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Courts & crime, 1889

7,156 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 250

Redfern Police Court

The Australian Star · Wednesday 2 January 1889 · page 6

THE BENCH.-- The Court business is commonly supposed to commence at 10 a.m. sharp, but owing to the absence of a stipendiary, it was, last Thursday,…

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Water Police Court

The Australian Star · Wednesday 2 January 1889 · page 6

A POOR COMMENCEMENT.-- Alfred Manning went to prison for the first three months of 1889 for being a loafer during 1888…

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Charge of Burglary

Evening News · Wednesday 2 January 1889 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-A man, named Alfred Carpenter, was arrested, on Tuesday, on a charge of burglary and stealing furniture from the residence of his cousin, a Mr. Lusty. The…

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Wool-Stealing

The Australian Star · Wednesday 2 January 1889 · page 6

LITHGOW, This Day.-- Thomas Ryan and Dennis Stack were brought up at the police court, yesterday, on a charge of stealing wool from Liddleton station, and…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1889 · page 7

Mr. Abbott, S.M., presided at the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday morning. Thomas Dougald, 30, silversmith, for using indecent language in York-street, was fined £3, or two months in gaol. Walter Weeks,…

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Extraordinary Charge of Assault. the Chemist and His Client

The Australian Star · Wednesday 2 January 1889 · page 5

AT the Central Police Court to-day a respectably dressed woman, named Maggie Blair, alias M' Cleery, was charged on warrant with having assaulted Mary Jane…

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The Boy Murder at Bradford. Arrest of a Milkman

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 January 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.--An inquest was commenced yesterday into the circumstances attending the murder and horrible mutilation of a boy at Bradford…

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Circumstantial Evidence. Innocent Men Sent to Penal Servitude. Nearly Ten Years in Gaol

The Australian Star · Wednesday 2 January 1889 · page 7

THE following particulars regarding the release of two innocent men sentenced to penal servitude on charges of burglary and attempted murder are to hand from…

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The Irish Crimes Act. an M.P. Sent to Gaol. London, January 1

The Australian Star · Wednesday 2 January 1889 · page 4

Mr. Edward-Harrington, M.P. for West Kerry, and proprietor of the Kerry SENTINEL, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment in accordance with…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court.—wednesday, January 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1889 · page 7

In Equity—Chancery-square.—Before his Honor the Chief Judge: Selfe v. Dalgety and Co., to continue injunction; Boyle v. Broughton, to continue injunction…

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The Horrible Murder at Bradford. Inquest on the Boy Victim. Arrest of a Milkman. London, January 1

The Australian Star · Wednesday 2 January 1889 · page 4

The inquest on the remains of the boy who was murdered and mutilated at Bradford, commenced yesterday. Some evidence was taken and the inquest was…

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To-day's Supreme Court. in Equity. (Before the Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Owen.)

Evening News · Wednesday 2 January 1889 · page 5

SELFE V. DALGETTY AND OTHERS.-This was a matter in which Norman Selfe sought an injunction to restrain Dalgetty and Company, their servants, agents, and workmen, from making, using…

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The Judicial Inquiry "The Times" V. Mr. Parnell. Sketch of the Great Case. No. 9. an Alleged Contempt of Court

The Australian Star · Wednesday 2 January 1889 · page 3

On Tuesday, November 17, the commission was again engaged in hearing evidence as to outrages in Kerry. As soon as the commissioners had taken their seats,…

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Police

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 January 1889 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. M'Nevin, Denis Collins, laborer, for stealing a hoe valued at 2s 6d, the property of Com Chow, of Rushcutters' Bay, was sentenced…

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The Botany Murder

Evening News · Thursday 3 January 1889 · page 4

A public meeting convened by Messrs. Dibbs, Garvan, Copeland, J. P. Abbott and other members of Parliament will be held to-night in the Town Hall for the purpose of considering what…

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Attempted Murder and Suicide

Evening News · Thursday 3 January 1889 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

BRISBANE, Wednesday.-Albert Pritchard, residing at Wollongabba, came home drank on New Year's Eve, took the baby and attempted to cut its throat. His wife rescued the child and ran…

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Bankruptcy Court

Evening News · Thursday 3 January 1889 · page 6

SEQUESTRATIONS ON PETITION OF DEBTORS. No. 850. William Mitchell, of George-street Burwood, near Sydney, plumber. Mr. L.T. Lloyd, official assignee…

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Escape from Gaol. Gleeson the Burglar at Large

Evening News · Thursday 3 January 1889 · page 6

A telegram from Dunedin on December 22, to the Auckland Evening Stab says: Thomas Gleeson, the burglar, escaped last night from gaol by cutting one end of the bars of his cell window…

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