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Courts & crime, 1888

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The Murder of Mr. Lee Walker. Massacred in the New Hebrides

The Australian Star · Wednesday 11 January 1888 · page 6

FILES to hand by the Menageries Maritimes steamer Solute furnish particulars of the murder of Mr. Lee Walker, well known in Sydney, and brother of…

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Law Report. Bankruptcy Court.—tuesday. Sequestration Order

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 January 1888 · page 4

Moses Hilder, of Jerrawa Siding, near Yass. labourer on petition of debtor. Mr. E. M. Stephen, official assignee. DECLARATION OF INABILITY TO PAY DEETS…

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Police News. Parramatta. Saturday, 7Th January. (Before Messrs. H. Taylor and R. Harper, J’ s. P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 11 January 1888 · page 3

JAMES DIFF, locked up for protection, was discharged. He was afterwards taken to the George-street Asylum and admitted. John Simmonds, who has been discharged…

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The Irish Difficulty. Mr. Blunt's Imprisonment. Conflicts Between the Police and the People. Arrest of Another Irish Member

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 January 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--Mr. Wilfrid Blunt's, sentence of two months' imprisonment haying been confirmed, he has been removed to Gal way Gaol…

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Balmain Police Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 12 January 1888 · page 6

A REION or TERROR--Six young larrikins stood in row at the foot at the table to answer for having behaved riotously on Boxing Day, at 1 p.m., in the centre…

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Murderous Assault by Aboriginals

The Australian Star · Thursday 12 January 1888 · page 6

ADELAIDE, This Day.--At the Port Augusta Police Court this morning two aboriginals were charged with comm[?]a assault. They had been brought down…

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Police

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 January 1888 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. G. O'Malley Clarke, S.M., Chas. Walsh, a laborer, was sent to gaol for 14 days for having in his possession a pipe-cutter, which was supposed…

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The Extraordinary Assault Case. the Defendants Dismissed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 January 1888 · page 3

The further hearing of the case against Victor Thomas Sherbrooke Haughton, James Oxley and Ethel Harris, in which they were charged with having unlawfully assaulted the…

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Plot to Murder the Czar

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 January 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.--Another Nihilist plot to murder the Czar of Russia has been discovered, and a number of Russian officers who were implicated in it have been…

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Plot to Murder the Czar. Many Arrests Effected. Military Officers Implicated. [By Cable.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 January 1888 · page 7

A Nihilist plot to murder the Czar of Russia has been discovered in St. Petersburg. Many arrests have been made. Military officers are implicated…

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Alleged Serious Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1888 · page 3

Giacomo Scilini, fishmonger, living in Raglan-street, Alexandria, was charged at the Redfern Court yesterday with inflicting grievous bodily barm on one Edward Gilbert…

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Curious Case of Theft

The Australian Star · Friday 13 January 1888 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--This morning Harriet Hayley, a very respectable-looking girl, 20 years of age, was brought up for stealing a silver watch, a gold albert chain,…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1888 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr. Leopold Yates, S.M., presided in the Charge Division of the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday. John Lee, [?] having goods in his possession reasonably supposed to be [?] was sent to gaol for three months. Joseph Arnold,…

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Murder at Suva

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1888 · page 6

On December 28 (reports the Fiji Times of December 81) Suva was thrown into a state of great excitement by the news that a Polynesian lad had killed the elder of Mr. George Clarke's…

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The New Hebrides Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1888 · page 5

Mr. Vernon Lee Walker, whose murder by the natives in the New Hebrides was reported in The Daily Telegraph of Tuesday last, lived for some time in Melbourne and had many…

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Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1888 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Star

The weekly meeting of the Licensing Bench was held at the Water Police Court yesterday, before Messrs Marsh and Fisher, L.M.'s. Transfers of publican's licenses were granted from…

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