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Courts & crime, 1885

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1885 · page 4

At the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday, Mr. Abbott, S.M., disposed of the business in the Charge Court; and Mr. Clarke, S.M., dealt with a number of cases in the Summons Court. A number of person were fined for…

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Police Intelligence

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1885 · page 3

Mr Abbott, S.M., occupied the bench in the charge court at the Central Police Court yesterday, Mary Brown and Charles Neilson (a sailor) were sentenced to seven days' imprisonment for…

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The Slack Murder. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Friday 23 January 1885 · page 4

The convict Barnes, who confessed to the murder of J. B. Slack, was removed from Pentridge Stockade to the Melbourne Gaol on Thursday, in order that he might be under the…

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Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1885 · page 3

Messrs Addison and Leopold Yates, S.Ms., occupied the Licensing Bench at the Water Police Court yesterday, when the following booth licenses were granted: -- H. Davis, Dawes Point; E…

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The Police and Their Prisoners

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1885 · page 5

Last evening a disturbance occurred at the Lighthouse Hotel, Bathurst-street, through a woman making use of obscene language and throwing stones at the landlord, Mr Bicketts, On his…

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Murder of Bank Officials in Western Australia. [By Telegraph.]

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1885 · page 5

PERTH, Thursday. -- News has just been received of a terrible murder at Boeburne, A few days ago the bodies of T. Ankell, manager, and H. Burrup, clerk, of the Boeburne branch of the…

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Court-house for Western Suburbs

Evening News · Friday 23 January 1885 · page 4

This morning a deputation, consisting of Mr. Watkin (Mayor of Ashfield) and Mr. Shelly (an alderman of the same borough) was introduced to Mr. H. E. Cohen, Minister of Justice, by Mr. M…

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Law Report. Insolvency Court.—thursday. Surrenders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1885 · page 4

John Cain, of Albion-street, Sydney, butcher. Liabilities, £264 14s. 10d. Assers, £58 14s. 2d. Mr. F. Macnab, official assignee. Henry Skinner, of Tw[?]d River, labourer. Liabilities,…

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Mysterious Double Murder in Western Australia. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Perth (W.a)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1885 · page 8

News has just been received here that a terrible double murder was perpetrated at Roeburne a few days ago, the victims being Mr. T. Anketell, manager, and Mr. H. Burrup, clerk, of the local branch of the Union…

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Penrith Police Court. Monday 19Th January

Nepean Times · Saturday 24 January 1885 · page 2

Before Mr. J. K. Cleeve, J.P. Four lads, named respectively Henry Cuthbert [?]., John Parle 12, Thomas Doddle 2. and Henry Dugan [?] were brought up for having absconded from their…

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Confirmation in Darlinghurst Gaol

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 January 1885 · page 14

CARRYING out one of the sacred duties of his great office, his Grace the Archbishop visited Darlinghurst on Friday last. His Grace, who was accompanied by the Very Rev. Dr…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1885 · page 11

Mr. Abbott, S.M., disposed of the business in the Charge Court at the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday morning, and Mr. Clarke, S.M., dealt with a number of cases in the Sammons Court. A number of persons were fined for…

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Police Court. Saturday, January 17. (Before Mr. J. E. Manning, J.P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 24 January 1885 · page 3

The Inspector of Nuisances prosecuted in the following six cases :— S. Woodcock, cow straying on 5th inst. Fined 6s…

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Charge Of Arson and Murder

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 January 1885 · page 13

John Fisher Cripps, appeared on remand in the Water Police Court, Tuesday, and was charged with having maliciously set fire to the Coffee Palace Hotel, "having well known that persons were…

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Balmain Police Court Monday, January 19, 1885. (Before Mr. L. Yates, S.M.)

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1885 · page 2

Jas. Brady, for being drunk in Mort-street, was fined 20s or 7 days; and for using obscene language £5 or 3 months. For assaulting Constable Rourke, whilst in the execution…

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Municipal Revision Court

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 24 January 1885 · page 4

The Parramatta municipal lists for 1885-6 were revised at the Council Chambers, yesterday, the work occupying the greater part of the day…

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Parramatta Police Court. Wednesday, January 21.(Before Messrs. H. Byrnes and F. S. Ryan, J’s.P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 24 January 1885 · page 4

T. Jones, for drunkenness, was fined 20s, or seven days. Edward Griffiths pleaded guilty to having damaged a seat at Fairfield railway station, by…

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Tee Murder of Bank Officials in Western Australia

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1885 · page 5

On Wednesday, says the "Argus," information reached the authorities of the Union Bank of Australia, Melbourne, that their branch at Melbourne, Western Australia, had been attacked,…

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Petty Sessions Court for Ashfield

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1885 · page 10

Yesterday a deputation consisting of Mr Watkin (Mayor of Ashfield) and Alderman Shilling (of Ashfield) were introduced by Mr Hark Hammond, M.L.A., to the Minister for Justice (Hon. H. E…

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Murder of a Clarence River Man in the Far North

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 January 1885 · page 17

Late on Christmas Eve, says the Cairns POST,a painful feeling of anxiety was created in town by the news brought in from the Mulgrave River by Donald Shaw that Donald M'Auley, a selector on that river,…

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