Metropolitan District Court
BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge DOWLING. Several ca. sa., interpleader, and new trial motions were heard and disposed of. JAMES V. CRAFT…
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Law. Supreme Court.—february 15. Sittings for Causes. Banco Court
BEFORE his Honor Sir WILLIAM MANNING and a jury of four. LYONS (OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE) V. FRIEDMAN. The trial of this action was not finished when the Court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Supreme Court. MONDAY,FEBRUARY ll
Before his Honor Sir W. M: Manning and a jury, of four, sitting in Banco Court for trial of causes. An action of considerable importance to owners of wharves and vessels was concluded on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Matrimonial and Divorce Causes Court.—friday
BEFORE his Honor Mr. Justice HARGRAVE. The two matters set down for the settlement of the issues were postponed, as notice of the intended motions had not been duly served on all the necessary parties…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coroner's Court. Friday. a Strange Case
To-day the City Coroner held an inquest at the Observer Tavern, Lower George street, respecting the death of a man, name unknown, whose body was found in a quarry hole on [?]est side of the Ultimo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Quarter Sessions. Tuesday, February 12, 1878. (Before his Honor Judge Wilkinson. —Crown Prosecutor, Mr. Edward Lee.) Indecent Assault
John Docking, junr., was charged with having committed an in[?]ecent assault upon one Wood. The evidence given in the case is unfit for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Law. Central Criminal Court. Before hiS Honor the Chief Justice
The February sittings of the Central Criminal Court commenced this morning before his Honor the Chief Justice. The calendar comprises about seventeen cases, and some of them are very heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 207 →District Court. Wednesday, February 13, 1878. (Before his Honor Judge Wilkinson.)
This Court opened with three cases continued from last year and new cases, of which four were defended. DUCKER V. DOL[?]LL…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Criminal Court. THURSDAY. Before His Honor Sir James Martin, Knight, Chief Justice.) Unlawfully Wounding
Thomas Franklin was indicted for that he did on the 17th November, 1877, unlawfully and maliciously wound one James John Sullivan, with intent then and there to do him some grievous bodily harm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Vice-Admiralty Court. Monday, February ll. (Before the Judge Commissary, Sir James Martin.) Re Vessel. Loelia
This was a suit instituted for the avibstraction of wages due for South Sea Island seamen, named respectively, Wy-e-men, War-moab, Goo-no-liggi, and Wy-e-men, known as Sammy. The simple facts of…
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BEFORE Messrs. Hunt and Greville. Five persons were fined for drunkenness. Louisa, Olson was fined 20s., with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment for having made use of…
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BEFORE Messrs. Smart and Cunninghame. Twenty-two persons were fined for drunkenness. Five persons charged with using obseene language were sentenced as follows:—Matilda Doig, Jane Newman, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burglary in Sydney. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—The " Innocents at Home," by Mark Twain, chapter 47, contains the account of the death of a desperado, in the following terms:— "On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the…
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The eases Sandeman v. Cohen, in the Banco Court, and Lyons v. Friedman, in the Jury Court, were proceeding when we went to press…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Murder Near Gulgong. [From Our Correspondent.]
ON Saturday last our townspeople were thrown into a state of excitement by the report that a horrible murder had been committed at Ta[?]lewang. Senior-constable Richard Henry Oliver, with constable Goodyer, were at once dispatched to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Insolvency Court. This Day. Surrender
William Hughes, of 153, Clarence-street, bill pester. Cause of ecquestration: Adverse judgment recorded against insolvent in the District for £15 and costs. Liabilities, £137 19s; assets…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Law. Insolvency Court. Meetings of Creditors
Mondy, February 18, at 11 a.m.—Before the Chief Commissioner: John M'Gregor. adjourned examination; Frederick Hugh Thomas, same; Augustus Klein, special examination of Insolvent and a witness; Fere[?]iand Augustus Von Hammer,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Criminal Court. MONDAY (Before His Honor Sir James Martin, Knight, Chief Justice.) the Hancock Will Case
At the opening of the court this moraine, the Hancock will cue was called on, when James Marshall, Charles John Braithwaite, James Ferguson, James Conlon, and Mary Ann Burton surrendered…
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BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Hunt, Spence, and Davies. Fifty-nine persons were fined for drunkenness. James Dillon, besides being fined 20s. for drunkenness, was fined…
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BEFORE Messrs. Holborow, Lester, Goodridge, and Manning. One inebriate was ordered to be imprisoned until the rising of the Court; twelve inebriates were each fined 5s. or two…
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