Sydney Gaol Delivery
The first sittings of the Central Criminal Court for the current year were resumed this morning at the Darlinghurst Court. Mr. Cohen, with Mr. Heydon, appeared…
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Child Murder
ALBURY, Wednesday.--A coroner's inquest was held to-day on the body of the infant found in the box of the servant girl, Ellen Jordan. The medical evidence showed…
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In the Charge Branch of the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday, before Mr. L. Yates, D.S.M., a young woman named Amelia Smith was fined £3 for having used obsence language in Belmore Park. The prisoner…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alleged Indecent Assault. NEWCASTLE
At about half-past 4 on Wednesday afternoon a report was made to the police that is Stockton an attempt, with violence, had been made upon a girl about 11 years of age. The suspected person is a…
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At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Wiltshire, S.M., Thomas M'Kenzie was fitted £3 and £1 1s. costs or in default two months' for assaulting one Alfred Betts. James…
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Another murder has been committed in Paris, close to the Grands Boulevards. A woman, 28 years of age, named Marie Aguetant, the tenant of a flat (of which the rent is 2000 francs a year) in the Rue Caumartin, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Murder in Italy
A horrible railway murder, similar in its details to that of M. Barreê—with the exception that the victim was not a person occupying any prominent position, and that the murderer attracted the attention of the police, and was…
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About 6 o'clock this morning a woman named Mary Rose was found dead in a room at 6, Wexford-street. where she was residing. Her body bore marks of…
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Lady Kenmare writes from Killarney in support of the fund being raised for the benefit of Miss Norah and Miss Elizabeth Curtin, whose father was recently murdered by Moonlighters. Lady Kenmare says:—"The details of the…
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A man named Francois Paul, the Paris correspondent of the Daily News, says, has been condemned at the Assize Court, Finisterre, to perpetual imprisonment for having incited his young wife to commit suicide, and with her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Petersham Child Murder. (Continued from page 5.)
After the adjournment, the inquiry into O'Sullivan's state of mind was resumed. Parker, a keeper in Darlinghurst Gaol, said that he brought the prisoner from the…
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At the Central Criminal Court this morning before his Honor Mr. Justice Windeyer, Jeremiah O'Sullivan was charged with the wilful murder of his wife's infant child,…
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DRUNK, &c.—Margaret Whymmes, for being drunk and disorderly in Dixon-street, was fined 20s., or 7 days, and for using foul language £5, or 3 months…
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(Before Mr. A. M. Fisher, D.S.M.) RIOTOUS.—Herbert Mutton, for riotous conduct, suffered in a penalty of 10s., 2s. 6d. costs, or seven days…
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The coroner's jury has brought in a verdict of wilful murder against Ellen Jordan, charged with having destroyed her infant. Dr. Andrews deposed that the strip of calico was tied so tightly round the…
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Causes.—Simpson v. Williams, Teefy v. Wilkinson and another, Blackey v. Woods, Lee v. Comerford, Sullivan v. Sleet, Son Yee v. Ea[?]sensteator…
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(Before Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson.) SIMPSON V. WILLIAMS. This is an action in which the plaintiff…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Metropolitan District Court.—wednesday, March 3. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson.) Hamey V. LACERDA
In this case William Hamey, senior, as the agent and collector for William Hamey, junior, sued Dominic Lacerda, tobacconist, of Regent-street, Redfern, to recover the sum of£116 16s., rent alleged to be due in respect to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Insolvency Court. Thursday, March 4. New Insolvents
Henry Quinlan, mariner, Newcastle. Liabilities, £74 5s.; assets, £3. Cause of insolvency, want of employment and sickness. Official assignee, Mr. E. M. Stephen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Law Notices. Supreme Court.—thursday, March 4
Equity Appeals.—At 10 a.m., before the Full Court: Lloyd v. Muir and others (part heard), Cooper v. Stuart (plaintiff's appeal), Barton v. Bank of New South Wales (defendants' appeal)…
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