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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1887

4,317 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 216

Central Criminal Court. Friday, March 16. (Before his Honor .Mr. Acting Judge M. H. Stephen.) the Goulburn Cathedral Case

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 March 1887 · page 10

Francis Robert Lewis Rossi, a captain in the volunteer forces of New South Wales, was arraigned on a charge of having obstructed Divine service in St. Saviour's Cathedral,…

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The Walgett Gaol

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 March 1887 · page 5

WALGETT, Saturday.--Great indignation is expressed here at the intention of the Government to remove all the prisoners from the new gaol. The building cost some £6000, which…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 March 1887 · page 4

Mr. Clarke. S.M., disposed of the business at the CENTRAL POLICE COURT on Saturday. The charge-sheets were very light. Frank Jones (16), charged with having refused to remove a horse and cart from the carriage-way…

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Insolvency Court. Saturday, March 19. Surrenders

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 March 1887 · page 3

Alfred Rowe. of Walgett, sawyer. Liabilities, £12S 3s. 1d.: assets, £22 6s. 3d. Mr. A. Morris, official assignee. James Lyon Edwards, of 65 Pitt-street,…

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Law Report. Insolvency Court.—saturday, March 19. Surrenders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 March 1887 · page 4

Alfred Rowe, of Walgett, sawyer. Liabilities, £128 3s.; assets, £22 6s. 3d. Mr. A. Morris, official assignee. William Studdy, of 428, Elizabeth-street, Strawberry Hills, tailor. Liabilities, £257 15s.; assets, £72 5s. Mr…

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Supreme Court Reforms. Temporary Law Courts. the Law Inquiry Commission. Excessive Number of Circuit Courts. Supreme Court Business

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 March 1887 · page 4

On Saturday, the Minister for Justice (Hon. W. Clarke) had an important consultation with the Chief Justice, lasting several hours, about matters relating to the administration of justice…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 4
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr. Johnson, S M., presided in the Charge Branch of the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday, and disposed of a large number of cases. John Daley, 35, a labourer, was fined in all £7 10s., for having made use of indecent…

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Dastardly Assault on a Constable

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 4

On Saturday morning a cowardly assault was committed upon Constable Panell, of the Woollahra Police Station, on the Old South Head-road. Recently a number of…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 4
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr. H. Byrnes, L.M., disposed of the business in the Parramatta Licensing Court yesterday. John Cain pleaded not guilty to a charge of exposing liquor for sale in unlicensed promises at the Prospect Camp. The evidence…

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Insolvency Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 3

TUESDAY.--William Connolly, George Gunthorpe, Thomas Fanning and James Fanning, William Bradshaw, Peter Kearney Seaville, Joseph Southward, Robert Farrer Woodruff, Frank Howe, William Smith,…

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District Court.—tuesday, March 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 4

Canses.—Milla v. Seeligson, Bond v. Davis, Woodhill and another v. Rees, Broomfield v. Robertson, Loweish v. Walker, Hurst v. Ware, Hudson v. Whitehead, Elliott and another v. Dalman, Gardner v. Tupper, Waldron v. Smith, Freidman v. Cohen,…

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District Court. Monday, March 20. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Dowling.) Ashton and Another V. CARTER

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 3

An action for the recovery of £19 12s. 6d. representing the goods supplied to the defendant by plaintiffs as glassware merchants. Verdict for the amount claimed…

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Metropolitan District Court.—monday. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Dowling.) Stephen and Another V. AMBROSE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 4

This was an action instituted by William Stephen and Joseph Bromwick, trading together as iron-founders, under the style of Stephen and Bromwick, at Harris-street, Ultimo, to recover from Edward…

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Insolvency Court. Monday, March 21. (Before the Chief Commissioner.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 3

In the matters of Henry Parkinson and Henry William Plummer. Third meetings were held, reports were read no directions were given and the meetings terminated…

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Insolvency Court.—monday. (Before the Chief Commissioner.) Certificate Applications

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 4

In the eatate of H. W. Smith. In this application, judgment in which had been reserved by his Honor, Mr. Faithful moved that the certificate be granted, but his Honor, after referring to certain matters in the statement…

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Law. Supreme Court. Monday, March 21. BANCO COURT.--(Before his Honor the Chief Justice and juries of four.) SCHULZE V. Reynolds and Others (Part Heard.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 3

Mr. Wise and Mr. Lamb (instructed by Mr. J. M. Curtis) appeared for the plaintiff, Oscar Schulze, civil engineer; and Mr. Salomons, Q.C., and Mr. C. B. Stephen (instructed by…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—monday, March 21. Banco Court.—(Before his Honor the Chief Justice and juries of four.) SCHULZE V. Reynolds and Others (Part Heard.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 4

This was an action brought by Oscar Schulze, civil engineer, against Robert Henry Reynolds, Ernest Farish Stephen, Charles Bate, Matthew Henry Stephen, and Louis Cohen, directors of the Gladstone Coal Company, for £5000…

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Central Criminal Court. Monday, March 22. (Before his Honor Mr. Acting Judge M. H. Stephen.) the Goulburn Cathedral Case

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 3

Francis Robert Louis Rossi was again arraigned on an indictment charging him with having on December 24 last, at Goulburn, by force, prevented David Henry Ellis, a…

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