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Courts & crime, 1887

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Alleged Wheat Stealing

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Friday.-- For two or three years past th[?]ts of wheat have been going on at Gawler, and early this morning a farmer named Jon. [?]rkett and another man named Sam…

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[?]Police Court. Friday, December 24, 1886. (Before [?]

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 2

Patrick Haye[?], drunk was let off [?]for Christmas with a fine of [?]the rising of the court. Inspector Sharpe appeared against a…

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Police

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 10
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At the Redfern Court yesterday, before Mr. Maunsell, D S. M., Thomas Moran and George Anderson, for using obscene language, were each fined £3, or one month. Lilian St…

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Assault on Sub-inspector Lawless

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 10

Patrick Kenna was charged before Mr. Johnson, S.M., at the Central Court yesterday with inflicting grievous bodily harm on subinspector Lawless on December 12 at Pyrmonth…

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Alleged Assault on Sub-inspector Lawless

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 7

At the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. W. Johnstone, S.M., Patrick Renna, a middle-aged man of respectable appearance, was charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on Sub-inspector Lawless on the…

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Penrith Police Court. TUESDAY. Before Mr. J. K. Cleeve, P.M.

Nepean Times · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 6

John McBride, drunk, fined 2s 6d, in default 24 hours' lock-up. John Hoffman, arrested under warrant, was charged that he did, on 29th…

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Police Court. Thursday, December 23. (Before Messrs. J. R. Manning and H. D' Ardier, Js.P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 8

Chong Leen v. E. Billington and Isaac Carpenter, assault. Fined 40s, and 25s 10d costs each. Do. v. Do., larceny. Case dismissed…

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Criminal Assault on a Girl at Tamworth, Five Men Arrested. Tamworth

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 15

Our Tamworth correspondent wires:—Five young men were arrested here to-day on a serious charge in connection with a young girl under 16 years of age who has been leading an immoral life…

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Working of the Supreme Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 5

Some time since it was stated that the Government intended to appoint a commission to inquire into the working of the Supreme Court; but nothing more has been heard of the…

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Scene in a Circuit Court. a Juryman with His Hat On

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 15

A somewhat extraordinary, scene was w[?]nessed in the Glasgow Circuit Court lately. After some of the cases had been disposed of before Lord Cr[?]ighill in the Old Court, the officer of the court pointed…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—friday, December 31. in Chambers. In Equity.—(Before his Honor the Primary Judge.) Probate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 7

His Honor granted to Messrs. Stephen, Laurence, and Jones, procters for the executors, proof of the will and codicil of Eliza Bennett, late of Randwick, to the two executors named in the will, viz.:—Costello Stanley and…

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Police

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 January 1887 · page 7

At the Central Court on Saturday, before Mr. Johnson, S.M., Michael O'Toole and Tobias O'Toole were each fined 10s., or three days' gaol, for riotous behavior. Henry…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1887 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr. Maunsell, D.S.M., disposed of the business in the, Charge Court at the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday, and Mr. Whittingdale Johnson, S. M., dealt with a number of cases in the Summons Court. John…

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Land Appeal Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1887 · page 4

The Lands Department continue to register numerous appeals by pastoralists and selectors against the decisions of the local land boards throughout the country. The Minister has not…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court.—tuesday, January 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1887 · page 3

Prothonetary's Office.—Mercantile Benk v. Cole, at 10; M. B., L., and Investment Company v. Bowmer, at 10; Lark v. Delaforce, 10; Thompson v. Baker, at 10.15…

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The Treasury, New South Wales, December 15,1886, Annual Tenders. Tenders for Forage for the Police Throughout the Colony, and for Public Departments, Metropolitan and Parramatta Districts, 1887-8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1887 · page 2

NOTICE is hereby given that Tenders for the Annual Forage Supplies for the Police throughout the colony, and for Public Departments, Metropolitan and Parramatta Districts, for the year ending March 31, 1888, will be received at the Treasury up to…

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Charges of Stealing

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1887 · page 6

At the Central Court yesterday, Henry Charles Ireland was charged with realing a silver watch, value £5, the property of Thomas Sutton. On New Years eve, the men were out…

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Police

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1887 · page 6

At the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. G. Mannsell, D.S.M., .James H. Ross, a carter, charged with assaulting John A. Slater, was fined £1, or 21 days. He was also charged…

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