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Courts & crime, 1884

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 9

Mr. Marsh, S. M., disposed of the business in the Charge Court yesterday; and Mr. Addison, S. M., dealt with a number of cases in the Summons Court. Sevral persons were dealt with for drunkenness, and some…

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Redfern Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 9

Yesterday Mr. O'Malley Clarke, S.M., occupied the bench. Michael M'Knight, 16, was fined 5s., or 24 hours' imprisonment, for riotous behavious in Bullanaming-street…

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Stealing

Evening News · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 6

The charge against Charles Pearce for stealing a handbag containing 11s in money and a handkerchief, from Annie Preston, was finally dealt with at the Redfern court on Wednesday. Patrick Flanagan…

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Penrith Police Court. Tuesday, March 22

Nepean Times · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 2

BHFORE their worships J. D. Single and J. K. Cleeve, Js.P. Archibald Hoyd and Mrs. George Taylor were charged by Henry Haigh, with destroying a screen,…

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Scene in the Water Police Court

Evening News · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 5

A remarkable scene occurred in the Water police summons court on Friday morning. Mr. Addison, S.M., who occupied the bench, was bearing a case of cruelty to a dog, for the defence in which Mr…

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A Magistrate Threatens

Evening News · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 4

In the Assembly last night Mr. Cohen, in answer to Mr. A. G. Taylor, said that Mr. Porrott, the police magistrate at Waratah, threatened to shoot some persons who were continually throwing stones at his…

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Assault and Robbery

Evening News · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 4

At the Water police court on Friday morning, before Mr. Marsh, W.P.M., a low-looking man, named James Wallings, was charged with assaulting and robbing one Thomas Ryemill, and taking from…

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Indecent Assault on the Railway

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 27

AT the Contrai Criminal court, on the 13th, Thomas Goff was charged with indecently assaulting Mary Elizabeth Hooporin a railway carriage, near Culcairn, on January 30 last. Prisoner was conductor of the…

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Police Intelligence

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 6

At the Central Police Court yesterday Mary Anne M'Gowan, for having no lawful visible means of support, was ordered to be imprisoned for six months…

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Court Martial

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 5

Yesterday morning, at 8 o'clock, the firing of a gun, and the hoisting of the Union Jack on H.M.S. Nelson, the flagship in the Australian station, announced that a court-martial bad commenced on…

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Police Court. Tuesday, March 13. (Before Messrs.' Johnson and' Mackenzie, J’s.P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 3

A prohibition restraining publicans and others from supplying D. McDonald with liquor was grandad. Mrs. Cooper, for using obscene language,…

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Another Personal Assault. by Electric Telegraph.] Newcastle, Thursday night

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 16

This morning a married woman namea Priscilla Hume, residing at Adamstown, was accosted by a man while passing through a piece of bush, who asked the way to Charlestown. While Mrs…

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Insolvency Court. SURRENDERS

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 13

Edward Percy Field, of Sydney, barrister-at-Iaw Liabilities, £593; assets, £292. Mr. Lloyd, official assignee. Howland Donglas, of Blue Gum Flat, Brisbane…

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Flogging at Darlinghurst Gaol. a Garrotter Receives 23 Lashes

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 5

Yesterday af ernoon, the prisoner Carne, who, in addition to a sentence for garrotting of 10 years' penal servitude, was ordered to be whipped three times, received his first instalment of 25 lashes, in…

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Parramatta Police Court. Friday, March 31. (Before Messrs C. L[?]. H. Taylor, [?] A. [?], J’s.P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 4

[?]Windsor, was charged with a [?] of tools the property of S[?] Midgley, Plain[?] [?] Gla[?]vills deposed that be…

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Supreme Court. MARCH 14

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 558

His Honor Mr. Justice Innes was occupied all day in the case of Johnston v. Campbell. The evidence for the defence me completed, and evidence in reply was given on behalf of plaintiff. In the action Coglan v. Thompson,…

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Results of Gambling. a Melbourne Youth Sent to Gaol. Melbourne

Evening News · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 4

A young man named John Pearson, formerly a clerk to Messrs. Sprague and Slade, the wellknown, sharebrokers, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for embezzment. He…

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Metropolitan District Court.—friday. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Forbes.) Bayliss V. De Pass

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 9

The plaintiff, Andrew Bayliss, sought to recover from the defendant, George De Pass, trading as the "Sydney Loan and Discount Company," the sum of £200 damages for trespass. There was a second count for trover. Mr…

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Parramatta Police Court. Wednesday, March 19. (Before Messrs. H. Byrnes, E. J. Edrop, E. Pearce, and W. H. M. Gibbons, J’s.P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 8

DANIEL CARRY was charged with committing a breach of the Railway by-laws by refusing to product a railway ticket when required by the authorised official, One of the guards of the…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court.—saturdaym March 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 9

Prothonotary's Office.—Stover v. Meyers, at 10.30…

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