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The following is a report of the case referred to in our issue of Wednesday. We publish it in full because the fine has elicited a large degree of public comment. Mary Cook and Celestia Overhill, aggravated assault…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lewis Offerstein was brought up charged with stealing two watches and other articles, of the value of L5 10s, the property of George Duxbury. Senior-constable Larkin produced two silver watches, one of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Louis Offverston, on remand, was charged with entering the premises of John Wigley, Park-street, and stealing therefrom twelve pairs of boots.—Thomas Hillard, pawnbroker, 171, York-street, said: I know…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GEORGE Dyer was formally charged with having wilfully murdered one George Wilson in 1857. Mr. Superintendent Winch appeared to conduct the case on behald of the Crown, and Mr. Merrifield…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Friday, January 13.—Before the District Commissioners: Samuel Coles, first, or only meeting, at Braidwood, at 11 a.m.; Thomas M'Dermott, first, or only meeting, at East Maitland, at 11 a.m.;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Cultivation of respect and courtesy towards our fair be[?]rayers is to be most highly commended and enforced, but we claim in this article to assault certain feeble prejudices in favour of women which have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE last dread sentence of the law vas carried into effect yesterday morning, the 10th instant, within the precincts of the Wagga Wagga gaol, upon Robert Campbell, alias Palmer, who was sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A number of persons were fined for being drunk in the public streets. James Hanney, for making use of obscence language on the Rushcutter's Bay-road, was fined 10s, in default…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A few persons were punished for drunkenness. Thomas Stevens and Michael Faggons were sent to gaol for one month, for being absent from their ship, the Glenyan, without leave…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Messrs. J. J. Curran, Stewart, and Spence. Two drunkards were punished. A[?] Burke, brought up for protection, supposed to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →(Before Messrs. Scott and Levey.) Lords Offerstein was brought up charged with stealing two watches and other articles, of the value of L5 10s, the property of George Duxbury…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BEFORE the Mayor, the Police Magistrate, and Mossrs. Levey, Pinhey, Hordern, G. Hill, Oatley, and Murphy. Eight persons were fined in sums varying from 5s. to 20s. for drunkenness or for riotous behaviour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Smith Appeared before the Court in custody, charged with stealing a pair of boots, valued at 6s. 6d;, the property of Mr. Hicking, bootmaker, of George-street. A son of prosecutor saw the prisoner take the boots from…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Joseph Clarence Ross, charged with attempted arson, appeared .on bail, pursuant to remand. John Cash Neild, jun., chief agent in New South Wales for the Queen Insurance Company of England, deposed that the prisoner in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Inspector Mitchelson prosecuted Edward Hurst, a baker, for having in his possession fifty-two loaves of bread, which were of light weight, the amount of deficiency being twenty-three ounces, and the bench…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Langford, of Macquarie-street, carrier. Liabilities, L229 14s 9d. Assets, L124 11s 5d. Deficiency, L105 3s 4d. Causes of insolvency: Losses in business. Mr. Kobert Hamilton Sempill, official…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE people of Orange were ho[?]rified on Wednesday morning, the 4th instant, by the report that during the previous night, three persons had been barbarously and brutally murdered at the Forest…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BEFORE Sir Alfred Stephen, C. J., Mr. Justice Cheske and Mr. Justice Faucett. [?] OF THAME, WAL[?] AND CO.--OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE'S COMMISSION…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE city coroner (Mr. Henry Shiell) held an inquest this morning at the Oxford Hotel, King-street, upon the body of a man named Frederick Wilson [?] who died in the infirmary yesterday afternoon, from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON the morning of the 10th instant the last sentence of the law was carried out upon Robert Campbell, convicted at the assizes in Octobor last of the murder of the brothers Pohlman, near Narrandera. The wretched man had been…
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