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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1877

2,475 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 124

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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:…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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