Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Courts & crime, all years

Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1893

7,042 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 250

Burglary at Junee

Evening News · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 6

JUNEE, Saturday.-A daring burglary took place in Junee early this morning, making the third of its kind within the last two months. This time the scene of operations was at the…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Alleged Extensive Burglary. and Desperate Assault. The Victim Dangerously Injured. Terrible Affair at Surry Hills. Attack on Constables--Arrest of a Man-Charged at the Central

The Australian Star · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 5

A VERY unpleasant experience fell to the lot of Senior-constable Jeffs and Constable Robins at about ten minutes past 4 this morning. Whilst these officers were on duty near the…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Country. Daring Burglary at Junee

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 5

JUNEE Saturday.--Another daring burglary took place in Junee early this morning, making the third of the kind within the last two months. This time the scene of…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 8

Mr. James Giles, D.S.M., presided at the Central Police Court on Saturday. Patrick Kirby was fined £1, in default 14 days' imprisonment, for having used indecent language, and £3, with the alternative of…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

The Assault on a Chinaman

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 8
Also in Evening News

At the Central Police Court on Saturday (before J. Giles, D.S.M.) William Mercer, 18, a bootmaker, was charged with having been concerned with others in inflicting grevious bodily…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Police. CENTRAL

Evening News · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 3

Alice Aird, 30, was fined 10s or seven days for having used indecent language in the Lighthouse Hotel, Bathurst-street. She didn't remember anything about it, but supposed she'd better…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Arrest of a Stipendiary Magistrate. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 5

Yesterday morning Mr. John Nicholson, S.M., of Adelaide and Glenelg, surrendered to the police. He had been known to be in financial difficulties for some time, and the news that he…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Building Society Frauds. a Stipendiary Magistrate Arrested

Evening News · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Monday.-Mr. John Nicholson, S.M., of Adelaide and Glenelg, surrendered to the police on Sunday morning. Mr., Nicholson was detained and Locked up in a cell at the police…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

In the Interests of Science. the Story of a Burglary

The Australian Star · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 2

THOUGH I had known George Martin a long time he had only lately initiated me into the mysteries of his lite. I knew well that he had been guilty of many kinds of…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

At the Water. Assault on a Constable

The Australian Star · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 5

HENRY FRAZER, a tobacco-presser who indulged in the pastime of throwing stones in Jesmond-street, Paddington, was fined 20s. or 14 days' gaol…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Mr, Ben Tillett. Charged with Inciting Rioters

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Friday Night.--Mr. Ben Tillett, the well-known labor leader, has been summoned on a charge of inciting men to commit disturbances during the recent…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Police Courts

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 3

CENTRAL. COURT--Patrick Kirby, a laborer, was fined £3, with the alternative of two months' imprisonment, at the Central Court on Saturday, for assaulting Joseph…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Applauding in Court. a Judicial Misconception

The Australian Star · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 3

AT the close of a recent sensational trial in London there was some applause. Said Mr. Justice Day:-- "If I knew the vulgar persona who come…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

A Buenos Ayres Plot. Firemen and Police Arrested

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday.--A plot anoug the police and firemen of Buenos Ayres, the capital of the Argentine Republic, to destroy the city by fire has been…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Presentation to Mr. T. Court, M. P.

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 4

During the intercolonial tug-of-war contests in Sydney Mr. Thomas Curran, afterwards elected Nationalist M.P. for Sligo (Ireland), took a prominent part both as a…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

London Unemployed. Demonstration at St. Paul's. a Sympathetic Sermon. Massing of the Police. LONDON, January 2

The Australian Star · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 6

In connection with the unemployed demonstration at St. Paul's Cathedral, it is stated that the sacred building was filled by the workless crowd, who maintained good…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Sensational Burglary. Attempted Murder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1893 · page 7

At the Central Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. Cornelius Delobery, S.M., Charles Brown, 46, a shoemaker, was charged with having broken into the White Lion Hotel, and having stole[?]…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

The Surry Hills Burglary

The Australian Star · Tuesday 3 January 1893 · page 5

MR. GEORGE HUNN, the publican who had such an exciting conflict yesterday morning with an armed burglar, by whom he was rather badly knocked about, has recovered…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1893 · page 7

Mr. Cornelius Delohery, S.M., presided at the Central Police Court yesterday. Edward Selfe, described as a barman, was fined 10s, with the alternative of three days' imprisonment, for having…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →