A Gaol Escapee
At the Goulburn Quartet Sessions on Friday, Thomas Kerr was charged for that he, on the 17th April, 1867, was convicted at the Bathurst Circuit Court on two separate charges of horsestealing, and…
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Attempted Murder
A respectable-looking young man named Joseph Craigon, aged 30, toll-keeper and lessee of Glebe Island Bridge, was charged at the Central Police Court today with feloniously shooting one John Blackwell, with…
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Frederick Treadway, who stands charged with the wilful murder of John Colline, of 99, Stanley-street, Pimlico, was brought up before Mr. Woolrych, at the Westminister Police Court, on December…
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William Cooper, of Woollahra, out of employment. Liabilities, £386 4s. 1d., of which £100 is secured. Assets, £35. Mr. Sempill, official assignee. Henry Auckett, of Mudgee, out of employment…
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George Linsley, of Bucklsnd-street, Waterloo, fellmonger, Cause of sequestration: Want of employment and sickness: liabilities, £40 19s; assets, £29; deficiency, £20 19s. Assignee, Mr. A. Sandeman…
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BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge DOWLING. Mr. W. J. Foster prosecuted for the Crown. SENTENCE. F. A. Thiel, convicted on the previous day, was brought…
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The City Coroner this morning held an inquest at his office, Hyde Park, touching the death of a fireman employed in the locomotive department of the Government Railways, named John Eilliott who was knocked…
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BEFORE Messrs. Hunt, Palmor, Spence, Harri[?], and M'Lean. Thirty-three persons were apprehended for drunkenness during the twenty-four hours ending at 6 a.m. of Sunday,…
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BEFORE Messrs. Curran, Marks, Gray, Goodridge, and Br[?]dribb. Seven persons were fined for drunkenness. George F. Day, James Gorman, Adam Watt, James Stewart, and…
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We are informed that a burglary took place, at half-past 2 o'clock this morning, at the Morpeth and Hinton Hotel, corner of Margaret and Kent streets, and it appears to have been carried out with the customary…
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A particularly cold-blooded murder was committed in Stanley-street, Pimlico, on Saturday, December 16. A young man named Treadaway called on a respectable couple named Collins, was hospitably and kindly…
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The Austrian demand for the extradition of Henri Dieudonne Pierrau de Tourville, on the charge of murdering his second wife, Madeleine de Tourville, on the l6th July last, on the Stelvio Pass, was granted…
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On the turnpike road, wiihin a mile of Hungerford, Inspector Dreweatt and police constable Shorter, of the Berks police force, were brutally murdered by, it is believed, a gang of poachers, who lay in wait for…
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BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge WILKINSON. Causes. The cases on the list for this day, the first on which defended cases were heard, were simple in their character,…
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BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge DOWLING. Mr. W. J. Foster prosecuted for the Crown SENTENCES. Bridget Corrigan, convicted of unlawfully wounding,…
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Li chian Norman Kennedy, of Cope's Creek, near Inverall, tin miner, late of the Palmer diggings, Queensland, Cause of sequastration houses in mining speculations and sickness; [?] assess, £176 19s 8d. Asignee…
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George Black, of Blayney, hay and corn dealer. Causes of insolvency: Pressure of a judgment creditor and inability to work in consequence of an accident. Liabilities, £79 7s. Assets, £32 2s. 6d. Mr. Lyons, official…
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The City Cofoner Mr. H. Shiell) held an inquest yesterday afternoon at Richardson's Dowling street Wharf Hotel, Woolloomooloo, concerning the death of a young gentleman named Robert Hamilton Collins…
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Before Messrs. Helsham, Hughes, Spence, and Smart. Ten persons were fined for drunkenness. Mary Smith and Ellen Scott, charged with having in public places made use of obsoene language, were each…
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Before the "Water Police Magistrate, Lieutenan-Colonel-Maunsell, and Messrs. Reading, Hunt, Neale, and Ridge. Five persons were fined for drunkenness. Mary Jane "Wilson was fined 10s., or four days' gaol, for having been…
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