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Courts & crime, 1888

5,928 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 250

Law Report. Bankruptcy Court. Sequestrations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 February 1888 · page 6

Charles Baker, iron[?]ger, of 137, G[?]be Point-read. On debtor's petition. Mr. Augustus Morr[?] official assignee. Jabez Stokes, labourer, of Bowral. [?] debtor's petition…

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The Irish Question. Eleven Irishmen Imprisoned Murder of a Farmer

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday night.--Eleven Irishmen have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from one to three months for taking part in an unlawful…

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Murder of a Farmer at Listowel. London, Feb. 1.d

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 February 1888 · page 9

A farmer who went into occupation of a farm at Listowel from which the previous tenant had been evicted was murdered yesterday in the presence of his daughter…

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Murder of a Boycotted Farmer. Shot on the Highway. London

The Australian Star · Thursday 2 February 1888 · page 5

A farmer,who had taken up the farm of an evicted tenant, near Listowel,County Kerry, and about 16 miles from Tralee, was shot dead by Moonlighters last…

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Metropolitan District Court. Wednesday. (Before his Honor Mr. District Court Judge Dowling.) Ross V. [?]MO

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 February 1888 · page 6

Plaintiff, a printer, claimed £36 5s. for work and labour done in publishing a certain work for the defendant, a phrenologist. The defence was not indebted, and that the defendant was an uncertificated insolvent. Verdict for…

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The Smith-kilrain Fight. the Death of a Journalist. the Murder Theory Discredited. Bo[?]lo[?]

The Australian Star · Thursday 2 February 1888 · page 6

The "tout" who was arrested on suspicion of having been concerned in the death of Mr. M'Neill, the journalist, who mysteriously disappeared after the…

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Bankruptcy Court. Wednesday, February 1. Sequestration Orders on Petitions Op Debtors

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1888 · page 3

Jabez Stokes, of Bowral, laborer. Mr. E. M. Stephen, official assignee. Edwin Nickson, of Gundagai, police-constable. Mr. Aug. Morris, official assignee…

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District Court. Wednesday, February 1. (Before his Honor Judge Dowling.) FRIEND V. WOOD

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1888 · page 3

This was an action between William L. Friend, Walter Friend and Owen Friend, of York-street, plaintiffs, and A. A. Wood, of the Captain Cook Iun, Botany, defendant, to…

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An Old Gaol Bird

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 3

John Howell alias Jerry Scanlon, an old thief, was charged at the Central Court yesterday with being a suspected person frequentiug Red fern railway station with intent to commit…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The Charge business at the CENTRAL POLICE COURT, yesterday, who disposed of by Mr. Abbott, S.M. Henry Sinclair, 23, painter, for having assaulted one Edmund Hill, was fined 40s., with the option of three week's imprisonment…

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The Armidale Murder

The Australian Star · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 6

THE Armidale Expresses gives the following additional particulars in connection wits the murder of the man John Stapleton at Hillgrove:--''The suspected mu[?]…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The weekly meeting of the Licensing Bench was held at the Water Police Court at noon yesterday, there being present Messrs. Marsh (chairman), Addison, and Fisher, L.Ms. The following transfers of licenses were granted:—…

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Law Notices. District Court.—friday, February 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 5

Before Judge Dowling: Lassetter v. Harvey, Bennett v. Drummond, Mumford v. Holt, Hayes v. Mirando, Henry v. Holly, H[?]nerbein v. Emerson, Williams v. Bryan, M'Callum v. Thorne, Chisholm and others v. Strickland and others,…

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Law Report. Metropolitan District Court. Thursday. (Before his Honor Mr. District Court Judge Dowling.) Taylor V. SOLOMON

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 5

Mr. J. L. Campbell (instructed by Messrs. Want,,Johnson, and Co. for the plaintiff; Mr. G. H. Reid (instructed by Mr. A. J. Brady) for the defendant. The plaintiff in this case was a Mr. Arnold Taylor, residing at Surbiton,…

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Law. Metropolitan District Court. Thursday, February 2. (Before His Honor Judge Dowling.) Marano and Others V. Langdon

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 6

Mr. Browning appeared for the plaintiffs, V. Marano, Angelo Tornaghi and Pietro Pisoni, and Mr. Davics appeared for the defendant, in this action to recover £17 4s. Id. The…

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Chinamen Charged with Conspiracy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday.—At the police court today, three Chinaman, Sam Lee Wood, Geo. Young and Loo Loo were charged with conspiracy. The information set forth "that they…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 16
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr. Abbott, S.M., disposed of the Charge cases at the Central POLICE COURT yesterday. Marion Burke, 40, an idle and disorderly person, was sentenced to six months' hard labour. For drunkenness and obscenity, Margaret…

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