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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1876

2,681 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 135

Insolvency Court. This Day. Surrenders

Evening News · Tuesday 1 February 1876 · page 3

William John Stephenson, of Church-street, Parramatta, bootmaker.—Cause of sequestration: Losses in manufacturing materials, sickness in family, falling off of business, and the inability to meet the first of a set of…

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Law. Court of Quarter Sessions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 February 1876 · page 7

BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge WILKINSON. Mr. W. J. Foster prosecuted for the Crown. PLEADED GUILTY. On the prisoners being arraigned, the following persons…

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Quarter Sessions. Monday. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson.) Mr. W. J. Forster prosecuted for the Crown

Evening News · Tuesday 1 February 1876 · page 3

ASSAULT AND ROS[?]RY. A young man named John O'Brien was arraigned on a charge of assaulting Daniel O'Sullivan and robbing him of fain boots. The facts in this case were reported…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1876 · page 9

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Messrs. Solomon, Paxton, Smith, Reading, Hunt, Neale, Montefiore, Renwick, and Mullins. Four persons were fined for drunkenness…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1876 · page 9

BEFORE Messrs. Evans Linsley, and Hughes. Eleven persons were fined for drunkenness. James Smith, charged with indecont conduct in Hyde Park, between the hours of 10 and 11 last night, was…

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Police Courts This Day. Central Police Court

Evening News · Wednesday 2 February 1876 · page 3

(Before Captain Scott., P.M., and Messrs. Chapman, Guy, M'Beath, Curran, Renwick, Gorus, Murray, Jolly, and Reading. Acting Sub-Inspector Bush prosecuted in cases…

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Insolvency Court. Tuesday. Surrenders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1876 · page 9

[?] Sam, of Forbes, surgeon. Liabilities, £1130 lbs. Assets, £14 16s. Benjamin Priggins, of Dowling-street, Sydney. Liabilities, £149 10s. 6d. Assets, £61 5s. 6d…

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Insolvency Court. This Day. Surrenders

Evening News · Wednesday 2 February 1876 · page 3

Louis Young, of Tamworth, carpenter. Cause of sequestration—Want of imployment and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £32 7s 8d ; assets, £10 ; deticiency, £22 7s 8d. Official assignee, Mr. S. Lyons…

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La[?] Court of Quarter Se[?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1876 · page 9

BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge WILKINSON. Mr. W. J. Foster presented for the Crown. KILLING A HORSE. Smith Bennett was charged with having, at Lane Cove,…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1876 · page 7

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Messrs. M'Beath, Paxton, Smith, Solomon, and Goldring. Six persons were lined for drunkenness. Annie Ruddell, 19, for having made use of obscene…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1876 · page 7

BEFORE Messrs.—Curran, Gorus, Renwick, Murray, and Evans. Three persons were fined for drunkenness; seven other persons, charged for the first time with the offence, were…

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Quarter Sessions. Wednesday. Assault

Evening News · Thursday 3 February 1876 · page 3

John Gardiner, charged with having, on December 31st, assaulted and beaten one Maxwell M'Kee, master and owner of the ketch Collingwood, was found guilty of a common assault, and remanded for sentence. At midnight on Now…

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District Court Causes

Evening News · Thursday 3 February 1876 · page 2

The February Sitting of the District Court commenced this morning, with a list of 734 cases. To-day, the undefended cases, from No. 1 to 359 was disposed of. To-morrow (Friday), No. 360 will not be taken…

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Insolvency Court. Wednesday. Surrenders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1876 · page 7

John Schofield, of Sydney, dealer. Liabilites, £236 16s. 8½d. Assets, £11 7s. 6d. Mr. Humphery, official assignee. John Francis Tres[?], of Sydney, late produce agent,…

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Insolvency Court. This Day. Surrender

Evening News · Thursday 3 February 1876 · page 3

William Moran, of Grenfell (late of Seventeen Mile, near Young). licensed publican. Cause of sequestration: Pressure of Messrs. De Lissa and Co., of Sydney, who have sued in the Supreme Court to recover £102 6s…

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Law. Court of Quarter Sessions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1876 · page 7

BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge WILKINSON. Mr. W. J. Foster prosecuted for the Crown. LARCENY. Joseph Bowden was charged with having, on or about…

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Police Courts. Central Police Court. Thursday. (Before the Polios Magistrate, with Messrs. Lester

Evening News · Friday 4 February 1876 · page 3

Ridge, Smithers, Thompson, Wangh, and Vickery.) Inspector Seymour prosecuted in 31 cases wherein defendants were charged with breaches of the inflicted…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 February 1876 · page 7

BEFORE Messrs. Thompson, Waugh, and Vickery. Fifteen persons were fined for drunkenness, one of whom, Edward Fieland, was further charged with having while drunk assaulted one John Adams, and, pleading guilty,…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 February 1876 · page 7

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Messrs. Oatley, Solomon, Charlton, and Bird. Two persons were fined for drunkenness. Peter Robinson, an old man, pleaded guilty to the…

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Another Randwick Assault Cases

Evening News · Friday 4 February 1876 · page 2

At the Water Police Court this morning the Police Magistrate and Messrs. Strarf[?] Flood, and Montefiore, William Hugh Cadd[?]tant schoolmaster at the Randwick Destitute [?]…

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