Assault on a Constable. Prisoner Fined £10. NEWCASTLE
A man named Joseph Weir was fined £10 or four months in gaol on Saturday for having violently assaulted Sergeant Thompson while being placed in the cell at the…
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A Horrible Murder. a Mad Father Drowns His Child
BRISBANE, Sunday.--A man named Savage, licensee of the Wellington Point Hotel, while playing with his Infant daughter, aged 8 months, carried her to a swamp a quarter of a mile from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Law Notices. Supreme Court — Monday, January 19
Prothonotary [?] Office.—Bradley v. Palser, 10.30; Bradley v. O'Doud. 10.30; London Chartered Bank v. M'M[?]llan, 11.3g; Same v. Same. 11.30…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Riot at the London Docks. Intervention of the Police
LONDON, Sunday.—A number of coallumpers attacked a lot of free laborers employed at the Victoria Docks in the East End yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder of a Miner by Papuans. an Act of Cannibalism. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Cooktown
The ketch Victor arrived last night from Samara with 20 returned diggers and 80oz. of gold. She brings news of the murder of Bill Beckham alias Greasy Bill, a miner of Sudest, by the Papuans…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reported Murder at the "Rocks." Who Was the Victim? Mysterious Disappearance. Run to Earth. Man in Custody
Shortly before 4 p.m. on Saturday, a report gained currency that a horrible murder had been committed in that portion of the city known as the "Rocks," off George street north, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Law Report. Parramatta Quarter Sessions. Saturday, January 17. (Before his Honor Mr. District Court Judge M'FARLAND.)
Joseph George Beacroft, charged with stealing a mars, the property of George E. Beacroft, of King's Bush, was sentenced to three months in Parramatta gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Savage Assault
Thomas Smith was charged at the Central Court yesterday with having assaulted Cornelius Smith. Prosecutor stated that be was a carter residing at Parramatta-road, Forest…
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BATHURST, Tuesday.--Yesterday morning a prisoner named Thomas Somerfield died in the Bathurst Gaol. He was between 70 and 80 years of age, and had been…
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Mr. G. O'Mallev Clerke, S.M., presided at the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday. George Waters and Arthur Quill were charged with having played at a game of cards in Bathurst-street, to the annoyance…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charge of Stealing From a Dwelling
At the Water Police Court yesterday morning Cyril Hope, a young man, was charged with stealing in the dweling-house of Lydia Emma Greville, Allson-street, Coogee, one gold watch, one gold locket, one gold chain,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Governor's Arrival. a Pickpocket Sentenced
THOMAS WALTERS, who was improving the shining opportunity of the Governor's arrival on Thursday last by picking up any little trifle that was placed in his way, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bank Defalcations. a Clerk Charged
AT the Water Police Court to-day, before Captain Fisher, S.M., a young man named Alfred J. Wilgloss, lately employed as a clerk in the Paddington branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sentenced to Two Months. For Breaking a Collar-bone. WINDSOR
At the Windsor Police Court this morning John Lehane, jun., was sentenced to two months' imprisonment in Parramatta Gaol for an aggravated assault on William…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police. Another Boarding-house Robbery
A respectable-looking young man named Cyril Hope was yesterday charged at the Water Police Court, before Mr. Fisher, S.M., with stealing in the dwelling-house of Lydia Emma…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bankruptcy Court. Sequestration Order
William Plumb, of Candelo. Mr. Morris, official assignee. Debtors' petition…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Goulburn Cathedral Dispute. Police Court Proceedings Against Captain Rossi. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Goulburn
Captain Rossi left for Sydney this morning, it is supposed in connection with the injunction obtained against him. Last night numbers of people stayed round the cathedral till a late hour, there being a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Peak Hill Murder. Rumored Confession of Hansen. DUBBO
It is reported in town to-day that the man Hansen charged with the murder of Duueker, on the Peak Hillroad, now under committal in Dubbo…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Law Notices. Supreme Court.—tuesday, January 20
Master's Office (before the Deputy Registar).—At 10.30 a. m.: Re Underwood Estate Act and Account No. 13, to settle minutes of order; Minister for Public Instruction and L. E. Moss, to tax costs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Strange Death in a Police Station. a Verdict of Suicide
Yesterday afternoon an inquest was hold at the Cottage Hospital, Balmain, into the circumstances connected with the death of a man named Klaff Hagegoorl, who died in the local…
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