Quarter Sessions. WEDNESDAY. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Dowling.) EMBEZZLEMENT
Evening News · Thursday 31 May 1877 · page 3
Floriano Zuccam was charged with having embezzled certain monies, to wit, on the 2nd March last £2, on the same date £1 10s, and on the 6th of the same month an order for the payment of £3 6s, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coroner's Court. the Late Fire in Victoria-street.—committad for Arson
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 May 1877 · page 7
YESTERDAY morning the City Coroner concluded his inquiry, at his office, Hyde Park, into the origin of the fire on the premises of Joseph. O'Neill, in Victoria-street, on the morning of the 17th May. Mr. Want, instructed by Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Central Police Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 June 1877 · page 3
BEFORE Messrs. Thompson, Waugh, and R. Murray. Eleven persons were charged with drunkenness; two were admonished and nine were fined. Before Messrs. Lester, Connell, Alexander, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Water Police Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 June 1877 · page 3
BEFORE Messrs. Hunt, Davies. M'Beath, and Charlton. Eight persons were fined for dr[?]kenness. Peter Stuart, seaman, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, with hard labour, for stealing from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wollongong Murder and Suicide
Evening News · Friday 1 June 1877 · page 2
The following evidence given by Senior-sergeant Ford at the inquest on the bodies of the man Brawn and his two children, reveals the nature of the terrible calamity reported from Wollongong. The officer said:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Insolvency Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 June 1877 · page 3
BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONERS. Mr. M'Carthy, at the instance of the Australian Joint Stock Bank, applied that a rule nisi should be made absolute for the compulsory sequestration of the estate of william…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Law. Supreme Court. Sittings Fo Causes, Thursday, May 31. Banco Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 June 1877 · page 3
BEFORE his Honor the CHIEF JUSTICE and a jury of four. M'RICKARD AND ANOTHER V. CURRAN. Jury: Messrs. Joseph Wyatt, Henry Perdrian, Walter Honderson, and George Bennett…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Insolvency Court. This Day. Surrenders
Evening News · Friday 1 June 1877 · page 3
William John Hamill, of Pitt-street, Waterloo. Cause of sequestration. Pressure of a casa creditor. Liabilities, £652 7s 3d: assets, £45. Deficiency, £607 7s 3d. Assignee, Mr. F. T. Humphrey…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coroner's Court. This Day. Death by Poisoning
Evening News · Friday 1 June 1877 · page 3
The City Coroner, this morning, held an inquest at the Golden Age Hotel, George-street, touching the death of a young man named Thomas Byrnes, who poisoned himself with an over dose of carbolic acid,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Quarter Sessions. This Day. (Before His Honor Mr. District Court Judge Dowling.) False Pretences
Evening News · Friday 1 June 1877 · page 3
The trial or Madeleme Thomas, alias Kenny, which commenced yesterday afternoon, was continued to-day. The prisoner was charged with having, on the 13th January last, obtained from Samuel Cantor the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Central Police Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 8
BEFORE Messrs. Oatley, Neale, Holborow, and Ridge. On the summons paper were twenty-six cases, of which four were withdrawn. George Lincoln and Robert Laws were fined 20s., each for using obscene language. Patrick…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Water Police Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 8
BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Messrs. Lester and Goodridge. Seven persons were fined for drunkenness. Christopher Hodges was brought up under warrant,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Criminal Assault
Evening News · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 4
William Cleary was charged at the Central Police Court, to-day, with having indecently assaulted, on the night of the 25th May, one Mary Loveday. The prisoner whose age was registered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tweed Preparing to Leave Gaol
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 699
New York, April 17.—Active preparations are said to be in progress at Ludlow-street gaol looking to an early release of Tweed. He Las packed his books, pictures, and other appointments, and is ready to leave whenever the pending…
Continued on Trove, page 699 →Supposed Murder near Wollongong
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 19
OUR correspondent forwards us the following particulars of a terrible outrage committed near Wollongong. The place where the murder of the man Brauen…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Coroner's Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 8
YESTERDAY forenoon Mr. Shioll, the City Coroner, held an inquiry at the Gold Age Hotel, Lower George-street, on the body of Thomas Byrnos, a draper's assistant, twenty-six years of age. Margaret Byrnes, the mother of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wholesale Baby Farming and Suspected Murder
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 27
At the Liverpool Police-court recently, Sophia Martha Todd, about 35 years of age, and of respectable and ladylike appearance, was charged on suspicion with having caused the death of a child…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Insolvency Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 8
BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. In the matter of Joseph Hall, a third meeting. No debts were proved, no directions given, and the meeting terminated…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Metropolitan District Court
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 8
BEFORE his Honor Mr. Judge DOWLING. Booth v. Macdonald, slander, £50. Mr. Vardy appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Cooper for the defendant. His Honor, after hearing evidence, entered a verdict for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Insolvency Court. This Day. [?]
Evening News · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 5
Patrick Stanton, of 123, King-street, hotel proprietor. Cause of sequestra[?]ion: Insolvent attributes his insolvency of Montague Levi Sa[?]mon, which prevented him from carrying out his agreement with him; pressure of the…
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