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Courts & crime, 1880

3,369 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 169

Police Court Amenities. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 April 1880 · page 6

Sir,—Under the above heading your reporter has in a remarkable paragraph describod some of the proceedings in the Water Police Court yesterday; and, sensational as the paragraph is, I am bound to admit that on the whole it not…

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Bathurst Circuit Court

Evening News · Monday 26 April 1880 · page 2

BATHURST, Monday.—James Poul[?]n, who was indicted at the Circuit Court for murdering his children at Wattle Flat, was found guilty and sentenced to death. In gumming up His Honor…

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Metropolitan District Court.—april 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 April 1880 · page 6

Supreme Court Issues.—Stafford v. Scitz, Johnson[?], Cripps…

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Insolvency Court. This Day. Surrender

Evening News · Monday 26 April 1880 · page 2

Samuell Hosker, late of Balranald, hawken now of Sydney. Liabilities, £816; aseete, £59 9s. Cause of insolvency; Sicknese, and lose in trade. W. Sandeman, offi[?]ial assignee…

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Coroner's Court. a Sailor Drowned

Evening News · Monday 26 April 1880 · page 3

The City Coroner held an inquest this morning at the Brcoknock Arms Hotel, on the remains of a seaman of the P. and O. Co.'s steamship Sorato, who was drowned on Friday morning last, at the Ciroul[?]…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court.—monday, April 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 April 1880 · page 6

Prothonotary's Office.—For Taxation: M'Phail v. Darby, at 10.30; Leary v. Craig and wife, at 10:45; Morrison and another v. Child and another, 11.15; Farmer and others v. Brown, at 11.45; Bank New South Wales v. Harnett, at 12, same v. Talbot, at…

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Law Report. Insolvency Court.—saturday, April 24. Surrenders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 April 1880 · page 6

Thomas Spike, of Yarra, near Goulburn. Liabilities, £32 6s. 10d.; assets, £5. Mr. Sandeman, official assignee. John Rix, of Camden, butcher. Liabilities, £237…

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The British Court at the Melbourne Exhibition. London, April 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 April 1880 · page 5

The Right Hon. Hugh Childers has renewed his pressure for the appointment of a Royal Commission to take charge of the British Court at the Melbourne International…

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Police. Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 3

Yesterday the Police Magistrate was assisted in the Crime Court by Messrs. Pearce, Hunt, Harris, Carter, Moses, and Maclean; and in the Summons Court by Messrs. Fraser, Bull, and Alexander…

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Police Courts. Central Police Court

Evening News · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 2

This morning Messre, D[?] and Bardin presided, and 19 offenders against so[?] and law and order were mulcted in the usual pen[?] A boy named Erra Plate, the driver of a baker's cart, was…

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Newtown Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 3

Mr. William Jolly and Dr. Tucker presided on the bench yesterday. Elizabeth Ann Allen was charged with being of unsound mind. Defendant, on Friday evening, threw herself…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 3
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Yesterday, Messrs. W. C.Browne, Goodridge, Holborow, and Gray presided. Sarah, M' Bride, a woman aged 43, was, fined 40s., of ordered to be imprisoned for 14 days, for indecent…

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Wholesale Cattle Stealing

Evening News · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 2

GRAFTON, Tuesday.—Wholesale cattle stealing is reported to be taking place in the vicinity of Copmanburst. A selector named Hunter hus lost 150 bond in one mob, two of which hove been…

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"Police Court Amenities." to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 3

Sir,—Under the above heading, in Saturday's Herald, Sir George Innes is reported to have said—and he tacitly endorses the statement by making no reference to it in his letter in your issue of to-day-" It simply was monstrous…

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Maitland Circuit Court

Evening News · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 2

MAITLAND, Tuesday.—The following business was transacted this morning. White, for the Maitland and Murrurundi bebbery, was sentenced to 18 months' ga[?]. Moore was acquitted…

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Insolvency Court. This Day. Surrender

Evening News · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 2

Fredo[?]ck William Walter Gainsford, Forest Reef, deer Orange. Lisbiliti[?] £206 0s 10d; assets, £39 19s. Cause of insolvency; Lossea in bu[?] as a butcher, and in ining [?]tions. Mr…

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Metropolitan District Court.—monday. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Josephson.) (Supreme Court Issues.) J. JOHNSON A. JOHN F. CRIPPS

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 3

Plaintiff sued defendant for £100 due on goods sold and delivered. Verdict for plaintiff for £40 2s. STAFFORD v. SEITZ. This was an action in which Mary Grace Stafford sued…

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The Double Murder at Wattle Flat. the Prisoner Condemned to Death

Evening News · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 3

THE trial of Joseph Polsom for the wilful murder of his two children at Wattle Flat, on the 6th March, took place at Bathurst on the 24th April; before his Honor Mr. Acting Justice Stephen. Mr. M'Intosh…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court.—tuesday, April 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 3

Chamber List.—F. Lassettcr and Co. (limited) v. M'Donald, Downie v. Broad and another. Protbonotaty's Office, for taxation.—Goodsell and another v. List, at 10.30; Trevena v. Wilcombe and another, at 10.45;…

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