Central Police Court
BEFORE Messrs. Waugh, Connell, Murray, Smithers, Lester, Alexander, and Beaumont. Twelve persons were fined 5s. each for drunkenness; and Mary White, charged with using indecent language, was…
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Water Police Court
BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Solomon, Bird, M'Beath, and Gray. Several drunkards were brought before the Court and fined in the usual amounts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Committal for Libel on the Police Magistrate of Bathurst
A CHARGE of libel was brought against Daniel Mayne, a publican of Bathurst, and the proprietor of a newspapor published in that town, called the Sentinel, for the hearing of which a full Bench was…
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DEATHS FROM NATURAL CAUSES.—The City Coroner held an inquiry yesterday morning, at the Benevolent Asylum, Pitt-street, respecting the death, of a child named Elizabeth Singleton, aged six weeks. It appeared from the evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cooktown Murder.—-Further Par- ticulars
At the inquest held on the body of Thomas Green, who had been murdered at Doughboy Creek, near Cooktown, the following evidence was given, showing a case of diabolical atrocity:—Sergeant…
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BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. His Honor directed that the matter of Louis Solomon's application for certificate should be entered for further consideration on the 22nd instant, and that notice should be…
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BEFORE His Honor Mr. Justice HARGRAVE. The Attorney-General prosecuted for the Crown, assisted by Mr. Carroll. THF COOLAH BANK ROBBERY…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Law. Supreme Court.—wednesday, May 16. Sittings for Causes. Banco Court
BEFORE his Honor Sir WILLIAM MANNING and a jury of four. CAMPBELL V. KING AND M'DONALD. This was an action on five promissory notes overdue and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Insolvency Court. This Day. Surrenders
Arthur Percy Manton, draftsman, Survey Office, of Woollahra, late of Woolloomooloo. Cause of sequestration: Losses in mining, &c., Liabilities, £755; assets, £20; deficiency, £730. Assignee, Mr. F. T. Humphrey…
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Before his Honor Mr. Justice FAUCETT and a jury of four. JOHNSON V. BICKNELL. The trial of this case was not concluded when the Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coroner's Court. This Day. Found Drowned
The City Coroner this morning held an inquest at the Observer Tavern, Lower George-street, touching the death of a man, name unknown, whose body was found floating in Sydney Cove yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Criminal Court. Thursday. The Coolah Bank Robbery
John Duncan, Thomas Duncan, and Frank Reilly were charged, first, with having, on the 16th February last, feloniously entered the dwelling-house known as the Commercial Bank, at Coolah, and stolen therefrom…
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Before the Water Police Magistrate and Messrs. Lester, Palmer, Smart, M'Mahon, Solomon, Morgan, Manning, and Goodridge. James Padden was fined 10s., or four days' gaol, for…
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Before Messrs. Jolly, Reading, Holborow, and Neale. Thirteen persons were fined for drunkenness. Elizabeth Galvin, convicted of having used obscene language, was sentenced to pay a penalty of 20s., or to be…
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Santa Paula Cal. March 24.—T. Wallace Moore was brutally murdered last night, about half-past three o'clock, at his ranch, eight miles east of here. The parties first set fire to his barn, which…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Police Courts. This Day. Water Police Court. (Before Messrs. Marsh, W.P.M.. and Hunt, J.P.)
Edwin Davis, 25, a tailor, was fined 10s or four days for drunkenness, 40s or seven days for ruing obscene language, and 40s for assaulting Constable Ryan while in the execution of his duty…
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A DESPERATE murder was committed at Doughboy Creek, six miles from Byerstown, on Sunday night, the 27th April; and from the following evidence taken at the Police-court, Byerstown, before Mr. W. R. O. Hill, P.M., on the 1st…
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DEATH BY DROWNING.—Yesterday, at the Observer Tavern, Lower George-street. Mr. Shiell, the City Coroner, held an inquest on the body of a man whoso name is unknown. Frederick George Young, water police constable,…
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Before his Honor Mr. JUSTICE FAUCETT and a jury of four. JOHNSON V. BICKELL. Jury: Messrs. Alexander Wilson, Charles Lomaire, C…
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THE following cases haye been adjudicated during tho week:— In Sevil v. Heath, an action by the owner of the run called Mooki Springs, on the Liverpool Plains,…
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