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Courts & crime, 1878

2,994 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 150

Insolvency Court. This Day. Compulsory Seouestration

Evening News · Thursday 7 February 1878 · page 3

In the petition of Isaac Jacobs, Isaac Feldheim, and Moritz Gotthelf, trading as L. Jacobs and Co., of Hunter-street, praying that the estate of Mattanish Kerr, of Rylstone, saddler, should be seqnestrated for…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 February 1878 · page 6

BEFORE Messrs. Thompson and Connell. Eighteen persons were fined for drunkenness. Joseph Russell was fined 5s. for indecent behaviour, and Catherine Single and Emily Sweetman were fined 20s. each…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 February 1878 · page 6

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate and Messrs. Solomon, R. C. Murray, Davies, M'Beath, Charlton, and Edwards. Six persons were fined for drunkenness. Edward M'Caffery, one of the prisoners fined for…

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An Extraordinary Assault Case

Evening News · Friday 8 February 1878 · page 2

ONE of the snort extraordinary and exciting cases that has come before the police for some time in Sydney, has been heard at the Central Police Court, before Messrs. Michael Chapmen, John Solomon, David…

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Law. Insolvency Court. Thursday, Surrenders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 February 1878 · page 6

Alfred Luton, of Rosebrook, shepherd. Causes of insolvency: Sickness in family, want of employment, and loss of a sum of money. Liabilitics, £16 13s. Assets. £16 10s. Mr. S. Lyons, official assignee…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 2

BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, and Messrs. Smart, Charlton, and R. C. Murray. Two persons were fined for drunkenness. Richard Coghlan was fined 5s., or two days in gaol, for…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs Jolly, Reading, and Parnell. Eight persons were fined for drunkenness. Andrew Green, one of the persons fined for drunkenness, was fur her found guilty of having endangered public…

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A Singular Scene. Six Children Before the Supreme Court on a Charge of Murder

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 43

One of the strangest spectacles ever witnessed in a judicial tribunal was seen in the Supreme Court yesterday. It was the presence of six children charged with murder, who were brought…

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Coroner’s Inquest. Death at the Gaol

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 6

The District Coroner (Mr. J. E. Bowden) held an inquest at the Parramatta Gaol on Monday, on the body of a prisoner gained Joseph Naughton, then…

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Supreme Court

Evening News · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 4

List of Causes for February Sittings, 1878.—Jury Court: Hayes v. Pacific M.S.S. Company, Cheater v. Adams, Lyons v. Coberoft, Sempill v. Dodds, Kelly v. Mount and others, Ashdown v…

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Coroner's Court

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 13

A woman named Elizabeth Naven, sixty years of age, wife of Robert Naven, Barker's Lane, off Bathurst-street died at her residence about a quarter-past 3 o'clock on Monday morning. Mrs. Pointer, who…

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Small Debts’ Court

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 3

M. Kinine v. Querin School.—For goods sold and delivered. Verdict for plaintiff, £3 5s. M. Kinane v. E. Whybrow.—The…

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Police Court. Monday, February 4, 1877. (Before Messrs Langley, Taylor, and Miller, J’s.P.) Horses Straying

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 6

Seven persons were dealt with for [?] above offence. DRUNKENNESS. Michael Foley was fined 5s. or 24 hours…

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Law. Court of Quarter Sessions. Before Mr. District Court Judge WILKINSON

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 175

Mr. F. E. Rogers prosecuted for the Crown. James Platt was charged with having, on the 1st January, inflicted grievous bodily harm on Alexander Patten. Sentenced to five months' imprisonment in Darlinghurst gaol…

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Personal at Tendance at Court

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 6

IN a recent issue we recorded that a resident of Parramatta had been summoned to the Police Court on a charge of permitting a horse to stray, and that…

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Insolvency Court. This Day. Surrenders

Evening News · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 5

Patrick Anthony Dickson, of 75, Prices-street, clerk in the General Post Office. Cause of sequestration: Pressure of a creditor, under a writ of at. sa. Liabilities, £178 10s; assets, £10. Assignee, Mr. A. Sandeman…

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Law. Insolvency Court. Friday. Surrender

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 2

William Bode, of 226, George-street, Sydney, tobacconist. Canses of insolvency: Sickness in family, falling off of business, and bad debts. Liabilities, £216 11s. 9½d. Assots, £60 10s. Mr. F. T. Humphery official assignee. l…

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Fearful Tragedy.—Supposed Double Murder at Port Stephens. [By Electric Telegraph.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 42

STROUD, Monday 6 p.m.—A fearful tragedy has come to light. Mr. M'Ashill, the wharfinger at Booral, seven miles from Stroud, was found in a gully brutally murdered; likewise his house was…

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Rules of the Supreme Court Relating to the Admission of Attorneys

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 5

WE have been furnished with a set of rules, published by the Government Printer, in pamphlet form, under the above heading, which have been lately framed by their Honors the Judges of the Supreme Court after a petition…

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Small Debts’ Court. (Before Messrs J. J. Riley and Lethbridge, J.’s P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 3

Two cases—JohnPaskin v. J. Crosier, for meat supplied ; and same v. Mullard —were postponed till next sittings…

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