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Courts & crime, 1884

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Indecent Assault

Evening News · Monday 14 January 1884 · page 8

On the 3rd instant, at Newtown, Mr. Crane, S.M., committed Joseph Lawler, aged 21, for trial at the next Quarter Sessions, for alleged indecent assault with intent. Constable Pritchard deposed that at…

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District Court Arrangements

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1884 · page 5

The announcement which has appeared elsewhere to the effect that Judge Forbes is to take the work for Judge Wilkinson at next Sydney Quarter Sessions, is not quite correct. The…

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Police. Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1884 · page 5

Mr. Crane, S.M., presided on the bench in the Charge Court yesterdays. A number cf cases of drunkenness were dealt with. Ma Brook, Fitz Mals Almas, Ma Brook Elli, and Sa…

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Redfern Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1884 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr. Clark, S.M., occupied the bench yesterday. An aboriginal was fined 40s. for indecency in Cleveland-street. Thomas O'Brien pleaded guilty to a charge of damaging…

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Central Police Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1884 · page 6

In the Charge Court yesterday, before Mr Crane, S.M., 36 persons were fined in, different sums for being intoxicated in the public streets. RIOTOUS CONDUCT…

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Water Police Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1884 · page 6

Mr Marsh, S.M., sat in the Summons Court yesterday, and dealt with a number of offences against municipal regulations, breaches of the Instruction Act, &c…

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Balmain Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1884 · page 5

Mr. Buchanan, S.M., occupied the bench yesterday. George Shinnick and Edward Sullivan, for being drunk and disorderly and using abusive language, were fined 40s. each, or 14 days in the lockup…

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Murder of a Paramour

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1884 · page 5

A telegram from Dunedin, dated December 31, to an Auckland paper, says:--A man named William Pearce has been arrested for the murder of Matilda Hancock. The two were…

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Supposed Child Murder. Verdict of Manslaughter

Evening News · Tuesday 15 January 1884 · page 3

The adjourned inquest into the circumstances attending the death of John Henry Swanbrow, an infant of 14 days old, whose death is supposed to have been caused by its father was resumed at the…

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Armidale District Court. ARMIDALE

Evening News · Tuesday 15 January 1884 · page 2

The District Court was opened to-day before Judge Murray. The list of undefended cases was short and soon disposed of. Two actions for trespass, brought by Mr. J. H. Head, lessee of the…

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Police. Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1884 · page 5

Mr. Crane, S.M., sat in the Charge Court yesterday, and Mr. Clarke, S.M., presided in the Summons Court. John Rhodes, 46 years, engine-driver, for having destroyed a door and a square of glass, value £1, and the…

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Water Police Court

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1884 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Mr Marsh, S.M., occupied the beach is the summons court yesterday morning. Mr Addison, S.M., presided in the charge court, A number of drunks having been dealt with,…

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Newtown Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1884 · page 5

Mr. Crane, S.M., presided on the Bench yesterday, and dealt with the following cases:— Alphonse Menage, a Frenchman, who was charged with being illegally on the premises of Thomas O'Connor with…

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St. Leonards Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1884 · page 5

Mr. James Buchanan, S.M., occupied the Bench yesterday. Richard Edward Smith, landlord of the Lily of St. Leonards Hotel at Milson's Point, pleaded guilty to a charge…

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The Alleged Child Murder. Verdict

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1884 · page 7

The inquiry into the cause of the death of the child Swanbrow was resumed by Mr Shiell, the City Coroner, yesterday morning at the South Sydney Morgue…

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Summons Court

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1884 · page 3

This court was presided over yesterday by Mr. G. O'M. Clark, S.M. A number of minor cases were disposed of. BREACHES OF POLICE ACT…

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Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1884 · page 3

Mr. G. O'M. Clark, S.M., sat in the licensing court and, in addition to the other business mentioned below, granted a number of pack and foot licenses…

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Parramatta Police Court. Saturday, January 12. - (Before Messrs. Payten, Edrop, and Ryan, J's.P)

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 16 January 1884 · page 2

ONE inebriate was dealt with. John Lennitt, brought up for vagrancy, was discharged. P. Brennan was charged with throwing stones…

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