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Courts & crime, 1887

4,317 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 216

Law Noticies. Supreme Court.—saturday. May 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 May 1887 · page 8

Prothonotary's Office.—Wallace and another v. Foresberg, 11…

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Insolvency Court[?]friday. (Before the Chief Commissioner.) Second Meetings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 May 1887 · page 8

Re Edward Eugene Augustus Mahoney, a second meeting. Insolvent did not attend. Three debts were proved. On the application of Mr. Gillespie, who appeared on behalf of a proved creditor, the meeting was adjourned until the…

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Insolvency Court. Friday, May 6. (Before the Registrar.) First Meetings

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 May 1887 · page 3

Leo Ferdinand Sachs. One debt proved and two claims to stand over for further consideration. Thos. H. Fry. Four debts proved and one…

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District Court. Friday, May 6. (Before his Honor Judge Dowling.) Beale and Others V. SVENDSEN

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 May 1887 · page 3

A claim for £11 16s., money due on account of the hire of a piano with interest. Verdict for plaintiffs for amount claimed. BEALE AND OTHERS V. DAVIS…

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Police News. Parramatta. Wednesday, May 4. (Before Messrs. H. Byrnes, E. Pearce, F. S. Byan and C. C. Lamb, Js.P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 7 May 1887 · page 4

JOHN TAYLOR, for being drunk, was fined 5s or 24 hours. The same individual was fined 40s or 14 days for making use of obscene language…

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Small Debts Court. TUESDAY. Before Messrs. J. K. Cleeve, P.M., J. D. Single, and F. J. Weston, Js.P

Nepean Times · Saturday 7 May 1887 · page 4

Several cases were settled, and in one case the bailiff, Mr. J. Price, asked for further expenses as the defendant in the case had shifted in to the Parramatta…

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Parramatta Quarter Sessions.—friday. (Before Mr. District Court Judge WILKINSON.) Mr. J. J. Teece prosecuted for the Crown. False Pretinces

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 May 1887 · page 8

Henry Dawson, who is at present undergoing a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment in Wollongong gaol, pleaded guilty to charges of having obtained money by means of false pretences from William Jordan, of Sutherland, on the…

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Parramatta Small Debts Court. Wednesday, May 4. (Before Messrs. H. Byrnes, F. S. Ryan, E. Pearce and C. C. Lamb, Js.P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 7 May 1887 · page 4

JAMES DELLOW v. FRANCIS QUINLAU. Claim, £2 5s. Verdict for amount, with 5s costs. James Granger v. Adolph Bergan. Claim, £6 17s. The amount was paid into court, and…

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Law. Supreme Court. Friday, May 6. IN BANCO.--(Before their Honors the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Innes.) the Queen v. TIMMINS

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 May 1887 · page 3

Mr. Gibson appeared for the Crown but there was no appearance on behalf of the prisoner, in this special case stated by Mr. District Court Judge Backhouse, before whom the prisoner…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—friday, May 6. In Banco.—(Before his Honor the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice INNES.) THe queen v. TIMMINS

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 May 1887 · page 8

Mr. Gibson appeared for the Crown in support of the conviction. There was no appearance on the part of the appellant. This was a special case stated by Mr. District Court Judge Backhouse from the Court of Quarter…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 May 1887 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr. J. M. Marsh sat in the Charge Division of the WATER POLICE COURT on Saturday morning. Albert Hunt, a boy 14 years of age, who had been in the habit of wandering about the streets of the city in company with reputed…

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Resisting the Police

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 May 1887 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Three brothers named White, their sister and another young woman, Ellen Joy, were yesterday charged at the Carlton Police Court with seriously assaulting…

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The Goulburn Absconders. Prisoners Charged with Forgery. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 May 1887 · page 5

GOULBURN, Saturday. -- The charges of forgery and uttering against the two absconders from the office of Mr. H. S. D. Gannon -- William P. Aylward and Samuel Slater -- were…

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Queensland Circuit Court Business

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 May 1887 · page 5

TOWNSVILLE, Sunday. -- The Circuit Court concluded on Saturday, after a fortnight's continuous sitting. In all 14 cases were tried and three prisoners sentenced to death. Altogether…

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District Court.—monday, May 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 May 1887 · page 5

Causes.—Oppenheimer v. Reynolds and another (part hoard), same v. same, Clarence River Farmers' Association v. Bolger, Steers and another v. Aarons and another, Mullins v. M'Closky, Anderson v. Vial and another. Morris v. Monseigny, Hamilton…

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Law Report. Insolvency Court.—saturday, May 7. Surrender

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 May 1887 · page 5

James Thomas Hewitt, of Fitzroy-street, Newton, plasterer. Liabilities, £37 2s. 10d.; [?]ts, £12. Mr. L. Lyons, official assignee. Samuel Bennett Bailey, of 126, Pitt-street, Sydney, land…

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Parramatta Quarter Sessions. Saturday, May 7. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson.) Application to Restore an Order

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 May 1887 · page 5

Lydia Ann Sly applied to have an order made against her husband for maintenance of herself and four children, which had been reduced by the Parramatta Bench (Messrs. H. Burns and G. Wickham, Js.P.) from 12s. to 6d. per…

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Police

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 May 1887 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At the Water Court yesterday, before Mr. Fisher, D.S.M., Thomas Smith was fined £2, or 1[?] days, for indecent language. For vagrancy Timothy Hussey was sent to gaol for two…

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