—thursday. (Before Messrs. St. Julian, Hunt, Josephson and Levy.)

Empire · Friday 22 April 1870 · page 2

John Wall, was charged by Timothy Deveroux with unlawfully cutting and wounding him; and Ellen Wall was chargod with aiding and abetting the said John Wall in the offence. Deveroux appeared…

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Insolvency Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1870 · page 6

BEFORE the CHEF COMMISSIONER. In re Davis and others v. Futton, Mr. Pilcher renewed the motion of the 14th April that the order nisi granted on the 3th March be made absolute. A further affidavit by…

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Central Police Court.—thursday. (Before Captain Scott, P.M., and Messrs. Love, Thompson, and Cohen.)

Empire · Friday 22 April 1870 · page 2

Mary Ann Fitzgerald, Murgaret Smith, Sarah Jones, and Mary Patrick, being convicted of vagrancy; and Wentworth Dixon, for being a common prostitute were each sent to gaol for one month…

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Water Police Court. (Before Messrs. Kettle, M. F. Josephson, B. Burdekin, Pinhev. Hunt and Thorne.)

Evening News · Friday 22 April 1870 · page 3

Two inebriates were fined. Henry Keneskel was sent to gaol for fourteen days, for deserting from his ship, the Moneta. James Johnston, for hawking without a license, was…

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Law. Metropolitan District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1870 · page 6

BEFORE his Honor Mr. District Court Judge Dowling. WEBB AND ANOTHER v. BLOXIDGE. Thift was an action brought by Mr Henry Webb and Mr. John Booth, commission agents, against John…

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Insolvency Court.—thursday. (Before the Chief Commissioner.)

Empire · Friday 22 April 1870 · page 2

Davies, Alexander, and Levey v. Futton.—The order nisi, granted herein on the 30th ultimo was, on the motion of Mr. Pilcher, made absolute. Schedule to be filed by May 2nd…

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Metropolitan District Court. Thursday. (Before his Honor Judge Dowling.)

Empire · Friday 22 April 1870 · page 2

WEBB AND ANOTHER v. BLOXIDGE. —In this case the plaintiffs, Mr. Henry Webb and Mr. John Booth, recovered a verdict for £11 7s 5d for goods sold and delivered…

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Water Police Court

Sydney Mail · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 14
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John Ringwood, a blacksmith, aged 23, was charged with assaulting constable Forster, at Clontarf, on Easter Monday, while in the execution of his duty. According to the statement of constable Sutton, who apprehended…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 9

BEFORE their Werships the Police Magistrate, Messrs. Hordern, Oatley, Pinhey, G. Hill, Day, and Thompson. Two persons were fined 5s. each, and three were fined 10s. [?], some for drunkenness, and others for using…

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Violent Assault

Sydney Mail · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 3

AT the Grafton Police Court, on the 31st ultimo, it appears from the Examiner that George Gerrard, of Palmer's Channel, appeared to answer the above complaint, alleged to have been committed on the 24th March…

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Police. Central Police Court. Before the CitY Magistrates

Sydney Mail · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 14

Benjamin Vine was brought before the Court by detective rowell, charged with being in a place of public resort with intent to commit a felosy. Powell deposed that about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, he was at the Albert…

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Shocking Murder

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 23

A horrible murder was recently committed in Paris, and the following is the assassin's own account, which he gave with great coolness:—"I went into the kitchen and got a large carving-knife…

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The Sillwood Murder

Sydney Mail · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 11

JOHN Regan, tbe man who barbarously murdered his wife, Emma Regan, on the Westbury Road, Sillwood (Tasmania), on the night of Tuesday, the 29th ultimo, is atlast in custody. Between the hours of 8 and 9 on Thursday evening…

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Police Courts, This Day. Central Police Court. (Before Messrs. C. St. Julian, Palser, and Cunningham.)

Evening News · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 3

Catherine Moore was charged with stealing sixteen L5 notes. Constable Oliver stated that prisoner was given into his custody at half-past ten o'clock last night, by a man named R. Sims. On searching…

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Horrible Murder in Paris

Sydney Mail · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 6

A fearful tragedy occurred on Friday, the 28th of January, in the Rue Faubourg St. Honoré. Tho details of the horrible event, as described in the Paris papers, explain that the victim was a Madame Lombard, aged 48, the wife…

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