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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1889

7,156 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 250

Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 9

Mr. Johnson, S.M., presided at the CENTRAL POLICE COURT on Saturday. Sydney Smith Gibbons, 35, traveller, was charged with stealing a silver watch and chain, valued at £5, the property of George Newton…

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Alleged Brutal Assault on Woman

Evening News · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 8

Shortly after 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon most brutal assault is alleged to have been committed on a married woman named Cathern[?] Christie, 35 years of age, residing at 122, Ha[?]…

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Saturday's Police Courts. CENTRAL

Evening News · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 3

A commercial traveller named Sydney Gibbons was remanded upon a charge of stealing a silver watch and chain, value £5, the proper of George Newton Whitfield…

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The Bradford Boy Murder. Discharge of Barrett

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.--The milkman Barrett, who was arrested on suspicion of having murdered and mutilated the boy whose remains were discovered at Bradford,…

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The New Chief of the London Police

The Australian Star · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 2

The Queen has approved the appointment of Mr. Monro as Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. There is one well-known drawback to Mr. Monro's…

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Parnellism and Crime. the Inquiry of the Special Commission. Protests Against Waste of Time. Mr. O'brien. M.p.. Charged with Contempt. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 5

ALBANY, Sunday.--The Orient Company's R.M.S. Orizaba, which arrived to-day, brings the following:-- LONDON, December 14.--In the course of a…

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A Chinaman Charged with Assault

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 5

At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. T. E. MacNevin, D.S.M., a Chinese named On Ling was charged with assaulting a man named Edward Townsend, thereby occasioning him actual bodily harm…

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Charged with Forgeries

The Australian Star · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 6

Melbourne, This Day.--Emil [?] employed as cook at John [?] yard, Dookie, was [?] charged with [?]…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr. O'Malley Clarke, S.M., presided in the Charge division of the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday. John Young, alias Donovan, 25, labourer, was charged with stealing about a bushel of corn, valued…

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Brutal Assault by a Chinaman

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 3

An ill-looking Celestial named Ong Lin appeared before Mr. M'Niven at the Water Police Court yesterday on a charge of having inflicted grievous bodily harm on an…

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Alleged Serious Assault. a Chinaman Committed

Evening News · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 6

A Chinese vegetable hawker named Ong Lin was charged in Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. M'Nevin, D.S.M., with assaulting a laborer named Edward Townsend, and…

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The Young Murder. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 5

YOUNG, Monday.--The hearing of the case against Isaac Sawyer, arrested on suspicion of having murdered the hawker, Hans Olund, was commenced to-day before Police Magistrate…

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Alleged Murderous Assault. on Ling on the Warpath

The Australian Star · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 6

THE attention of the Water Police Court was occupied on the charge Bide to-day in hearing a case in which a pensive looking ochre-headed Asiatic named On Ling…

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Yesterday's Police Courts. CENTRAL

Evening News · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 6

Charles Sharpe, a tailor, and Henry Levy, a printer, rioted in Castlereagh-street, and were fined the former 10s or two days, and the latter 5s, or twenty-four hours…

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The Young Murder. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Young

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 8

The police court was crowded all day to hear the evidence against the young man, Isaac Sawyer, charged, on suspicion, with the murder, on the 4 th instant, of a hawker named Hans Olund. The prosecution was…

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Ancient Order of Foresters, Court Redfern

The Australian Star · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 2

The members of this lodge held their usual fortnightly and financial meeting on Thursday evening last, at the Presbyterian Schoolroom, Botany-road, a large number…

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Queensland Nationalism. Another Assault on the Principle. the British Admiral Orders a Queensland Gunboat to Sydney. the Queensland Government Not Consulted. Brisbane, This Day

The Australian Star · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 4

Rear-Admiral Fairfax, who is at present in New Zealand, yesterday cabled to the commander of the Queensland gunboat Palumah, Lieut, Richards, R.N.,…

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Central Police Court

The Australian Star · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 6

OWING to pressure of cases, business in the charge branch of the Central Police Court will be commenced at 9.30 a.m, instead of at 10 a.m., during the remainder…

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Alleged Assault on Constables

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 7

Charles C. Naughton, a cab proprietor, of Woollahra, was charged at the Water Police Court yesterday with assaulting Constable John Robson in the execution of his duty. It…

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