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Courts & crime, 1889

7,156 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 250

The George-street Burglary

The Australian Star · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 5

AT the Central this morning Detectives O'Sullivan and Johnson brought up two young men on a charge of having committed the burglary in Messrs. Griffiths…

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Burglary in George-street

The Australian Star · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 8

THE small hours of yesterday morning afforded a further opportunity for the enterprising burglar to perfect a bold and successful "crack" in the leading…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Australian Star · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 5

COBAR, THIS DAY.-- A wire was received yesterday from Louth of two arrests for sheep stealing. Mr. M'Kell, P.M., has lets Cobar to-day to investigate the charges…

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Alleged Criminal Assault

The Australian Star · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 5

BRISBANE, This Day.-- The young man Thos. Wilson was brought up at the police court on a charge of criminally assaulting the girl Winter at Rosalie. The accused…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 11
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr. Johnson, S.M., presided in the Charge Division of the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday morning. Margaret M'Donald, 20, no occupation, for maliciously injuring a pane of glass and a bottle containing…

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Another Assault on a Boy

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 7

Samuel Burns was charged at the Central Court yesterday, with having assaulted Henry Herbert Saul, a boy about eight years of age. On Saturday evening he endeavored to induce…

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Arrested for Murder

The Australian Star · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 5

BRISBANE, This Day.-- Hans Hansen Mieland a carrier on the Port Douglas- road, has been arrested for having murdered his son by beating him to death…

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Licensing Court

Evening News · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 3
Also in The Australian Star, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph

A meeting of the above court was held yesterday at the C.P.C., Mr. G. O'Malley Clarke, S.M. (chairman); Mr. W. Johnson, S.M.; and Mr. J. Macintosh, L.M. presiding…

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A Brutal Assault. £10 Fine, of Four Months

Evening News · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 6

A stalwart fellow named Samuel Burns appeared at the Central Police Court on Tuesday, on remand, charged with having unlawfully assaulted a little boy, aged 8 years, named Henry Herbert…

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The Botany Murder Case. the Inquest

Evening News · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 6

After the execution, and the body had been cut down and removed to the dead-house, the customary inquest was held before the Acting-Coroner, Mr. J. C. Woore…

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Yesterday's Police Courts. CENTRAL

Evening News · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 3

A thoroughly abandoned young woman named Margaret M'Donald, who used filthy language in court, was fined £5, or three months, with hard labor, for having used indecent language in…

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Land Appeal Court

The Australian Star · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 3

A SITTING of the Land Appeal Court [?] been arranged for January 28 at 10 a.m…

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An Attorney in Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 11

At the Central Police Court, yesterday morning, Mr. Williamson was again present to explain certain circumstances growing out of the case of an Indian named Fuzeldeen, charged with stealing in a dwelling, which…

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A Court of Survey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 8

Under the new Marine Board Act at Melbourne, a court of survey is provided for. In cases where a master or owner of a vessel desires to appeal to the Court of survey, his appeal may be lodged with the clerk of the court, and the members…

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The Young Murder. Two Men Arrested. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 5

YOUNG, Tuesday.--Detective Cooking (and not Lewis, as previously telegraphed) was up here on Sunday and Monday investigating the crime, and left for some up-line township…

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Murder in Queensland. Beating a Son to Death. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 5

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--A carrier named Wieland has been arrested on a charge of murder at Port Douglas. He beat his son to death with a horsewhip…

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