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Courts & crime, 1893

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Police Business. the Annual Returns

Evening News · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 4

The annual returns of the business transacted during 1892 at the Central Police Court show an increase in the number of cases dealt with, as compared with the previous year of 552…

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Parramatta Police Court. Wednesday. January Ii. (Before Mr. F. W. Edwards, P.M., end Mr R. Harper, J.P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 6

Henry Range. was charged with having light weights in his possession.—Defendant was fined 408, and costs. Lily Engrain pleaded guilty to a charge of a…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court.—monday, January 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 5

In Equity.—Before the Deputy Registrar: At 11 a.m., Railway Commissioners and claim of Sconlon, to tax costs; at 12.30, Lode Hill Tin-mining Company, Limited, to settle minutes of order…

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Katoomba Police Court. Wednesday. Before Messrs J. K. Cleeve P.M., F. C. Goyder, and D. McKillop J.s P. Abducting a Female

Nepean Times · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 7

Harry Friedhoff a German 30 years of age, was charged with the abduction of a girl named Annie Norman, 18 years of age. Constable Hamilton arrested the accused…

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Penrith Licensing Court. TUESDAY. Before Messrs. J. K. Cleeve (Chairman)

Nepean Times · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 7

A. W. Stephen, and J. W. Fletcher (L.M.'s) George Carey applied for a conditional license for a hotel to he called the Mountain View Hotel, Emu Plains…

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The Nepean Times. Publisubd Every Saturday Morning. Saturday, January 14Th, 1893. Police Proceedings

Nepean Times · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 4

A potent incentive to distrust as far as the Penrith Police Court is concerned is the matter of police prosecutions, for it is known that before cases in which the police…

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Law. Supreme Court Friday, January 13. IN CHAMBERS.--(Before Mr. Justice Foster.) O'BRIEN V. HAYNES

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 12

Mr. D. Robertson, on behalf of defendant applicant, John Haynes, moved to Bet aside a judgment, and to have defendant allowed time to plead. Judgment had been signed…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—friday, January 13. In Chambers.—(Before Mr. Justice Foster.) O'brien V. HAYNES

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 5

Mr. Robertson (Messrs. Wallace and Robson) appeared for the defendant, John Haynes, and moved for an order to set aside the judgment signed against defendant, and to allow him…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 7

Mr. G. O'Malley Clarke, S.M., presided in the Central Police Courton Saturday. Margaret Carter, 28, and Mary Holden, 26, were each sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour on charges…

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Police. WATER

Evening News · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 6

Sarah Weir, 27, against whom there were 20 convictions for petty offences, was fined 20s for drunkenness in Oxford-street, Paddington, and an additional 40s or a month for obscene…

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The Police Courts

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 5

CENTRAL COURT.--For brutally assaulting his wife, Henry Edmonds, who has just come out of gaol for a similar assault, was at this court on Saturday sentenced to six mouths'…

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The Theft of Ore at the Golden Gully

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 7

STUARTTOWN, Friday.--Three of the directors of the Golden Gully Gold-mining Company, Messrs. Inglis (chairman), Scantlebury, and Joseph, arrived hero to-day and…

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A Peculiar Case. Alleged Theft of a £5 Note

The Australian Star · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 5

AT the Water Police Court to-day William Dunkley, or Duntley, an elderly mutt, was charged with the theft of the stun of £5, the moneys of Thomas Cooper…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court.—monday, January 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 7

Is Equity.—Before the Deputy Registrar: At 11 a. m., Railway Commissioners and claim of Sconlon to tax costa; at 12.30, Lode Hill Tin-mining Company, Limited, to settle minutes of order…

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At This Central. a Trifle Too Handy. Alleged Assault and Robbery. The Early Bird Catches the Milk, but the Policeman is Sometimes Up Ahead of Him

The Australian Star · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 6

A FULL-SIZED saddler named Patrick Hinds was charged with having assaulted Thomas Swan, and further, with having meted out similar treatment to Stephen Flinn…

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The Randwick Burglary. Brown Charged at the Water

The Australian Star · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 6

CHARLES BROWN, alias Gustave Clive, alias Kruger, the man who is already under committal for the Surry Hills burglary, came before Mr. Johnson, S.M., at the…

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Newtown Police Court

The Australian Star · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 6

A DEALER DEALT WITH.--Frederick Kenny, a dealer, was sentenced to seven days for behaving in a riotous manner in King-street, Newtown…

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Alleged Burglary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 3

In the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Whittingdale Johnson, S.M., Charles White, alias Gustave Clive, alias Kruger, a bootmaker, 46 years of age, was charged with having…

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Milk Stealing

Evening News · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 6

George Roberts, 16, on remand, was charged before Mr. J. Giles, D.S.M., at the Central P. C. yesterday, with having a milk can in his possession supposed to have been stolen. Constable Harris…

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The Police Courts. Theft From an Emp Loyer

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 3

William Dunkley, or Duntley,, was charged at the Water Police Court yesterday with stealing £5, the property of his employer, Thomas Cooper Hinsheliff, draper, 103…

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