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Courts & crime, 1889

7,156 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250

Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1889 · page 11
Also in The Daily Telegraph, Evening News

The quarterly meeting of the Licensing Court was held at the Central Police Court yesterday. Present—Mr. G. O'Malley Clarke, S.M. (chairman), Mr. Johnson, S.M., and Mr. Macintosh, L.M. Christopher…

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Yesterday's Police Courts. CENTRAL

Evening News · Wednesday 23 January 1889 · page 6

A boy named William Begg, aged 10, was ordered to be sent on board the Vernon, having been found wandering about the streets and sleep in the open air…

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Curious Court Complications

Evening News · Wednesday 23 January 1889 · page 6

Anybody, and that is everybody, who reads the EVENING NEWS must have had their attention attracted by a number of cases which have cropped up for hearing in the Water Police Court…

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Small Debts Court

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Wednesday 23 January 1889 · page 2

In the following cases verdicts were given for the plaintiff with costs:—Goldberg Bros., v. F. M'Ivor, goods sold £1 10s 11d, costs 5s…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Wednesday 23 January 1889 · page 7

THE Metropolitan Licensing Bench sat at the Central Police Court yesterday. The following applications for transfers were granted:-- Thomas H. Kelly to…

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Law Report. Supreme Court—tuesday, January 22. In Bankruptcy. Sequestration Orders on Petition of Deetors

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1889 · page 11

David Henry, of Chippendale, hawker. Mr. L. T. Lloyd, official assignee. William Gardiner and Michael Maher, of Sussexstreet, Sydney, trading as Gardiner and Maher,…

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Burglary

The Australian Star · Thursday 24 January 1889 · page 6

WILLIAM BARNES, who had nothing to say, and complacently chewed tobacco all the time, was committed for trial at the Central to-day on a charge of having…

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Assault by an Architect

The Australian Star · Thursday 24 January 1889 · page 6

At the Central Police Court to-day the owner of a new suit, a gorgeous gold chain, a tall white topper, and a Teutonic cast of fat countenance, named John…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1889 · page 11

At the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday morning, before Mr. Abbott, S.M., a woman named Duffina Clough, 40, no occupation, was charged with stealing 15 yards of broche, silk, of the value of…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery. Promising Youths

Evening News · Thursday 24 January 1889 · page 6

Two youths, named James Ditcham and Edward Crawford, on remand, answered to their names in the Water Police Court on Wednesday on a charge of assaulting, in company with one another, Edward…

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Yesterday's Police Courts. CENTRAL

Evening News · Thursday 24 January 1889 · page 6

Mary Thompson, who cannot keep her tongue from using indecent language, was fined £3 or three months. Margaret Hamilton, for using obscene language, was fined £3 or two months…

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Serious Assault Upon a Woman. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1889 · page 9

Three men, named William Meredith, John Batty, and Arthur Wren, were arrested this afternoon, on a charge of alleged criminal assault upon Emma Hamilton, alias Riley. The woman's story…

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Law Notices. Supre Court.—thursday, January 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1889 · page 11

Chamber List.—At 10 a.m., Malek v. Marluff and another…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court.--thursday, January 24

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 January 1889 · page 5

CHAMBER LIST.--At 10 a.m.; Malex v. Marluff and another. A laborer named Charles Ellis was working at the now Coffee Palace yesterday, when a…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—wednesday, January 23. In Equity.—(Before his Honor Mr. Justice OWEN, Chief Judge in Equity.) Thomas and Another V. MINTON

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1889 · page 11

Mr. Hanbury Davies, instructed by Mr. Langdon, appeared for plaintiff, and moved that the interim injunction granted until that day to restrain the defendant from selling or otherwise dealing with a certain…

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Police

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 January 1889 · page 9

At the Water Police Court on Wednesday a seaman named Robert Ross (29) was charged with having broached a portion of the ship Shenir's cargo. The accused was seen to enter the…

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A Jewellery Burglary. £30,000 Worth Stolen. London, January 23

The Australian Star · Friday 25 January 1889 · page 5

A jewellery establishment in Brighton was broken into last night, and £30,000 worth of jewellery carried away…

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Yesterday's Police Courts. CENTRAL

Evening News · Friday 25 January 1889 · page 6

Wm. Carroll and John M'Guire would riot it Clarence-street, and Constable Devitt, a custodian of the peace, incontinently ran them in. £1 each or three days. Wm. H. Carmichael fined 5s of…

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