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Courts & crime, 1889

7,156 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 11
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr O'Malley Clarke, S.M., presided in the Charge division of the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday. Emily Antoni, 20, for having insufficient lawful visible means of support, was sent to gaol for two…

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Australian. Victoria. Extraordinary Case of Assault

The Australian Star · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 6

MELBOURNE, This Day.-- Crawford v M'Manus, an extraordinary case, was heard at the Fitzroy Police Court to-day. The defendant, for some reason, imagined…

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Theft of Books. a Well-connected Prisoner

The Australian Star · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 6

IN the summons division of the Water Police Court to-day, John M'Dongall was charged, by summons, with having stolen two books -- viz., volumes 1 and 2 of…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 11
Also in The Australian Star, The Daily Telegraph

A Licensing Court was held at the Central Police Court yesterday. Present: Mr. O'Malley Clarke, S.M. (chairman), Mr. Johnson, S.M., and Mr. Macintosh, L.M. The application, under the 15th section,…

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Yesterday's Police Courts. CENTRAL

Evening News · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 6

Robert Henson, a joung blacksmith, found with a dozen bags aid an umbrella in his possession, reasonably suspected of being stolen, received a sentence of fourteen days, with hard labor…

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Bankruptcy Court. Tuesday, January 15. Sequestrations

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 7

James Bell Smith and Archibald Russell, 504 and 506 Gcorge-street, on debtors' petition. Mr. A. Morris, official assignee. Frederick George Hawson, of Round-hill…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—tuesday, January 15. In Bankruptcy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 11

SEQUESTRATION ORDERS ON PETITION OF DEBTORS. James Bell Smith and Archibald Russell, trading as Smith and Russell, of 504 and 566, George-street. Mr. A. Morris, official assignee…

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Miners' Troubles. the Borehole Case. South Waratah and the Referees' Court. Newcastle, This Day

The Australian Star · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 6

The Borehole men the other evening resolved to keep on working the full height of the seam in spite of the manager's instructions, which they held were…

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Water Police Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 17 January 1889 · page 6

BEARDING THE LION.--Richard Kearney said he regretted very much having been "full," within the preomta of the Water Police Court, and that he certainly had…

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Alleged Watch Stealing

Evening News · Thursday 17 January 1889 · page 6

Sydney Smith Gibbons, alias Sidney Gibbons, alias Thomas Jones, without any ability to write "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire," was arraigned at the Central Police…

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A Notorious Gaol Bird

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 January 1889 · page 3

An ill-looking ruffian named James Hagon was charged before Mr. O'Malley Clarke, at the Central Court yesterday, with being an idle aud disorderly person, having…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 January 1889 · page 9
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr. G. O'Malley Clarke, S. M., disposed of the business in the Charge Division of the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday. Charles Gale, 16, no occupation, for stealing two saucepans and other…

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A Peculiar Charge of Theft

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 January 1889 · page 3

The Hindoos, Fuzeldeen and Marosk, who have been repeatedly remanded on a charge of having robbed a fellow countryman named Nabob Mullibor of £32, were yesterday…

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Attempt to Escape from Gaol

The Australian Star · Thursday 17 January 1889 · page 5

PERTH, This Day.--Hughes, the bushranger, made another attempt to escape from Fremantle Gaol on Tuesday by cutting away the window ef his cell. He was,…

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The Murder Near Young

The Australian Star · Thursday 17 January 1889 · page 6

YOUNG, This Day.--Isaac Sawyer, the man in custody and now before the court here, for the murder of Hans Olund, has 32 witnesses against him. The court has…

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Assault on Chinese on Thursday Island. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 January 1889 · page 5

THURSDAY ISLAND, Wednesday. -- A man named Anderson was sent to prison for two months to-day for assaulting a Chinamen whilst under the influence of drink. But for the…

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