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Courts & crime, 1889

7,156 stories in Sydney's papers · page 67 of 250

Licensing Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 4

Before Messrs. J. K. Lethbridge and Bond, Js.P. Robert Gibson applied for the transfer of the license of the Orient Hotel, Emu, to himself from Kate Nystrom…

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The Webster Court-Martial

Evening News · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 5

The court-martial convened for the trial of Warrant-officer Wm. Webster, of the N.S.W. Artillery, continued taking evidence on Friday. Warrant-officer Henry Green, brigade sergeant…

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Murderous Assault Near Coraki. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Coraki

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 11

On Tuesday last a murderous assault was made on Mr. Farquhar M'Lennon, an old resident of Codrington, by a tenant of his named James Grady, who was armed with a cane knife. The latter proceeded to the residence…

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Prosecution of Impersonators. the Police Moving

Evening News · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 6

On Friday Sir Henry Parkes had submitted for his perusal the papers in connection, with the wholesale impersonation of electors by a protectionist coterie in the recent Central Cumberland…

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Law Notices for Monday. Supreme Court

The Australian Star · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 5

BANKRUPTCY.--Sydney Howard, Michal Bradley, Joseph Turner, Abel John Co[?]roft, John Brown, William Lamont Douglas, Emanuel Cantor, William John Stephenson,…

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Metropolitan District Court. Friday. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Fitzhardinge.) Cowie V. Reid (Part Heard)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 8

This was a case commenced the previous day, and in which Alexander Cowie and Alexander M'Hardy, of Parramatta and Sydney respectively, sued J. R. Reid, of Sy[?]y-street, North Willoughby, for the recovery…

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Bankruptcy Court. Sequestrations on Petitions of Debtors

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 12

No. 1021. William Norton Frazer, of Mittagong, lately of Chippendale, laborer. Mr. L. T. Lloyd, official assignee. No. 1022. Emile Antonie Roty, of Mittagong…

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District Court. (Before his Honor Judge Fitzbardince)

Evening News · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 6

COWIE v. REID.—This was anthoer [?] arising out of a quarry. The plaintiff, Alex[?] Cowie, of Parramatta, sued J. A. Reid, of N[?] Willoughby, for £29 8s 6d, for the alleged wrong…

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District Court. Friday, March 15. (Before Judge Fitzhardinge.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 10

Wetter and Co. v. A. M'Cracken.--Claim by Wetter and Co., of Wynyard-street. Sydney, importers of Swiss goods, against A. M'Cracken. for the recovery of the sum of £102 4s 7d, for…

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Half-an-hour in Gaol. Five Minutes in a Dark Cell. "For the Term of His Natural Life."

The Australian Star · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 6

I'VE been in gaol since last I wrote to the STAR, This sounds "orful," does it not? However, I was in remarkably good company, having for an escort a Cabinet…

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Law. Supreme, Court. Friday. March 15. No.1 JURY COURT.--(Before Mr. Justice Foster and juries of four.) ENGLISH V. GIBBS

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 10

Mr. Tarleton (instructed by Mr. R. H. Levien) appeared for the plaint[?], Wm. English: there was no appearance for the defendant, F. A. Gibbs hotel-broker. The…

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Law Beport. Supreme Court—friday, March 15. Banco Court.—(Before his Honor Mr.Justice FOSTER and a jury of four.) ENGLISH V. GIBBS

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 8

Mr. Tarleton, instructed by Mr. R. H. Levien, appeared for the plaintiff. William English, who sued defendant. Francis Algernon Gibbs, to recover [?]the sum of £50 paid to him as a deposit for the purchase of an…

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News by Telegraph. New South Wales News. A Police Station Destroyed by Fire

Evening News · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 6

MOLONG, Thursday.—Information has just been received that Meranburn police station was burned on Sunday afternoon. It was an old wooden building, leased by the Government. Mr…

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The Court House Acoustics. To the Editor of the Nepean Times

Nepean Times · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 3

Sir,—In the report of Small Debts Court last issue the case Nash v. Horstman is a mistake, it should have been Nash v. Hausburn for the recovery of a 6 mouths old dishonoured cheque. By…

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Yesterday's Supreme Court. NO. 1. JURY. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Foster and a jury of four.)

Evening News · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 6

LENTHALL v. ROGERS.—This was the trial of an issue under the New Property Act, the plaintiff being Catherine Mary Lenthall, and the defendants Thos. Broughton and F. E. Rogers; and…

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.Home and Foreign Ireland. William O'brien's Escape From the Coercion Court. His Secret Flight From Ireland. a Series of Lucky Adventures

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 5

Police violence and the insolence of the Removables (says the Dublin NATION, Feb. 2), reached their climax at Carrick. Never in any land boasting the possession of a civilized…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 March 1889 · page 4
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr. Johnson, S.M., presided at the CENTRAL POLICE COURT on Saturday William Alliston Benson, 26, clerk, was charged by warrant with embezzling £17 11s. 3d., the moneys of the…

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Saturday's Police Courts. WATER

Evening News · Monday 18 March 1889 · page 6

John Payne was remanded till next Tuesday, on a charge of stealing, in company "with another, thirty-three empty bottles, value 1s, the property of John Kelly…

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Presented at Court

Evening News · Monday 18 March 1889 · page 5

LONDON, March 17.—Mr. Bradden, the Agent-General for Tasmania, and Sir George Innes, of New South Wales, have been presented at Court…

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