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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1892

7,229 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 250

Stealing

The Australian Star · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 6

AT the Newtown Court this morning Annastasia Hughes, 18, was charged with stealing two rings, valued at £3, and was' remanded till Monday…

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Attempted Murder

Evening News · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 6

Melbourne, Friday.—What appears to have been a deliberate attempt at murder is reported from Bairnsdale. An old Indian soldier named Cox, who had been engaged by the proprietor of…

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Daring Escape from Gaol

Evening News · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 1

A locksmith and ex-convict, named Johann Bissen, who was in gaol at Posen awaiting trial, has just made a daring escape from gaol after murdering a warder…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 7

Mr. Corneliias Delehery, S.M., presided in the Charge Division, and Mr. Whittingdale Johnson, S.M., in the Su[?]ons Division of the Central Police Court yesterday. Leo Dunn, 13, was charged under…

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Burglary at Ultimo. Capture by a Constable

The Australian Star · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 2

Two young men named Charles Onslow alias Frederick Bornstein and Martin Reilly were arraigned at the Central Police Court yesterday, charged with having burgled the Lord…

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Victoria. Attempted Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday.--News has been received from Bairnsdale of a dastardly attempt to murder an old man named Charles Cox, who was employed by Mr…

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Murder by Blacks

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 14

The steamer Adelaide has arrived at Port Darwin from Macarthur river. She brings news of the murder by native, at the end of January, of two men, named Dolitte and George Clarke, on…

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Police. WATER

Evening News · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 3

Thomas Kelly, alias Toomey, 28, fireman, was charged with having no lawful means of subsistence, and was sentenced to a month's hard labor. Henry Hardman, 29. laborer, and Kate Hughes,…

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The Northumberland Bank. Low and Hadfield Sentenced

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 45

George Samuel Hadfield, late managing director of the Northumberland Hanking Company, and Charles Low, manager of the Newcastle branch of the same institution, were brought up at…

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Penrith Police Court. MONDAY, Before Mr. J. K. Cleeve, P.M.

Nepean Times · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 6

John Knight, for alcohlism in High-street on Saturday night, hadn't got half-a-crown, and in consequence he had to beautify the surroundings of the Court House till 6 p.m…

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Katoomba Police Court. WEDNESDAY. Before Mr. J. K. Cleeve, P.M. CONVERSATIONAL

Nepean Times · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 6

Patrick Kelly, pleaded guilty to having made use of language of a very disgusting nature some days before, but pleaded for leniency on the ground that owing to the sitting of the Court being delayed he…

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An M.p. Sentenced. Defrauding a Trust Estate

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 5

LONDON, Friday, Noon.--The trial concluded to-day of George Woodyatt Hastings, Unionist-Liberal M.P. for East Worcestershire, charged " that he, being…

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Newtown Court

The Australian Star · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 6

RIOTOUS BEHAVIOR.--Alexander Stuart, 35, was fined 20s., levy and distress, for behaving in a riotous manner in King street, Newtown…

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The Great Pearl Theft. Sentence on Mrs. Osborne

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 16

ETHEL Osborne, wife of Captain Osborne who was the palaintiff in the recent sensational case of Osborne v. Hargreave and wife known as the "Great pearl Mystery," was brought up in London on…

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Ryde Police Court. Thursday, March 3. (Before Mr. W. Small, J.p.) Indecent Exposure

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 3

Fred Bark, charged with this offence, pleaded guilty, and was ordered to pay 20s or go up for 14 days. OBSCENE LANGUAGE…

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A Melbourne Mystery, the Windsor Murder

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 16

THE inquest into the murder of the woman at Windsor was continued iu Melbourne on Wednesday. The police think that the suspected man Williams is in Sydney. A cauary in a handsome…

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Land Court Decision

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 574

The decision, of the Land Court in the case of Boland's application for a conditional lease has an interest outside that of the parties immediately concerned, because it indicates the general…

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Parramatta Police Court. Saturday, March 5. (Before Messrs. R. Harper and N. Stewart, J's.P.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 6

Bridget Robinson, for using obscene language in Church-street, was fined 10s. in default 18 hours' imprisonment…

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The Blackmailing Case. Worland Sentenced to Ten Years. London, March 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 10

Maitland Francis Morland, a law tutor at Oxford, who was committed for trial on a charge of having attempted to obtain money by blackmail from Lord…

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Police. an Alleged Furniture Swindle

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 7

Charges of obtaining money over other people's furniture have become rather frequent of late, and a ease of this description came before the Central Court yesterday,…

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