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Courts & crime, 1881

3,393 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 170

Law Notices. District Court.—february Sittings, 1881

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 February 1881 · page 8

The February Sittings commence this morning, Tuesday, the 1st, with a list of 367 caaes, No. 1 to No. 867. Those which are undefended will be disposed of as follows:- Tuesday, 1st.—No. 1 will be taken at 10 a.m., finishing with No…

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Law Report. Insolvency Court.—monday, January 31. Surrenders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 February 1881 · page 8

Andrew Anderson, of Illawarra Road, Marrickville, labourer. Liabilities, £22 4s. 2d. Assets, £4. Mr. Sandeman, official assignee. Solomon Byrom, of Bathurst, carpenter. Liabilities,…

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Police. Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1881 · page 7

The Bench on the Criminal side yesterday was composed of Messrs. Dean, Hale, Brown, Nelson, and Graham; and on the Summons side, of Messrs. Lipman, Perdriau, and M'Lean…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1881 · page 7

Yesterday, Messrs. Reading and Hunt presided. Edward F. Warner, charged with wife-desertion, was ordered to pay 10s. a week towards her support for the next 12 months…

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Police Courts. Central Police. Bigamy

Evening News · Wednesday 2 February 1881 · page 3

Yesterday, John Fallen was charged with [?] marrying Ruth Boyd his wife being still alive. Constable O Connor produced a registration copy of a certificate of a marriage solemnised…

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Court of Quarter Sessions.—tuesday. (Before his Honor Mr. District Court Judge DOWLING.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1881 · page 7

The sittings of the Court of Quarter Sessions were resumed at the courthouse, Darlinghurst. Mr. Rogers prosecuted for the Crown. William Daniel was placed upon his trial on a charge of…

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Law Notices. District Court.—wednesday, February 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1881 · page 7

The remainder of the undefended cases will be disposed of this day as follows:—No. 135 will be taken at 10 a.m., finishing with No. 307…

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Law Report. Insolvency Court.—tuesday, February 1. on Petition and Affidavit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1881 · page 7

Charles Price, Gruggan, of Wallabadah, famer and grazier. Schedule to be filed on or before the 11th instant. Mr. Sandoman, official assignee…

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Quarter Sessions. TUESDAY. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Dowling.) Mr. F. E. Rogers prosecutes for the Crown

Evening News · Wednesday 2 February 1881 · page 3

INFLICTING GREVIOUS BODILY HARM Sin Chin, found guilty of inflicting grevious bodily harm on Ah Lee was sentenced to nine months hard labour in Darlinghurst Gaol. Elizabeth Gates…

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Police Courts. Central Police Court

Evening News · Thursday 3 February 1881 · page 2

Yesterday morning John Smith was charged on a warrant with feloniously stealing a locket and necklet, valued at £2 10s, the property of Josephine Harris. It appeared from the evidence that a courtship had…

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Court of Quarter Sessions.—wednesday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1881 · page 7

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Quarter Sessions. WEDNESDAY. (Before His Honor Judge Dowling.) Mr. Rogers and Mr. Pitcairn prosecuted on behalf of the Crown. BURGLARY

Evening News · Thursday 3 February 1881 · page 3

Henry Woods and John Hogan were charged with burglariously entering the Bay View Hotel, Double Bay, and stealing therefrom a bottle of gin. The charge arose from a drunken disturbance, and there…

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Law Report. Insolvency Court.—wednesday, Feb. 2. [?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1881 · page 7

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A Doctor Lynched. a New Mexico Mob Break Open the Gaol and Strangle Him—violent End of a Disreputable Practitioner—assaulting a Helpless Patient

Evening News · Thursday 3 February 1881 · page 4

Denver Col., December 4, 1880.—The details of a shocking story have just been received here from Otera, New Mexico, a little town on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad,…

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"Until you are Dead." (From New York Herald December 11.) AUGUSTUS D. Leighton, the Murderer of Mary Dean, Sentenced to Be Hanged on January 28—The Carrying of Deadly Weapons

Evening News · Thursday 3 February 1881 · page 4

A crowded audience filled the Court of Oyer and Terminer on Monday morning to hear sentence of death pronounced upon Augustus D.Leighton, who was convicted on Friday last of the murder…

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Police Courts. Water Police Court. Assault

Evening News · Friday 4 February 1881 · page 3

Yesterday, Benjamin George, aged 22, described as a dentist, in addition to being fined 1s for drunk and disorderly conduct in the City Bank Hotel, Pitt-street, was fined £5 or two months gaol, for…

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Police. Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 February 1881 · page 6

The Bench was composed, yesterday, on the Criminal side of Messrs. Penfold and Smithers; and on the Summons side, of Messrs. Beaumont, Stanley, Hyam, and O'Connor…

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