Metropolitan District Court
BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge JOSEPHSON. READ V. CA[?]UTHERS. This was an action in which Mr. John Cecil Read, as executor in the estate of the late Robert Hancock, sued to…
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Court of Quarter Sessions
BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge WILKINSON. CORPORATION APPEALS. Appeals against assessments for city and water rates were heard, Mr. Driver appearing [?]n behalf of the…
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Lewis Moore, junior, of York-crescent, Petersham, [?]ger lats of [?]. Cause of expe[?]tion: Pressure of a judgement [?] under a writ of [?] Liabilities £11[?] 12s 6d; [?] Mr. S. Lyons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury Circuit Court. [From Our Correspondent.]
THIS Court was opened on Monday last by his Honor [?] Chief Justice: Mr. O[?] [?] the briefs for the Crown. The following were the cases disposed of:—George Davis, a young man, about 20 years of age, pleaded [?]…
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There was but little business at the Water Police Court this morning. Half-a-dozen inebriates were punished. One of the inebriates gloried in the fact of his being a night watchman, and the revolver, keys…
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BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Jolly, Parnell, Spence, and Harris. Ten persons were fined for drunkenness: one of whom, Alice Rowley, was also charged with using obscene…
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IF Mr. DRIVER'S representations about the management of Berrima gaol were accepted as being "as true as gospel itself," the conclusion would be that the governor of that…
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DRUNKENNESS. — John McAlister Thomas Smith, John Murphy, and Michael Codd, brought tip for drunkenness were admonished and discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court. Monday, April 6.(Before Messrs. Stewart and Golledge J’s.P.) DRUNKENNESS
One offender, brought up the first time, was discharged. Henry Moxham .pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and was fined 5s. or…
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George Thomas Collins, of Morongle Creek, near Cowra. Sickness, &c. Liabilities, £45 7s 5d; assets, £23 1s 10d. Assignee Mr. S. Lyons. COMPULSORY SEQUESTRATION…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court. Tuesday, April 9. (Before Messrs Robert Dick and Ed. Raper, J’s.P.)
BREACH OF PUBLICANS ACT. — William Wallis Douglass, for allowing disorderly conduct in his licensed house at McGrath’s Hill on Sunday, the 31st March, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →POSTSCRIPT. Late Telegrams. The Tallewang-Murder Case
MUDGEE, Saturday.—In the case of Peter Anderson, charged with the Tallewang murder, the court was occupied yesterday till half-pest 11 o'clock. A verdict of sot guilty was returned, after…
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BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. In the matter of William Burton, deceased, a third meeting. No further debts were proved; the official assignee read his report; no directions were given, and the…
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Mr. F. E. Rogers and Mr. Smythe prosecuted for the Crown. Catherine Carter was charged with having, on the 11th March, stolen from John Manning £3 10s., his property…
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THE City Coroner on Thursday at the Observer Tavern Lower George-street, held an inquest respecting the circumstances attending the death of a man, name unknown, who was run over at Burwood by the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Law. Supreme Court.—friday, April 5. Matrimonial and Divorce Causes Court. Before his Honor Mr. Justice Hargrave. Mulcahy V. Mulcahy and M'lelland
This was a suit for a dissolution of marriage, in which Martin Mulcahy was the petitioner, Ann Mulcahy the respondent, and Andrew M'Lelland the co-respondent. The issues to be tried were (1) marriage and (2) adultery…
Continued on Trove, page 487 →Divorce Court. Friday, April 5. (Before Mr. Justice Hargrave.) MULCAHY V. Mulcahy and M'clelland
This was a suit for a divorce by the husband against the wife. The petitioner was Martin Mulcahy, of Woolomin, near Bowling-alley Point, farmer. The respondent was Ann Mulcahy, his wife,…
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At this court to-day a number of persons were summarily [?]it with for being drunk, and several for being drunk and disorderly. Honorah Irwin was charged with indecent behaviour in Harrington…
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Clara L. Hodgdon, a female physician, was arrested at San Francisco, on the 17th, upon a felony, for having it is alleged caused the death of Emma Downer, of 306, Eighteenth-street, by means of a…
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