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Courts & crime, 1877

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 April 1877 · page 7

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrite, with Messrs. Palmer, Josephson, and Senior. A number of persons found drunk in public place were severally fined…

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Woolloomooloo Assault Case

Evening News · Thursday 5 April 1877 · page 2

The case against Henry Jones, of unlawfully wounding one James Beaney, was further dealt with as the Water Police Court this morning, before the Police Magistrate and Lieut Colonel Mounsell, ands…

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Police Courts. This Day. Central Police Court. (Before Messrs. Lester, Waugh, and Murray.)

Evening News · Thursday 5 April 1877 · page 2

William Bilfield, 50, a labourer, for obscenity in Belmore Park, was sent to gaol for three months. Michael O'Brien, alias Johnston, 23, for being drunk in Hyde park, was fined 20s or 7 days in gaol, and for…

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Law. Insolvency Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 April 1877 · page 7

BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. In the matter of Richard Todd, a single meeting. One debt was proved: Joseph Smith, £10 6s. 2d. The…

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Court of Quarter Sessions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 April 1877 · page 7

BEFORE Mr. District Court judge DOWLING. Mr. W. J. Foster prosecuted for the Crown. SENTENCES. The man named James Regan, who on the previous day…

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Insolvency Court. This Day. (Before Mr. Chief Commissioner Ddeffell.) LAUBESFALDE v. Joseph George Wood

Evening News · Thursday 5 April 1877 · page 2

The adjourned hearing of the order nist for compulsory sequestration, granted on February 17 was resumed and the order made absolute, and the insolvent Wood ordered to file his schedule within three days after service of that order…

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Police Courts. This Day. Water Police Court. (Before the Police Magistrate, and Messrs. Leaster and Goodrich.)

Evening News · Friday 6 April 1877 · page 2

DAvid A.S. Cowper and Mary Hayes, being of an sound mind, were brought up for protection, and remanded for medical treatment on the certificates of Dr. Igan and Dr. Dansey…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 April 1877 · page 12

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Maunsell, Charlton, Palmer. Oatley, M'Beath, Murray, Davies, and Hunt. A number of drunkwards were severally fined…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 April 1877 · page 12

BEFORE Messrs Lester, Beaumont, and Murray. Fifteen persons were fined for drunkenness. Michalel O'Brien and Thomas Bell, charged with using obscene language, were each sentenced to pay 20s., or to be…

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Insolvency Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 April 1877 · page 12

BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. On the application of Mr. W. Russell, at the instance of H G. Von Laubenfelde, there being no objection, his Honor made absolute an order nisi for the compulsory…

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Law. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 April 1877 · page 11

GOLDLET AND ANOTHER V. FOWLER. The following are the judgments delivered in this case:- The CHIEF JUSTICE said:…

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Insolvency Court. This Day. Petition and Affidavit

Evening News · Friday 6 April 1877 · page 2

Thomas Adam, of Raymond Terrace, trading as Adam and Sons. saw mill proprietors. Cause of sequestration; Inability to satisfy a judgment obtained by a creditor, losses upon a building contract, and fall…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 6

BEFORE, the Wafer Police Magistrate and Messrs. Lester, Senior, and Goodridge. Three persons were fined for drunkenness. Mary Hayes and David A. S. Cooper were brought up…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 6

BEFORE Messrs. Jolly nnd R. C. Murray. Ten persons were fined for drunkenness. Henry Carter, charged with using obscene language, was sentenced to pay a penalty of 10s., or to be imprisoned four…

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Daring Burglary Episode at Echuca

Evening News · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 4

A telegram from Echuca says:—Three Melbourne burglars have paid this district a visit, and have succeeded in sticking up several selectors between Echuca and the Gouburn River, and robbing their houses, and…

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Police Courts. Central Police Court. This Day. (Before Messrs Cunningham, Grey, and Hughes.)

Evening News · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 5

[?] Ann Smith, 24, was charged with stealing an overcoat, valued at £2 10s. The property of William Brown. It appeared that prosecutor entered prisoner's house, and left the house without his coat. He was refused…

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The Court

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 26

Her Majesty, who is in excellent health, returned to Osborne on the 9th, after opening Parliament. On the 9th, the Queen arrived at Buckingham Palace. On the preceding day the…

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Assault on a Member of the Chinese Legation

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 426

A drunken Irishman was incited on January 31 by, according to his own account, a spirit of religious intolerance, to commit an assault on the servant of one of the attaches to the recently arrived Chinese Legation. Chaag…

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Insolvency Court. SURRENDERS

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 9

Joseph Jarrett, of Rocky Mouth, Clarence River, carpenter. Cause of sequestrali s:—Losses in contract and pressrne of creditors. Lia illities, £336 13s 10½ 1; assets, £71 6s,; defic ency, £265 7s 10¼d. Assignee, Mr. F. t. Humphrey…

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Lord Penzance's Court

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 427

The status of Lord Penzanee is thus explained in an, extract from a private letter written by Mr. Montague: Bernard and published by the Guardian:—Lord Penzance has been appointed by the two Archbishops, under the…

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