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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1873

4,273 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 214

Law and Police. Metropolitan Quarter Sessions

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 April 1873 · page 466

BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge DOWLING. Mr. W. J. Foster prosecuted for the Crown. PLEADED GUILTY. Edward Gleeson was charged with having, at Sydney, on…

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Insolvency Court. Meeting of Creditors

Empire · Saturday 12 April 1873 · page 3

Saturday, April 12.—Holiday. Monday, April 14,—Holiday. Monday, April 14, at 11 a.m.—Before the District Commissioner: Adam Cameron Dalgleish, first and…

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Insolvency Court. BEFORE the Chief Commissioner

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 April 1873 · page 466

In the estate of Herbert Ranger, an adjourned special meeting. One debt was proved. In the estate of Herbert Ranger, an adjourned meeting. Insolvent was examined by Mr. Driver on behalf of the…

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Quarter Sessions Thursday. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Dowling.)

Evening News · Saturday 12 April 1873 · page 3

Mr. W. J. Foster prosecuted for the Crown. Regina v. Jarvis At 9 o'clock this morning his Honor took his seat up on the bench, and the jury, who had been looked up…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 April 1873 · page 3

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Smart and Cunninghame. Twenty-five persons were fined for drunkenness, in sums varying from 2s. 6d. to 20s.; and one of them, Jam[?]…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 April 1873 · page 3

BEFORE Mr. R. A. Hunt. Twelve persons apprehended for being drunk in the streets were discharged. Two men, named Foster and Loft[?] were each fined 20[?]…

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Water Police Court.—saturday. (Before Mr. Hunt.)

Empire · Monday 14 April 1873 · page 3

John Cassidy, was brought up on a charge of wilfully breaking a window, and was remanded until Tuesday next. A large number of persons charged with drunkenness…

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Horsewhipping in Court

Empire · Monday 14 April 1873 · page 3

The Ballarat Conrier,— 8th April, reports the case of a man horsewhipping his daughter, during the sitting of the County Court on Monday. His Honor, Judge Hogers, the meinbers of the bar, and the suitors in…

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Central Police Court—saturday. (Before Captain Scott, P.M., with Messrs. J. W. Smart and Cunninghame.)

Empire · Monday 14 April 1873 · page 3

Henry Gedge, allas Dickson, was brought up, charged with, stealing sundry articles of jewellery, the property of Edward Joseph Norris, about the 18th of March last. Detective Lyons produced two pairs of…

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Insolvency Court. Meetings of Creditors

Empire · Monday 14 April 1873 · page 3

Monday, April 14.—Holiday. Monday, April 14, at ll a.m.—Before the District Commissioner: Adam Cameron Dalgleish, first and only meeting, at Glen Innes…

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The Bathurst Cricket Match. Release of Kabat on Bail. the Cheltenham Encampment. Latest Melbourne Betting. Meetings at Gulgong, &c. the Melbourne Yacht Race. Armidale Circuit Court. Tin and Gold From Queensland. Latest From Port Darwin. the Adelaide Wheat Market. &c., &c., &c. BATHURST. Saturday, 9.6 p.m

Evening News · Monday 14 April 1873 · page 2

The weather ia the morning was very wet, and the Cricket Match did not commence till 1 o'clock. The result of the play was as follows:— Bathurst, all out for 63. University, three out…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 April 1873 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Pinhey and Guy. Twenty-six persons were fined in sums varying from 1s. to 10s. for drunkenness, or for riotous behavious, or for…

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Police Court This Day. Central Police Court. (Before Capt. Scott, P.M., with Messrs. Smart, Evans, Kinnax. and Charlton.)

Evening News · Tuesday 15 April 1873 · page 2

Thomas J. Donohue and George Cooke were each fine 20s, or seven days' imprisonment, for being drunk and disorderly. Ann Northcote, in addition to being sent to gaol for…

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Coroner's Court.—monday

Empire · Tuesday 15 April 1873 · page 2

THE city coroner held an inquest on Monday morning at the Observer Tarera, Lower George-street, concerning the death of a Chinaman, named Low Hung, whose budy was lying at the dead-house, Circular Quay…

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Insolvency Court. Meetings of Creditors

Empire · Tuesday 15 April 1873 · page 2

Tuesday, April 15, at 11 a.m.—Before the District Commissioner; William Myles, second meeting, at Goulbura. Tuesday, April 15, at 11 a.m.—Before the Chief…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 April 1873 · page 5

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Evans, Kippax, Charlton, Smart, and Love. Eight persons were fined for drunkenness. Ann Northcott, described as a vagrant, was found guilty…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 April 1873 · page 5

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Meyer, Lister, Hunt, and S. Goold. Of eleven drunkards brought before the Court, one was discharged, seven were fined 5s. each or two days'…

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Romantic Attempt at Burglary

Evening News · Wednesday 16 April 1873 · page 3
Also in Empire

A romantic family reunion on last Christmas Eve is recorded by the San Francisco Bulletin. About ten years ago two brothers left their borne in Illinois and came to California. The elder was a man of most…

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Daring Robbery of a Safe from a Police Court

Evening News · Wednesday 16 April 1873 · page 3

FARLY on the morning of Saturday last, the 12th instant, says the Mudgee Times, Mr. Miller, the lock-up keeper, gave the alarm that the safe in the clerk of patty sessions room had been stolen, in fact carried…

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