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Courts & crime, 1889

7,156 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 250

Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 3

Mr. Johnson, S.M., presided in the Charge Division of the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday morning. Robert Thomas, charged on remand with being a suspected person, &c., was sent to gaol for three months…

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A Magistrate on the Marine Act

The Australian Star · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 5

MELBOURNE, This Day.-- During the inquiry into the Hauroto-King Arthur collision, Mr. Call, P.M., president of the police board of inquiry, characterised the…

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The Yarra Bend Murder

Evening News · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-The adjourned inquiry into the circumstances sarrounding the death of Archibald Hunter, warder at Yarra Bend Asylum, was resumed to-day. The…

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The Murder Near Young

The Australian Star · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 6

YOUNG, This Day.-- Isaac Sawyer, who was arrested at Burrowa on Monday night [?] suspicion of having murdered the [?]awker Hans Olund, near Young, was…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 7
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, Evening News, The Daily Telegraph

THE regular weekly meeting of the Water Police Licensing Bench, consisting of their worships, Mr. Addison, S M., and Mr. Macintosh, L.M., was held at noon…

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Yesterday's Police Courts. CENTRAL

Evening News · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 3

Thomas White walked into Special-constable Moses, and was fined £2 or twenty-one days for the pastime. Lily M'Laren, a common character, who brawled…

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The Irish Crimes Act. a Mayor Charged with Conspiracy. He Marches to Court in His Robes. the Accused on the Bench. Mr. E. Harrington's Moustache. London, January 9

The Australian Star · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 5

A strange spectacle was be held in Clonmel, Tipperary, to-day. Mr. T. J. Condon, M.P. for Tipperary East, and who has been elected Mayor of Clonmel for the year…

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Yesterday's Supreme Court. in Equity. (Before Mr. Justice Owen.)

Evening News · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 3

GREIG. v. METCAALF.-Mr. Wise applied on behalf of the plaintiff, James Stewart Greig, for a writ of attachment against John Lucas Metcalf for disobedience of an order of the Chief Judge…

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A Sugar Trust. [?]Order of the Supreme Court. London, January 10

The Australian Star · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 5

The Supreme Court of New York has ordered a sugar company to forfeit its charter, on the ground that it has ceased to be a corporate company since it joined…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—thursday, January 10. In Equity.—(Before his Honor Mr. Justice OWEN, Chief Judge in Equity.) GREIG V. METCALFE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 3

Mr. Wise, instructed by Messrs. Dibbs and Gibson, appeared for the plain tiff, James Stuart Greig, and moved for the committal of the defendant, John Lucas Metcalfe, who was then before the Court under a writ…

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A Police Murder

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 6

Says UNITED IRELAND, Nov. 29:- The coroner's inquiry on the poor boy, Patrick Ahern, stabbed in a police charge in Midleton, has resulted in a strong and unanimous condemnation…

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Balmain Police Court

The Australian Star · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 5

WIFE DE[?]ERTION. -- John Chadwick considered marriage a failure, and [?]ted accordingly. His wife objected without some recompense, and on the case being…

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Police

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 10
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

A charge of having in his possession a bell register belonging to the New South Wales Government, for which he failed to satisfactorily account, was brought against a laborer named…

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Murder near Young

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 44

On the 4th instant a hawker, named Hans Olund, was murdered on the Marrengo-road, about one mile and a quarter from Young. Olund had camped there under some gum trees. About 10 o'clock Mrs. Wedge…

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Brutal Murder near Young

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 98

A brutal murder took place during the night of the 4th instant on the main Young to Burrowa road, within the Young borough boundary, about three-quarters of a mile from the post office. A hawker named Hans Olund…

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The Murder near Young

Evening News · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 5

YOUNG, Saturday.-In reference to the murder of the hawker, Hans Olund, it is stated that the evidence of a circumstantial nature, which will be adduced at the police court inquiry on…

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