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Courts & crime, 1891

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Katoomba Small Debts Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 4

T. Watson sued John Williams for £10 damages, values, value of pigs destroyed. The bench returned a verdict for defendant. A number of other small cases were also settled…

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Bankruptcy Court. Voluntary Sequestration

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 40

3390. Leigh Menghini, of Wattle Flat. Mr. Stephen, assignee. 3406. Thomas Penford, of Hamilton Junction, near Newcastle. Mr. Stephen, assignee…

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Death of John Mitchel's Brother. the "Dear William" of the Gaol Journal

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 6

"One who Know Him" writes in United Ireland, January 31:— There is one spot in historic Newry which has an abiding interest for the Irish people: it to the…

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Katoomba Police Court. WEDNESDAY. Before Mr. J. K. Cleeve, P.M., and Messrs. Rodd, Goyder and Fletcher, J's.P

Nepean Times · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 4

A charge against John Williams, for cruelly torturing 5 pigs by shooting them, was dismissed, costs being allowed as follows, professional £2 2 0 and two witnesses 10s 6d each…

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Parramatta Police Court. Wednesday, March 11.(Before Mr. J. Giles, P.M., and Messrs. B. Harper and O. Saunders, J’s.P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 4

JOHN HOGDEN pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk at Granville, and was fined 5s ; alternative, imprisonment till the rising of the Court…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court.—monday, March 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 11

Master's Office.—At 10.30 a.m.: St. George Gold-mining Company, Limited, to proceed on settlement of list of contributores. At 12 noon: Buckuell v. Vickery, to proceed on accounts…

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Metropolitan District Court. Friday. (Before his Honour Mr. Acting District Court Judge Gibson.) Morris V. LYONS

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 11

In this case Messrs. John Morris, Bonjamin Morris, and William Morris, trading together as Messrs. Morris Brothers, brickmakers, sued C. H. Lyons, secretary of the Civil Service Building Society, for the sum of…

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The BanK Frauds. Bradley Before the Court

Evening News · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 6

Detective Cocking arrived in Sydney shortly after noon yesterday with Joseph E. Bradley, and later on Bradley was brought up at the Central Police Court, before Mr. C. Delohery, on a charge…

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District Court. Friday, March 13. (Before Acting Judge Gibson.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 11

Morris v. Lyons, for judgment.--In this case, which had been held over for judgment, John Morris, Benjamin Morris and William Morris, trading as Morris Brothers, sought to recover…

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Bank Manager Bradley. Back from Blumberg. Arrival at Redfern. Appearance before the Court

The Australian Star · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 6

JOSEPH R. BRADLEY, the ertswhile manager of the Devonshire-street branch of the E.S. and A.C. Bank, and whose surreptitious flight from this city a few weeks…

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Law. Supreme Court. Friday, March 13. No. 1. JURY COURT.--(Before the Chief Justice and a jury of four.) Connell and Others V. Reid and Another (Part Heard)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 11

Mr Want, Q.C., And Dr. Sly (instructed by Messrs. Sly and Hamilton) for the plaintiffs; Mr. Pilcher, Q.C., and Mr. C. B. Stephen (instructed by Messrs. Creagh and Williams) for the…

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Shearing Troubles. Unionists' Meetings. Inflammatory Speeches. Rioting at Clermont. Before the Court. Pastoralists' Convention

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 12

The spectacle still, presents itself on the Peak Downs, in Central. Queensland, of large camps of unionist shearers and laborers engaged in the task of endeavoring to intimidate and prevent men from…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—friday, March 13. No. 1 Jury Court.—(Before his Honor the Chief Justice and a jury of four.) Connbll and Another V. Reid and Another (Part Heard)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 11

Mr. Want, Q.C., and Dr. Sly, inatructed by Messrs. Sly and Hamilton, appeared for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Plicher, Q.C., and Mr. C. B. Stephen, instructed by Messrs. Creagh and Williams, for the…

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Penrith Licensing Court. TUESDAY. Before Mr. J. K. Cleeve, Chairman, and Dr. Bond, L.M.

Nepean Times · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 4

George Mutch, the licensee of the Royal Hotel, Springwood, applied for six months leave of absence on. account of illness, during which time his brother David, with the consent of the Bench, would take…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 March 1891 · page 3

Mr. C. Delohery, D.S.M., presided at the CENTRAL POLICE COURT on Saturday. Maria Jenkins, 37. was ordered to pay £2 16s for having maliciously broken a plain-glass window, the properly of the licensee of the…

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Victoria. Arrested for Child Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 March 1891 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Early yesterday morning a young married woman named Julia M'Carty was arrested at the Women's Hospital on a charge of having murdered an infant which…

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Lynch Law. a Murder at New Orleans

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 March 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.--Eleven Sicilians, who were acquitted on a charge of murdering the Chief of the Police at New Orleans, have been lynched by the populace…

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Divorce Court. Rule Nisi for Attachment

Evening News · Monday 16 March 1891 · page 5

FOWLER v. FOWLER.—Before his Honor Mr. Justice Windeyer, in the Divorce Court this morning, an application was made by the petitioner (the wife) for a rule nisi for an…

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The Dog-killing Business and the Police. To the Editor

Evening News · Monday 16 March 1891 · page 2

Sir,—I am a very " sad dog"—applying the expression literally, and not in the vernacular of the race that walks erect—also, I'm a. dog with " a mission," which I beg your powerful…

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The New Orleans Murder. Rising of the Populace. Gunshops Pillaged—prison Forced. Eleven Sicilians Shot

Evening News · Monday 16 March 1891 · page 6

LONDON, March 14.—The Sicilians charged with the murder of Chief of the Polios Hennessy, in New Orleans, have been acquitted…

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