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Courts & crime, 1877

2,475 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 124

Confession of Murder Committed 45 Years Ago

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 27

William Delahunty, an old man who, on the 17th of last month, gave himself into the custody of the police at Livepool upon confession of the murder of Richard Kennedy, at Stenecarthy, county…

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Court Receptions in Turkey

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 2

IN Europe social life is diversified by court receptions, the opera, the theatre, balls, dinner-partis, garden-parties, rides and drives, wales, shopping, church-going, and foreign travel. All these have…

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Law. Insolvency Court

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

BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. In the matter of Henry Wilson Blomfield, a special meeting. Debts proved: John Henry Innes, £180; Lassetter and Co., £12 10s. 4d. One claim was held over for…

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English and Foreign the Court

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

THE Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne opened, on Friday 5, at Brighton, a new school of art and science, which has been erected at public expense. The weather was fine though cloudy, and grant euthusiasm prevailed…

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Insolvency Court. This Day. Schedules [?]Iled

Evening News · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 5

Charles Thomas Sandon, of George-street, bookseller and stationer. Liabilities, £16,745 16s 3d: assets, £2 [?] 10s 7d; deficiency, £14 [?] 5s 8d. Insolvent's leasehold property is valued at £[?], and his personal property at £1474…

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The Procession Which the Police Did Not Stop

Sydney Punch · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 2

When Bailey and Cooper proposed to parade Up King-street and Pitt-street, their progress was stayed ; The Bobbies, drawn up in terrible baud, Arrested their progress with truncheon in hand…

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Law. Metropolitan Quarter Sessions. Before Mr. District Court Judge DOWLING, Mr. W. J. Foster prosecuted for the Crown. Attempting to Commit Suicide

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 440

Henry Trout pleaded guilty to the charge of having attempted to commit suicide on the 21th of February last, at Sydney, and was remanded for sentence. STEALING IN A DWELLING…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1877 · page 7

BEFORE Messrs. Hunt, Taylor, and Greville. Seven persons were fined for drunkenness. William Leggett, seaman, was sentenced to one week's imprisonment, for having been absent without leave from…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1877 · page 7

BEFORE Messrs. Cunninghame, Pinhey, Aaron, and Hughes. Twelve persons were fined for drunknness. One of these, Selina Curtis, was further charged with using…

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Burglary in Sussex-street

Evening News · Monday 9 April 1877 · page 2

At the Central Police Court, to-day, before Mr. G. R. M'Lean, a young man, named William Burns, was charged with a man, name unknown, with having feloniously and burglariously broken into and entered the…

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The Assault Case Withers v. Freeman

Evening News · Monday 9 April 1877 · page 2

The hearing of this case was resumed at the Water Police Court this morning, before the Police Magistrate and Messrs. Letter and Goolrich. Mr. Simpson, instructed by Messrs. Heron and Thompson,…

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Police Courts. Central Polios Court. This Day. (Before Messrs Pearce, Hunt, and Harris.)

Evening News · Monday 9 April 1877 · page 3

Henry Marshall, 80, for offending against decency, in George street, was fined 20s or 7 days' gaol. John Harlock, 23, for smoking iu Belmere Markets on Saturday was fined 5s or two days gaol. and for…

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Coonabarabran Murder. (From the Dubble Dispatch.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1877 · page 7

AT the Dubbo Circuit Court, on Thursday, before Acting Judge M. H. Stephen, Thomas Newman was charged with having, at Ulamambri, near Coonabarabran, on the 18th February, 1877, wilfully, feloniously, and of malice…

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Law. Insolvency Court. Saturday. [?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1877 · page 7

Emmell Washington [?] of Cooma, builder and Contractor, [?] which £79 18s. 7d, is secured. Assets, [?] Mr. Sempill, official assignee…

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Insolvency Court. This Day. Surrender

Evening News · Monday 9 April 1877 · page 3

Charles Francis Franks, of Morriset-street, Bathurst Cause of sequestration : Falling off of business as an [?]keeper and losses in such busines. Ligbilities, £274 4s 7d assets 18s 5d; deficiency, £238 2d. Assiguce…

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Quarter Sessions. This Day. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Dowling and juries of twelve.) Mr. W. J. Foster prosecuted for the Crown

Evening News · Monday 9 April 1877 · page 3

William Henry Booth and Robert C Crawford, found guilty of uttering a forged cheque, were sentenced, the first-named to two years' bard labour in Darlinghurst gaol, and the other three year hard labour in…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 April 1877 · page 7

BEFORE Messrs. Hunt, Spence, Harris, Josephson, and M'Lean. Thiryt-eight persons were charged with drunkenness, eleven of whom were apprehended during the twenty-four…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 April 1877 · page 7

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Mr. Goodridge. Ten persons were fined for drunkenness. Marian Hunt and Richard Martin were each fined 10s., or four days' gaol, for having been drunk and disorderly…

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Criminal Assault

Evening News · Tuesday 10 April 1877 · page 2

A serious charge of criminal assault was heard at the Central Police Court this morning, before Mr. G R. Maclean. Two young men, William Burns, 20 years old, and John Joseph Mack, 23 years old, an agent by…

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Burglary at the South Head Road

Evening News · Tuesday 10 April 1877 · page 2

A daring burglary was effected on Sunday evening last at the house of Mr. Ingifs, a colonial wine seller, who resides at 88, Oxford street. It appears from the statement of Miss Inglis, that on the evening…

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