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Courts & crime, 1883

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Police! No. 3

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 18

IT is by no means easy to say wherein lies the weakest, and consequently the most vulnerable point of our New South Wales Police, as an institution, there being so many holes pickable in its…

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Important Arrest for Murder

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 10

LONDON, January 14.—Mr. Carey, one of the members of the Dublin Council, has been arrested for murder, on the testimony of an informer…

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Plot to Murder the Sultan

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 10

CONSTANTINOPLE, January 16.—It is currently reported that an attempt to assassinate the Sultan was made yesterday. It appears that a party of Circassians had nearly effected an…

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Penrith Police Court. BEFORE Messrs. J. D. Single, and J. Shand, J's.P

Nepean Times · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 2

W. McKenzie, A. Neale, and W. Watley were charged with behaving in a riotous manner in High Street on the night of the 9th instant…

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Contempp[?] of Court

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 9

LONDON, January 11.—The proprietors of "The Times " and the "Observer" have been summoned for contempt of court in commenting upon the Chamberlain-Boyd [?] case, during [?]…

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Murder of Professor Palmer and His Party

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 138

The follow ing further information has been elicited during the investigation which is being conducted by Colonel Warren into the circumstances of the murder of Professor Palmer, Captain Gill, and Lieutenant Charrington. It will…

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Parramatta Police Court. Wednesday, January 17. (Before Messrs. J. Taylor And Fu[?]tch, J.’s P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 4

MICHAEL WIELDING, locked up for protection, was charged with being a vagrant, and was remanded to gaol for seven days to obtain medical treatment…

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Fire at Hampton Court Palace

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 137

London, December 14.—Early this morning names ware discovered issuing from the front windows of Hampton Court Royal Palace, at Hampton, fifteen miles from London The fire broke out in a suite of private apartments in the…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.--friday, January 19. in Chambers. (Before Mr. Justice Faucett.) CASTNER V. Howlett and Another

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 7

Mr. Rogers, for the trustees of the assigned estate of Howlett, applied for an order for an interpleader to issue. Plaintiff obtained a verdict against defendants for £271, and had instructed the sheriff to seize…

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Law Report. Supreme Court. In Equity.—(Before his Houor the Primary Judge.) Brown and Others V. Patterson and Others

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 11

This was a suit for an injunction to restrain the defendants from trespassing upon certain land, and from removing any minerals therefrom until the determination of plaintiffs' appeal to the Privy Council. The hearing took place on…

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Police. Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1883 · page 5

Mr. Dillon, S.M., presided on the bench in the Charge Court on Saturday morning. A number of cases of drunkeness w[?]re deal with. Ellen Tippen, on a charge of having used obscene…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1883 · page 5

Mr. Addison, S.M., presided on Saturday. Seventeen charges of druukeness were "disposed of. John Sinnott, charged with using threatening language towards his wife, Eliza Sinnott, was bound over to keep…

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The Anarchists Sentenced

Evening News · Monday 22 January 1883 · page 2

LYONS, January 19.—The trial of the prisoners charged with complicity in the Anarchist outbreak has concluded. Prince Krapotkene and the other leaders of the movement were sentenced to…

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The Anarchists Sentenced. Lyons, January 19

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1883 · page 3

The trial of the prisoners charged with complicity in the anarchist outbreak has concluded. Prince Krapotkene and other leaders of the movement were sentenced to five years, and the…

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The Anarchists Sentenced. Lyons, Jan. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1883 · page 7

The trial of the prisoners charged with complicity in the a[?]archist outbreak has concluded. Prince Krapotkinc and other leaders of the movement were sentenced to…

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Police. Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1883 · page 9

Mr. [?] S.M., presided on the bench in the Charge Court yesterday. [?] on a charge of having incited a prisoner to resist a constable in the execution of his duty, was fined…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1883 · page 9

The Charge Court yesterday was presided over by Mr. Buchanan, J.P. James Crompton, plasterer, for using indecent language in the bar of the New Wharf Hotel, King-street, was fined £5…

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Newtown Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1883 · page 9

Yesterday, before Mr. Crane, S.M., Charles M'Carthey, for being drunk, was fined 5s., or imprisonment until the rising of the court; for using obscene language he was fined 20s., with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment…

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A New Criminal Court

Evening News · Tuesday 23 January 1883 · page 2

THESE are not many people who consider the Licensing Act as a great and unmitigated success. Those who do admire it probably regard it as a Heaven-sent inspiration of the late Premier's,…

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The Press, the Court, and the Parliament

Evening News · Tuesday 23 January 1883 · page 2

A case of considerable interest in certain circles was heard tins morning on the summons side of the Central Police Court, before Mr, Clarke, S.M. The defendant, O. H. Hamby, is sub-editor of the…

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