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Courts & crime, 1878

2,994 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 150

Law. Supreme Court.—friday, May 31. Sittings for Causes. Banco Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 8

BEFORE his Honor Sir WILLIAM MANNING and a jury of four. O'HARE V. POWER. The trial of this case was not conclided when the Court…

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Court of Quarter Sessions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 8

THE May sittings of the Court of Quarter Sessions for the Sydney district were resumed to-day, Mr. District Court Judge WILKINSON acting as Chairman. Mr. F. E. Rogers prosecuted for the Crown…

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Matrimonial and Divorce Causes Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 8

Before his Honor Mr. Justice HARGRAVE. CLIFTON V. CLIFTON. When this cause was called on it appealed that at the last moment the respondent had appeared, and his Honor…

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Police Court. (Before Messrs. J. J. Riley, E J. Wilshire, J. S. Smith, W. K . Gibbons; and J. K.Cleeve, J. P’s.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 3

OBSCENE LANGUAGE.— Thomas Price was fined 5s, and 5s 6d costs, or 24 hours’ imprisonment. INDECENCY.— Jessa Turner was fined…

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In the Supreme Court of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 8

Friday, the thirty-first day of May, in the year of our thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight. The present sittings are hereby extended till Monday next, and thenceforth until the conclusion of the cause the New Zealand…

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Court of Quarter Sessions. Attempt to Commit Suicide

Evening News · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 4

Herman Schroder was charged with attempting to commit [?]de. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Docker. It will be recollected that accused, who had been drinking very heavily, took a quantity of…

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Law. Central Criminal Court. Before his Honor Sir "William Manning. Sentences

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 779

George Baldwin, who had been found guilty of shooting witg intent to kill, was brought out for sentence. The The sentence of the Court was that he be imprisoned for two years, with hard labour, in Darlinghurst gaol…

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Great Medical Law Suit. Supreme Court.—may 27, 28, AND 29. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Faucett and a Jury of Four.) KINGSBURY V. HALKETT

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 11

THIS is one of the most important and extraordinary actions affecting the interests of the medical profession that has been heard for many years, Throughout the trial the court has been uncomfortably…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 June 1878 · page 3

BEFORE the Water Polico Magistrate and Messrs Hunt, [?]lton, Grevil[?] and Taylor. Three persons were [?]ined 5s. each, with cos[?]s, for drunkenness…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 June 1878 · page 3

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Smart and Cunninghame. Twenty persons were fined for drunkenness, and one, le[?] Fisher, convicted of being an habitual dr[?]ard,…

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Insolvency Court. Meetings of Creditors

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 June 1878 · page 3

Mo[?]y, June 3, at 11 a.m.—Before the Chi[?] [?] [?]ert Golds[?]in, adjourned examination. Before the District C[?]issioner: At Mudgee, William Patrick, first and only; [?]am Luck, same: at Bom[?] Tob[?] Tyler, same; at…

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Quarter Sessions Monday, June 3, 1878. (Before District Court Judge Wilkinson.) Unlawfully Wounding

Evening News · Monday 3 June 1878 · page 3

Charles Cecil was charged with unlawfully wounding one Arthur Anderson. The prisoner and Anderson were working together on a new building, when prisoner was directed to do something by Anderson,…

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Divorce Court. This Day. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Hargrave and a Jury of Twelve.) CRISPIN V. CRISPIN

Evening News · Monday 3 June 1878 · page 3

This is a suit for a dissolution of marriage brought by William Crispin, of Grafton, against his wife, Mary Ann Crispin, formerly Mary Ann Hitchens. James Howard was joined as co-respondent…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1878 · page 3

BEFORE the Water Police Megistrate and Messrs. Holborow, Gray, and Goodridge. Thirty-two persons were fined 5s. each, or two days' imprisonment, for being drunk; Bridget Mullally, for the…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1878 · page 3

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. David, Hunt, Maclean, and Smart. Sixty-two persona were fined for drunkenness. Margaret Turner was fined 10s., Thomas Chavil, John…

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Strange Murder Trial

Evening News · Tuesday 4 June 1878 · page 3

Columbia, S.C., March 14.—At the Court of General Sessions for Edgefield county, in this State, which is now sitting at Edgefield Court House, the remarkable spectacle was presented, two days…

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Jury Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1878 · page 3

Before his Honor Mr. Justice FAUCETT and a jury of four. MURRAY V. DUNLOP. The trial of this acton was resumed. When the Court…

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Insolvency Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1878 · page 3

BEFORE the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. In the matter of Albert Goldstein, an examination meeting. Mr. S. C. Brown appeared for the official assignee, and examined Elizabeth Jacobs, who deposed that she was…

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Sittings for Causes. Banco Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1878 · page 3

[?] his Honor Sir WILLIAM MANNING and a jury of [?] O'HARE V[?] POWER. J[?] Messrs. P. M'Quellin, A. J. Goodwin, W. Beer,…

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Court of Quarter Sessions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1878 · page 3

THE May sittings of the Court of Quarter Sessions for the Sydney district were resumed to-day, before Mr. District Court Judgo WILKINSON. Mr. F. E. Rogers prosecuted for the Crown…

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