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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1871

3,962 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 199

The Court

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 21

The Queen, accompanied by the Princesses Louise and Beatrice and Prince Leopold, came to London on Monday last from Windsor Castle, and will remain at Buckingham Palace for several days to…

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Insolvency Court. SURRENDERS

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 5

George Carter, of Alma-street, South Sydney, commission agent. Liabilities, L159 17s lOd. Assets, L75 17s 2d. Deficiency, L84 Os 8d. Cause of insolvency: Pressure of a creditor. Official assignee,…

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Insolvency Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 5

BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. In the estate of Richard W. Cox, a third meeting. Some debts were proved, and the official assignee read his report. Insolvent was allowed his household furniture and wearing…

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Insolvency Court. Voluntary Sequestration

Empire · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 2

Charles Meacher, now of Elizabeth-street south Red[?] [?]rn, out of business, lately residing at the Royal Exhibition Hotel, Devenshire-street, Sydney. Liabilities, L876 10s 1d. Assets, L5, deficiency, L871…

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Metropolitan District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 5

BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge SIMPSON. [?]A. SA. MOTIONS. The following ca. [?]a. motions were heard and disposed of:—Cohen v. Robinson, Josephson v. Grenfeld, Maloney…

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Central Police Court.—friday. (Before the Mayor, with Captain Scott and Messrs. Levey, G. Hill, Oatley, and Penfold.)

Empire · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 2

Honorah Doyle, an idle and disorderly character, was sent to gaol for one month. John Smith, ali[?]s Wilson, was brought up charged with having stolen 1.20 from Andrew Jackson…

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The Quirinal and the Court

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 5

The Liberia and other journals of the Moderate and Court party, contain, pompous eulogies on the piety of the Prince and Princess of Piedmont, because they went last…

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Law and Police. Privy Council Appeal Case

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 239

THE following is the judgment of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the appeal of Eales v. Montefiore, from the Supreme Court of New South Wales, delivered 31st January, 1871:—…

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Horrible Murder at Fiji. (From the Fiji Times, March 10.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 16

BY the arrival of the two Messrs. Kelt from Suva, we receive the sad intelligence of the murder of Mr. William Gray Bailey, who was found in bed with his skull beaten in, on the morning of Monday, the 13th…

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Insolvency Court. Before the Chief Commissioner

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 239

Creditors' directions were ratified in the estate of Richard Henry Shaw and Charles Pritchard. In the estate of William M. Clarke, the official assignee applied for further time to file a plan of distribution, the…

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Another California Tragedy. the Murder of J. W. Hewitt, at Vacaville

Evening News · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 3

A CORRESPONDENT of the Vallejo Chronicle writes as follows from Vacaville, under date of March 6th:— On Friday night, at 7 o'clock, after Mr. Hewitt's family had taken supper and retired to the parlour…

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District Court.—friday. (Before his Honor Judge Simpson.)

Evening News · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 3
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The majority of cases were trifling, and of no public importance, the following being the only one worth recording:— YEATES v. DE LISSA.—Plaintiff was a commission…

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Law. Supreme Court,—friday, 21St April. in Chambers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 5

BEFORE Mr. Jusfice FAUCETT. EX PARTE BURNS—HABEAS CORPUS. This was an application on the part of John Burns, who sought by habeas corpus to obtain the custody of his child,…

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The Police Force. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 9

SIR,—You will do me a favour by granting me space in your valuable journal, to correct some inaccuracies which appeared in a letter signed "Fair Play," in your issue of the 1st…

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Extraordinary Conviction for Contempt of Court. (From the Bombay Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 8

IN November last, Govindrao Ramchunder, a vak[?] of Dhoolia, in the district of Khandeish, waa charged before the Hon. G. A. Hobart, Session Judge of Khandeish, with contempt of Court, in having, while…

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Fearful Scene in a Court Room. Judgd Shot by a Coloured Prisoner

Evening News · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 3

MERIDAN, MISS., March 7.—Yesterday, during the trial of three negroes before Justice Bramlette for riotous conduct, one of the prisoners named Finley, alias Tyler, shot and instantly killed Justice…

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Water Police Court.—saturday. (Before the "Water Police Magistrate and Mr. Loxton.)

Empire · Monday 24 April 1871 · page 2

Ten individuals, most of them patrons of colonial industry, were punished for being drunk and incapable in the publie streets. Sarah. A. Jones, lately an inmate of Darlinghurst…

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Water Police Court. (Before the Water Police Magistrate, Messrs. Gedye, Williams, Foote, and Rattray,)

Evening News · Monday 24 April 1871 · page 2

Fifteen victims to the festive social vice were m[?]l[?]t in various sums, with the usual alternative. Jerome Chicky, a native of Portugal, was sent to gaol for two months under the Vagrant Act, he having…

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Centrai Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 April 1871 · page 2

BEFORE the Mayor and the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. St. Julian and Cunninghame. One person was fined 5s., and two were fined 10s. [?]b; for drunkenness…

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