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Courts & crime, 1884

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Police. Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1884 · page 5

Mr. Clarke, S.M., presided on the bench in the Charge Court yesterday. William Wilton, aged 30 years, on a charge of being found in an outhouse at the Carlton Club Hotel,…

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Central Police Court

Evening News · Wednesday 9 January 1884 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The court was opened at 9 o'clock this morning. There was a large number of cases on the list, but the more important of them were remanded. There were two cases of assault upon constables. A man…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1884 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The Charge Court was provided over by Mr. Buchanan, S.M., yesterday; and the Summons Court by Mr. Addison, S.M. Alfred Ramean, a Frenchman, was charged with having…

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Newtown Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1884 · page 5

Mr. Crane, S.M., occupied the Bench yesterday. John Sparkes, on a charge of stealing a pony, value £15, the property of John Frell, was committed for trial to the Court of Quarter Sessions, being admitted to bail…

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St. Leonards Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1884 · page 5

Mr. J. Milbourne Marsh, S.M., occupied the Bench yesterday. Joseph Dobson pleaded guilty to a charge of drinking liquor on the premises known as the Lily of St. Leonards…

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Alleged Horse-stealing

Evening News · Wednesday 9 January 1884 · page 3

John Sparkes, aged 19, was charged on the 8th instant, at Newtown, before Mr. Crane, S.M., with stealing a horse, the property of Mr. John Free, valued at £15. Mr. Gannon, solicitor, appeared for…

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Magistrate for Parramatta

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1884 · page 2

THOSE of our local columns which deal specially with the daily police court proceedings are often terribly sad reading. And it is small comfort to…

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Supposed Child Murder. Arrest of the Father

Evening News · Wednesday 9 January 1884 · page 5

The city coroner, Mr. H. Shiell, this morning opened an inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of an infant named John Henry Swanbrow, who died on the 7th instant from the result of injuries…

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Parramatta Police Court. Saturday, January 6. (Before Messrs H. Taylor, F. S. Ryan, and R. Harper, J’s-P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1884 · page 2

Two inebriates were dealt with. William Aubrey was fined 6s for drunkenness, and for resisting the constable who apprehended him was fined 20s, the alternatives…

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Law Report. Insolvency Court.—tuesday, January 8. Surrenders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1884 · page 5

William L. Smith, of Gunbar-road, Hilston, assistant storekeeper. Liabilities, £748 10s. 1d. Assets, £5. Mr. Macnab, official assignee. James W. M'Culloch, of Enmore, late of Oxford-street,…

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Tracked; Or, The Bunbury Mystery. a Story of Lone, Money, and Murder. Chapter Xl.—(continued)

Evening News · Wednesday 9 January 1884 · page 7

'Was in it?' restored the prisoner, fiercely. Is in it? you may ask at this moment. If I didn't know I'd irretrievably lost her, I'd fight for my life this minute. You, of course, don't…

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The Magistrates and the Police. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1884 · page 6

Sir,--Ton published a tetter of Mr. J. Woods, reflecting on some of our stipendiary magistrates. I question very much the facts as put by Mr Woods, I am almost certain that no magistrate would…

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Police. Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 January 1884 · page 7

In the Charge Court yesterday the bench was occupied by Mr. G. O'M. Clarke, S.M. After persons guilty of minor offences had been disposed of,…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 January 1884 · page 7

Mr. Addison, S.M., sat in the Charge Court yesterday; and Mr. Buchanan, S.M., in the Small Debts Court. Edward Kelly, a boy 11 years of age, was charged with having been found wandering about the streets in no…

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Redfern Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 January 1884 · page 7

Mr. Clarke, S.M., presided yesterday, and disposed of the usual number of cases of drunkenness, &c. William Wollaghan was fined 20s. and costs 5s. 6d. for permitting liquor to be consumed on his licensed premises,…

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Balmain Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 January 1884 · page 7

Mr. Marsh, S. M., occupied the bench yesterday. Several persons were lined for being drunk and disorderly and using obscene language. John Tomkins, George Billing, Henry Campbell, John Cox, John Harry, Michael Barry,…

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Assault by Larrikins

Evening News · Thursday 10 January 1884 · page 2

A serious assault case, in which three larrikine were concerned, came under the consideration of Messrs. Clark and Crane, at the Central police court to-day. The court was crowded to hear the case, as it had become known that a sensational case…

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Supposed Child Murder

Evening News · Thursday 10 January 1884 · page 2

The following is the remainder of the evidence taken by the coroner yesterday at the inquest on the body of the infant John Henry Swanbrow :—Senior-sergeant Keating, of No. 2 Station. deposed:…

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