Central Police Court. Saturdat
BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Smart and, Cunninghame. Twenty-four persons were fined for drunkenness. Several youths were fined 5s. for discharging fireworks…
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Water Police Court
BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Hunt, Greville, Williams, and Bird. Five persons were each fined 5s. for drunkenness. FOR being drunk and disorderly, Thomas M'Garen, Ellen Tighe,…
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PORTLAND (Victoria), Friday.—Considerable astonishment was caused here by the arrest of M'Donald M'Donald and Kenneth M'Donald, of Ascot Heath Station, near Dartmoor, for stealing…
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On a charge of violently assaulting Edward Vaughan, a [?] named Alexis Dewan, a native of Malta, was on Saturday morning committed for trial at the Water Police Court. The two were drinking on…
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John Muir, alias Parker, alias "The Muls," a young man, was examined at the Water Police Court this morning, by Messrs. Greville, Hunt, and Williams, on Saturday, on a charge of having stolen four…
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At the Water Police Court this morning, before Messrs. Goodridge and Holborrow, a young man, named William Thompson, under the information laid against him by detective Lyons, was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court of Quarter Sessions. This Day. (Before W. H. Wilkinson, Esq. (District Court Judge.) Stealing in a Dwelling
Thomas Johnson, alias Thompson, was charged with having, on the 30th April last, at Sydney, stolen from the dwelling-house of John Georg M'Catney the sum of £20. The prisoner pleaded not guilty…
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Andrew Holt, of Deniliquia, produce merchant. Cause of sequestiation. An ar[?] and losses in business. Liabilities, £[?] 5d; assets, £3 6s. Arrgnee, Mr. A. Sandeman…
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Adelia Collis, 11; William Collis, 9; and Alice Collia, 7, deserted children, were brought up at the Central Police Court this morning for protection. It appears that their [?]other recently died, and since…
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Martin Donoghue, of Vegetable Crook, [?] tualler. Liabilities, £981 3s. 4d. Assets, £155. Mr. Lyons, official assign[?]. George Palmer, of East Maitland, saddler. Liabilities,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coroner's Court. SATURDAY. Fatal Railway Accident
The City Coroner held an inquest at the Brecknock Arms, Lower George-street, respecting the death of George Bourne, aged 27 years, who was killed by falling off the engine of the southern mail train, when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Criminal Court. Monday, May 27. (Before His Honor Mr. Justice Hargraves.) the Hyde Park Riot Case
William Stritch. John Foley, Patrick Griffin, Philip Staple[?] William Hall, Alexander Murphy, and Henry Sherids a were charged with a riotous as semblage on Hyde Park on the 10th March last. The…
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BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Davies, Harris, R. C. Murray, and Hunt. Fifty-nine persons were fined for drunkenness; forty of the number were locked up before 6 a.m. on Sunday…
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BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Holborow and Goodridge. Thirteen inebriate[?] were each fined 5s., with the customary alternatives of imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court of Quarter Sessions. MONDAY. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson.) Stealing in a Dwelling
Thomas Johnson, alias Thompson, was charged with having, on the 30th April last, at Sydney, stolen from the dwelling-house of John George M'Cartney the sum of £20. The prisoner pleaded not guilty…
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Patrick Barry was charged with having assaulted and ro[?]ed one George Mem of a watch and money. The prisoner was convicted, and, as the gaol report was not a favourable one, he was sentenced to five…
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THE following points of interest were not mentioned in our reports of the District Court proceedings last week:- MITCHELL V. CROGHAN was an issue from the Supreme Court. Mr. Levy, solicitor, appeared for the plaintiff; Mr…
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Before his Honor Mr. Justice FAUCETT and a jury of four. KINGSBURY V. HALKETT. This trial, for slander, was not concluded. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Condemned Criminals in Goulburn Gaol. May 27
John Glass, who was sentenced to death in April, at the Goulburn Circuit Court, for capital offence committed on Mary M'Cormack, is in high spirits at the commutation of his sentence. This evening he looked like on slowly…
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BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. In the matter of John Lane, and adjourned examination meeting. John Lane, being examined by Mr. M'Culloch, on behalf of the petitioning creditor, deposed that he resided…
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