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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1873

4,273 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 214

Law. Insolvency Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1873 · page 2

SURRENDER.—Henry Border, of Barradine, near Coonabarabran, storekeeper. Liabilities, £1556 3s. 8d., of which £942 is secured. Assets, £1307 9s. Mr. Humphery, official assignee…

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Shocking Tragedy. Murder and Suicide at Kyamba Creek

Evening News · Friday 24 January 1873 · page 3

ONE of those appalling tragedies that compass the doable crime of murder and suicide—and which happily for society at large are of rare occurrence—was enacted within eight miles of Wagga Wagga on Monday…

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Telegrams This Day. Return of Archbishop Folding Murder on the Bathurst-road Personation of a Chief Secretary. Breadstuffs Falling. Speculation in Candles. Search for Coal in Victoria. Importations of Tasmanian Cargoes. Conference at Newcastle. Serious Charges Against a Solicitor. Alleged Suicide at Brisbane. Fresh Discoveries of Gold In; the Northern Territory. [From Our Correspondent.] Bathurst. Thursday 6.46 p.m

Evening News · Friday 24 January 1873 · page 2

The inquest on the body of Michael Dynan has terminated, and the jury found that he had been feloniously killed. Warrants are out against three Rivetts, Fishburnes, M'Guire…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 5

BEFORE Messers. G. Hill, Outley, Palmer, Jolly, Smart, and Palser. Five persons were fined for drunkenness. Charles H. Mortimer was charged with obtaining money…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 5

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, and Messrs. Hale, Lester, and Spence. Several persons were fined for drunkenness. Assam, a lascar seaman belonging to the barque Ash…

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Police. Central Police Court. BEFORE the City Magistrates

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 117

Mary Ann Williams was brought before the Court, under the Act for the Relief of Destitute Children, at the instance of her aunt, charged with being under 16 years of age, and residing with prostitutes in a house in Druitt-street. This…

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Water Police Court. BEFORE the Water Police and other Magistrates

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 117

William B. Hennessy, apprehended on warrant charged with embezzling the sum of £13 15s., the property of John Sands, was remanded until Monday next. Bail allowed, himself in £80 and two sureties in £40 each…

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Police Courts This Day Central Police Court. (Before Messrs. J. W. Smart and Cunninghame

Evening News · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 3

Julia Wilson was brought up under warrant arged with being under the age of sixteen years and and habitually wandering about is no ostensible [?] She was discharged…

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Water Police Court.—friday. (Before, Messrs. Hale, Spence, and Lester)

Empire · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 3

A number of drunkards were fined. George Marshall was again brought up, on remand, charged on two warrants of embezzling certain sums of money, amountiug altogether to about £26, and was…

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Queen Elizabeth on Murder

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 12

"We hare been asked for the authority for our statement that Queen Elizabeth proposed the assassination of the Catholic j Queen of Scotland. Elizabeth having…

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Water Police Court. (Before Messrs. Cowper, W.P.M., Charlton, and Leater.)

Evening News · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 3

Seven persons were brought up and fined for drunkenness. Robert DAWES, a boy about eleven years of age, was charged with stealing a pair of boots. The case was…

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The Suspected Murder at Bathurst

Evening News · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 3

FROM the report furnished by the western Independent we extract the following material evidence tendered at the magisterial investigation into the circumstance attendant on the death of Michael Dynan…

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The Court

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 106

Her Majesty made a somewhat protracted visit, to Scotland, and we rejoice to say that, the northern, air produced its usual excellent effect upon her health. The Queen has just returned to Windsor Castle. The Heir Apparent is…

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Insolvency Court. STRRENERS

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 5

Thomas Rogerson, of Lowe's Paddock, near Gulgong, bute[?]r, lately at Trunkey Creek, butcher and innkeeper. Cause at insolvency: Pressure of a judgment creditor. Liabilities, £211 7s 6d. Assets £35 18s [?]½d…

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Insolvency Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 5

SURRENDER.—Herbert Ranger, of Ultimo, late of Shoph[?]d's Paddock, cordial maker. Liabilities, £51 16s.[?]d. Assets, £3. Mr. Sempill, official assignee. MEETINGS OF OREDITORS…

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Insolvency Court.—friday. Surrender

Empire · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 3

Herbert Ranger, Darling-street, Ultimo, cordial maker, late of Pine-street, Shepherd's Paddock, Cause of insolvency: A Supreme Court judgment. Liabilities, £51 16s 6d. Assets, £3. Deficiency, £48 16s 6d. Official…

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The Russian Court. London, January 20

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 114

The Court at St. Petersburg is in mourning on account of the death of Napoleon III…

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Police Reorganization—disorganization. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 9

SIR,—When some six or seven years past,. Mr. Parkes was a prominent member of the then opposition he asserted that were he U* office he would reduce the Estimate for Police by…

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Dreadful Murder by a Woman and Suicide of the Murderess. (From the Wagga Advertiser.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 7

ONE those appalling tragedios that compass the double crime of murder and suicide, was onacted within eight miles of Wagga Wagga on Monday, 20th instant, The particulars connected with this terrible event are so…

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Tub Police Pension Fund. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 10

SIR,—The report of Mr. Robertson's speech, in the Legislative Assembly, when the estimates for the Police establishment were passed, states that the head of that department was not fit to…

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