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Courts & crime, 1884

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Central Police Court

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1884 · page 7

Mr G. O'Malley Clark, S.M., dealt with the business at the Central on Saturday, and cleared the sheets in a little over an hour. OBSCENITY…

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Redfern Police Court

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1884 · page 7

At the Redfern Police Court on Saturday, Mr Clark, S.M., presiding, Patrick Bunch was charged with stealing a silver watch, valued at £3 10s, from Francis Carroll. From the evidence of the…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1884 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr. Marsh, S.M., disposed of the business on Saturday. William Ireland was charged with having committed an assault on Constable Osborne whilst in the execution of his duty. It appeared that the prisoner was a noterious…

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Stealing a Watch

Evening News · Monday 7 January 1884 · page 6

At the Redfern police court on Friday, before Mr. Clarke, S.M., a young man named Patrick Bunch was charged with stealing a watch, the property of Francis Carroll. The prosecutor deposed that he was a…

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Assault With Intent

Evening News · Monday 7 January 1884 · page 6

Two young men, named George Barnes and Thomas Spencer, were charged at the Redfern police court on Friday with assaulting, with intent to rob. Thomas Monteith. From the evidence of the prosecutor,…

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A Peculiar Assault Case

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1884 · page 5

At the Redfern Police Court on Friday, before Mr Clark, S.M., two young men named George Barnes and Thomas Spencer were charged with assaulting, with intent to rob, one Thomas Monteith…

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The New Insolvenoy Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1884 · page 5

The inoonvenience and stuffiness of the dark and dusty little chamber in the Supreme Court which for so many years has served the purpose of hearing causes in insolvonoy, has long been a matter of just complaint, and the…

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Tracked; Or, The Bunbury Mystery. a Story/of Love, Money, and Murder. Chapter Xxxviii. Mr. Cudemore's Arrest

Evening News · Monday 7 January 1884 · page 7

On his way home from the Syringa Music Hall, after his final rebuff from Mrs. Foxborough, Mr. Cudemore first awoke to the fact that he was dogged. A rather less expert tracker than Old…

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Police. Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1884 · page 5

Mr. G. O'M. Clarke, S.M., disposed of the business of the Charge Court yesterday, and Mr. Crane, S.M., dealt with a number of small debts cases. Albert Pinkstone, 46 years, canvasser, on a charge of…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1884 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr. Buch[?]an, S.M., sat in the Charge Court, and Mr. Addison in the Summons Court, yesterday. Norman M'Ke[?]ie, a seaman, for having used indecent language in a public place, was fined £5; in default, three…

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Central Police Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1884 · page 6

Mr Crane sat in the summons court yesterday, and disposed of the small debts business. Mr O'Malley Clark presided on the charge side. No very serious misdemeanours were dealt with…

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Balmain Police Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1884 · page 6

Mr. Marsh, S.M., presided at this court yesterday. Thomas' Ramsay was fined £5, with alternative of three months in gaol, for using obscene language, and for being drunk 10[?] or 48 hours,…

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Dastardly Assault. PARRAMATTA

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1884 · page 2

A cowardly and unprovoked assault was committed on Edward Howell, a member of the Parramatta Volunteer Fire Brigade, by a man named John Denmead. The latter threw a stone…

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Murder in Fiji

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1884 · page 2

The Tavi[?]ni correspondent of the Suva Times sends the following particulars of the lamentable catastrophe which has recently taken place there: Mr H. Hulton of Sogoula plantation was assasinated…

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Murder of Suicide ?

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1884 · page 2

Yesterday, about 5 a.m., the body of a man was found on the steps of Cowper Wharf, Woolloomooloo Bay, where the Manly boats arrive and depart. The body was that of James Phelps who…

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Murderous Assault in Fiji. Suicide of the Assailants

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1884 · page 5

News is to hand from Savu Savu (says the Fiji Times of the 26th ult.) of a murderous attack which was made in the early part of last week by three Fijians upon Mr Volmer, and its singular…

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District Court Changes

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1884 · page 3

Mr. District Court Judge Forbes will act as chairman at the next Quarter Sessions, in the place of Judge Wilkinson. Judge Josephson has had two months' extra leave of absence granted him. The…

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TRACKED; The Bunbury Mystery. a Story of Love, Money, and Murder. Chapter Xl. a Cudemore's Confession

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1884 · page 4

It has occurred to many of us to carry our lives in our hands at times. In the savage surges of the Mid-Atlantic. In the fierce tempestuous Storms that rage round either of the famous…

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