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Courts & crime, 1891

5,942 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 250

The Land Court at Armidale. [By Telegrapr.] (From Our Correspondent.) Armidale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1891 · page 7

The Land Court, consisting of Mr. F. K. Rogers Q.C. (president), and Messrs. Brandis and Freeman, opened its first Court here yesterday morning. There was a large attendence of the public and parties having…

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The Shearing Trouble. General Call Out Resolved Upon. Additional Protection for Barcaldine. an Editor in Trouble. the Rioters Before the Court

Evening News · Thursday 12 March 1891 · page 6

BRISBANE, Thursday.—The Government has received intimation from a reliable source that the union shearers and laborers have been called out all over the colony. Advices from Barcaldine…

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Sentenced

The Australian Star · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 3

HIS Honor Judge Backhouse sentenced the following prisoners at the Quarter Sessions yesterday afternoon:--Thomas Candell and Charles Johnson, attempting to break and…

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Burglary at Balmain

Evening News · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 3

At the Quarter Sessions yesterday John Latimer pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with having broken into the shop of William O'Toole and stolen 1061b of tobacco, 1700 cigars,…

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M'Clintock Sentenced

Evening News · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 5

At the Quarter Sessions yesterday, before bis Honor Judge Backhouse, John M'Clintock, lately a clerk employed in the National Bank of Victoria, who, on Tuesday, pleaded guilty to an indictment…

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Death in Gaol

Evening News · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 3

A prisoner named Charles Wilding, aged 46 years, died in the Darlinghurst Gaol Hospital on Thursday. He was undergoing a sentence of two months' hard labor for vagrancy, and was…

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Death in the Gaol

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 6

Yesterday a prisoner named Charles Welding, 46 years of age, died suddenly in Darlinghurst Gaol. He was under sentence of two months' imprisonment for vagrancy and was received into…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 7

Mr. C. Delohery presided at the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday. Andrew Knox, for assaulting Frank Tanner, a lad, at Lillie Bridge by kicking him on the knee, was lined £3, with 42s professional costs,…

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Police. Unhealthy Premises

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 2

Philip Percy Samuels, of the Colounade Hotel 656 George-street, was summoned at the Central Court yesterday by the city inspector of nuisances for permitting filth to remain on his…

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Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The usual weekly meeting of the Water Police Division Licensing Court was held yesterday, Messrs. T. K. Abbott, S.M., J. Graham and J. N. Brooks, D.S.Ms. on the Bench. The…

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Water Licensing Court

Evening News · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 6

The ordinary weekly meeting of the Licensing Bench was held at the Water Police Court yesterday. Mr. Abbott, S.M., presided, and with him were Mr. Brooks, D.S.M., and Mr. Graham,…

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Narbethong Tragedy. Jealousy and Murder. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 2

The police have now a clue against the missing man Colston, suspected of the Narbethong murders. A story is current that a woman is at the bottom of the tragedy…

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Bank Frauds. Allingham in Court

Evening News · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 5

William J. Allingham was charged before Sir. Brooks, D.S.M., at the Water Police Court for that on March 4,1889, he, with intent to defraud, did make a false entry in the general…

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Sunday Comfort. The Police on the Track

The Australian Star · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 6

IN the Summons division of the Water today the inspectors were busy prosecuting publicans for various breaches of the licensing laws, and the said publicans were quite…

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The Shearing Trouble. Scene in Court

Evening News · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 6

CLERMONT, Thursday.—A most painful scene occurred in the police court to-day. The first case called was one of assault on February 23, brought by Daniel Murphy, one of those charged…

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Metropolitan District Court. Thursday. (Before his Honour Mr. Acting District Court Judge Gibson.) Dalgety V. ELLIS

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 7

Messrs. Rolin and Whitfield, (instructed by Mr. Rolin) appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Ralston (instructed by Mr. G. J. Sly) appeared for defendant. This was an action brought by Dalgety and Co.,…

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Quarter Sessions. Thursday, March 12. (Before Judge Backhouse.) Mr. W. L. Merewether prosecuted on behalf of the Crown. HORSE-STEALING

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 3

Thomas O'Connor, a boy, pleaded guilty to having on February 12, at Redfern, stolen one gelding, the property of William John Dance. Accused being under the age of 16 years the…

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District Court. Thursday, March 12. (Before Acting Judge Gibson.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 3

Dalgety v. Ellis. This was an action between Dalgety and Co., Limited, and James Colo Ellis to recover £131 under the following circumstances. It was agreed by charter party…

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The Bathurst Licensing Court. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 5

At the Licensing Court to-day, before Mr. J. B. Graham, P.M., the Hon. B. Webb, and Dr. Bassett, application was made for a conditional license for a grand hotel to be established at the corner of William…

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