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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1877

2,475 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 124

Murder at the Hodgkinson Goldfields

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 January 1877 · page 24

AT the Criminal Sessions of the Northern Queensland Supreme Court, held on the 16th December, before his Honor Mr. Justice Shephard, Ebenezer Gibson was indicted for having, on the night of the 5th September…

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Insolvency Court. SURRENDERS

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 January 1877 · page 12

William Hogan, of 3, Eveleigh Terrace, Abercrombie-street, draughtsman in the Surveyor-General's Office. Cause of sequestration, pressure of two judgment creditors. Liabilities, £162 19s 7d; assets, £70. Deficiency, £92 19s 7d…

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Coroner's Court. This Day. Fatal Accident

Evening News · Saturday 6 January 1877 · page 5

The City Coroner, yesterday, held an inquest at Baukstown, concerning the death of a man named John Walter Roberts, who was found in a dying state early last Wednesday morning on the Liverpool road, and…

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Law. Insolvency Court. Friday. Petition and Schedule

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1877 · page 8

Manes Cannon, of Waverley," dairyman. Cause of insolvency: Pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £158 18s. 9d. Assets, £50 11s 9d. Daficiency, £108 7s. Mr. R. H. Sempill, official assignee…

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Law. Court of Quarter Sessions. Before Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson. Mr, W. J. Foster prosecuted for the Crown. EMBEZZLEMENT

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1877 · page 19

George Bruce was indicted for having, on the 30th September last, embezzled £2, the property of William Robertson and Thomas Allen, and within two months thereafter a further sum of £b, auo the property of the same persons…

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Supreme Court

Evening News · Sunday 7 January 1877 · page 2

For some time past the larrikinism that has been carried on in front of and under the Supreme Court colonade at night-time, has become of such a disgraceful nature as to need police interference. The dwarf…

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Coroner's Court This Day. Killed by a Fall from a Cab

Evening News · Sunday 7 January 1877 · page 3

The City Coroner this morning held an inquest at Richardson's, Dowling-street Wharf Hotel. Woolloomooloo, concerning the death of a cabman named Patrick M'Keogh, who died in the Infirmary last…

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Central Police Court

Evening News · Tuesday 9 January 1877 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At the Central Police Court, this morning, a young woman named Elizabeth Miller, a domestic servant employed at the Bay View Lunatic Asylum, was committed for trial to the Quarter Sessions on a…

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The Water Police Court

Evening News · Tuesday 9 January 1877 · page 2

Some very great and necessary improvements have been effected at the Water Police Court, and now it presents quite a respectable appearance. The whole of the charge court has been renovated, the canopy over…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1877 · page 6

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with M[?]ssrs. Curran, Marks, Mac Mahon, and Hill. Four insbri[?]te[?] were fined 5s. each, two were fined 10s. each, or four days in the lockup…

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Alleged Serious Assault

Evening News · Tuesday 9 January 1877 · page 2

A man of respectable appearance named William Cook was brought up at the Water Police Court this morning on a charge of unlawfully inflicting grievous bodily harm on one Elizabeth Blakey. The proceedings,…

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Insolvency Court. Tis Day. Surrender

Evening News · Tuesday 9 January 1877 · page 2

Thomas [?] of lcely, near Orange, mine's Cause of sequestration. lo[?]es in mining. Liabilities, £48. Assets, £19, Deficiency, £9. Assignee. Mr. S. Lyons. COMPULSORY SEQUESTRATION…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1877 · page 7

BEFORE Messrs. Hunt, Reading, Renwick, and Smith. One inebriate was fined 5s., or two hours in the lock-up, and another 1s. Billy Rotumah, a native of the Marquesas Islands, was…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1877 · page 7

BEFORE Messrs. Woods, Bai[?]ey, Tucker, Cohon, Heleham, and Mills. Twelve persons were fined for drunkennes; one of whom Francis Gray, was charged by Constable Butler, on…

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Murder of the Turkish Consul at Tiflis

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1877 · page 7

A horrible crime has just been committed at Tiflis the, capital ef Georgia, and ceat of the Russian Government in the Caucasus. On the night of October 23 a gang of ruffians entered the Ottoman…

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Law. Insolvency Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1877 · page 7

[?]EFORE the CHEF COMMISSIONER. SURRENDER. Thomas Birch, of Icely, near Orange, miner. Causes of insolvency: Sickness losses in mining, and pressure of…

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The New Appellate Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1877 · page 8

Tuesday, November 21, will be memorable in the [?]story of the House of Lords and in the judical annals of England as well. On that day the Upper House sat as a Court of Appellate Jurisdiction, for the first time, since its…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1877 · page 7

BEFORE Messrs Cu[?]an and Renwick. Twenty-one persons were lined for drunkeness. Francis Murphy was brought before the Court, on warrant, at the instance of his wife, who complained that he had put…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1877 · page 7

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Mr Senior [?]nebriate was fined 5s, or two days in the lockup. Eighteen Chinese sailors were charged with combining to disobey orders on board the mail-boat City of Sydney…

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