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Courts & crime, 1885

4,969 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 249

Supreme Court. Thursday, March 19. Jury Court. (Before his Honor Mr Justice Faucett.) Crace V Gribble (Part Heard.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 March 1885 · page 6

Mr Ower, Q.C and Mr Pilcher again appeared for the plaintiff; Mr Darley, Q.C., and Dr. Sly for the defendant. The defendant denied the evidence of the plaintiff's witness's to the effect that, whilst…

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Central Criminal Court.—thursday. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice INNES.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 March 1885 · page 3

Mr. W. J. Foster and Mr. Gibson prosecuted for the Crown. THE GLEBE ABORTION CASE. Thomas Meredith Sheridan and William Bell were…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—thursday, March 19. Jury Court.—(Before his Honor Mr. Justice FAUCETT and a jury of four.) CRACE V. Gribble (Part Heard)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 March 1885 · page 3

Mr. Owen, Q.C., and Mr. Pilcher, instructed by Messrs. Norton, Smith, Westgarth, and Saunders, for plaintiff; Mr. Darley, Q.C., and Dr. Sly, instructed by Mr. G. E. R, Jones, for the defendant…

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Insolvency Court.—thursday, March 19. (Before his Honor the Chief Commissioner.) Compulsory Sequestration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 March 1885 · page 3

In the matter of A. M'Arthur and Co. v. Heat[?], an adjourned application for compulsory sequestration, Mr. A. M'Carthy, for the petitioners, applied for the order to be made absolute. It was ordered that the application should…

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Metropolitan District Court. Thursday, March 19. (Before his Honor Judge Forbes.) CORBETT V. JESSON

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 March 1885 · page 6

This was an action by James Corbett to recover £72 10s 6d, the amount of a promissory note with interest thereon up to date of action, £5 16s 3d. Verdict for the amount claimed…

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Banco Court. (Before his Honor Mr Justice Windeyer.) LOBB V. Amos and ANOTHER.--(part heard.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 March 1885 · page 6

Mr Hey don again appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Salomons, Q.C., and Mr Pring for the defendants in this action to recover £450 damages as compensation for personal injuries received by the…

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Penrith Police Court. Monday, March 16Th

Nepean Times · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 2

Before Mr. J. K. Cleeve, J.P. ONE drunk was fined 2s 6d or 24 hours in the lockup. Fino paid. John Behan, charged with behaving in a riotous…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 11

The following cases were brought before the D.S.M., Mr. Meares, at the CENTRAL POLICE COURT on Wednesday, the 18th instent, by the Inspector of Weights and Measures:—Charles Farmer, butcher, Thomas Gould, grocer,…

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Assault in a Gambling Den

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 5

A Chinese gambling-house disturbance occupied much attention at the Water Police Court yesterday. Ah Chung was charged before Mr Yates, D.S.M., with inflicting grievous bodily harm on…

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Mutiny and Murder

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 27

The Swedish brigantine Natal, which sailed from Boston for Brisbane, put into New York on January 29 (says Reuter's' Frisco correspondent). A terrible mutiny had occurred. The captain was attacked…

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Police Intelligence

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 5

At the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr O'Malley Clarke, George Wilman, a wretched specimen of humanity, who had been arrested in the Domain, and who described…

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The Coonamble Gaol Tragedy. Coonamble, March 13

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 615

At half-past 8 p.m. on Thursday the police and party returned frum an unsuccessful search, night haying set in, and all traces of the escapees were lost. Mitchell, the gaoler, who was that, lies in a dying state, with no hope…

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Central Criminal Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

His Honor Sir George L. Innes presided over the Central Criminal Court yesterday, when Mr Foster and Mr Gibson prosecuted on behalf of the Crown…

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Extraordinary Conduct in Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 5

At the Parramatta Police Court yesterday, before Messrs J. M. Gould and G. Wickham, J.P., Evan Evans, farmer, of Castle Hill, was summoned by Louis Lambert for assault, and was fined…

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Law Courts. Supreme Court

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 636

[?] Thursday, March 12, the evidence for the defence in the case of M'Elhone v. Bennett and others in the Banco Court was continued. This will be found reported elsewhere. Mr. Darley then commenced his address to the…

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Supposed Murder by the Queensland Blacks. Brisbane

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 630

A selector named Johnstone reported at Port Douglas od Friday night the probable murder of a selector named S. Barnard, on the Mossman River, by the blacks. It appears that the aboriginals came upon…

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Police Court. Saturday, March 14. (Before Dr. Brereton Capt. Goodridge, and Messrs. R. R. Terry and Rodd, J’ s. P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 3

An application from Mr. Doyls for an auctioneers license was granted. N. Napier was charged with disorderly conduct in the Steamboat Hotel on 3rd instant…

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Parramatta Police Court. Wednesday March 18. (Before Messrs. H. Byrnes, W. M. H. Gibbons. E. Peirce and N. Stewart J’ s. P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 4

JAMES PATERSON, locked up for protection, was discharged. Elisabeth Murray, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 6s or twenty-four boars…

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Metropolitan District Court.—friday. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Dowling.) Golding V. Clarke and Others

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 11

In this case W. K. Golding sued Hill, Clark, and Co. for wrongful detention of two horses, but fulling to prove his cass he was nonsuited. DALEY V. WENTWORTH…

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