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Courts & crime, 1893

7,042 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 250

Seizure of a Still. The Botany-street Case. Two Men Charged

The Australian Star · Wednesday 4 January 1893 · page 5

BEFORE Mr. Smithers, D.S.M., at the Water Police Court to-day, two men named E[?]eas Ronaldson M'Donald and Otto Herman Wilhelm Schink[?]ar were charged…

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Sudden Death in a Police Station

The Australian Star · Wednesday 4 January 1893 · page 3

A MAN named John Bowden died rather suddenly at No. 2 Police Station last night. He had been locked up for drunkenness, but expired almost immediately after being…

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Thursday Island News. Faction Fight. Police Charge Rioters

Evening News · Wednesday 4 January 1893 · page 5

THURSDAY ISLAND, January 3.—The harbor is literally studded with small fishing loggers, this island being overran with colored people. During a heavy north west gale which has raged during…

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Fatal Boating Accident. A. Dingy Capsized at Homebush Bay. Two Workmen Drowned. the Police Skiff Endangered

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1893 · page 4

Yesterday afternoon, owing to the violence of the southerly gale, a dingy containing five men was swamped at Homebush Bay, Parramatta River, and two of the occupants,…

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The State of Ireland. Paction Fights and an Agrarian Outrage. Changing the Weapon Op the Police

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Monday Night.-- Faction fights between adherents of the Parnell and M'Carthy parties in Parliament have taken place at Kilrush, in County Clare,…

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Loss of H.M.S. Howe. the Fairfax Court-martial. Faulty Sailing Directions. LONDON, January 2

The Australian Star · Wednesday 4 January 1893 · page 5

At to-day's proceedings at the court-martial on Rear-Admiral Fairfax, in connection with the loss of H.M.S. Howe, Commander Hastings stated in evidence that the sailing…

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The Hawthorne Mystery. Extraordinary Development. a Striking Coincidence. Report By a Police Sergeant. An Unburied Corpse--A Government Undertaker Asked to Explain. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Wednesday 4 January 1893 · page 6

An extraordinary development is reported in connection with the Hawthorne mystery. Sergeant Holland, of Albert Park, has furnished a report to the Commissioner…

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European Events. the Guelph Fund. Agrarian Outrage in Ireland. Masked Men Fire on Women. The British Throne--Irish Police to be Disarmed. LONDON, January 3

The Australian Star · Wednesday 4 January 1893 · page 5

The report that the Guelph Fund has been expended for the purposes of bribery is discredited by the NATIONAL ZEITUNG, of Berlin. The Berlin POST…

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Newtown Police Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 2

STEALING.--A woman named Margaret Burns or Howard was yesterday sentenced to three months for stealing a jacket and other apparel…

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Charge of Burglary

Evening News · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 6

Thomas Elliott, 38, was charged at the Newtown Police Court yesterday with breaking and entering the dwelling-house of William Fernon, with intent to commit a felony. Thomas Amos…

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The Burglary at Junee

Evening News · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 6

COOTAMUNDRA, Wednesday.-The police yesterday arrested a man supposed to be the burglar who broke into the premises of Messrs. Burgess and Pentglin, jewellers and watchmakers, Junee…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 3

Mr. Cornelius Delohery, S. M., presided in the Central Police Court on Tuesday. William Thompson, 22, a harness-maker, was fined £2, levy and distress, or 21 days' imprisonment, for having…

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Trouble in Samoa. Alleged Insult to the British Flag. Natives Sent to Gaol. And Sentenced to the Lash

The Australian Star · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 2

THE Samoan papers to hand by the s.s. Monowai report a peculiar incident in which some natives are asserted to have insulted the British flag. The offenders were some…

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Alleges Assault and Rob[?]ry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 3

At the Water Police yesterday a well-dressed young man named James Gray waa charged before Mr. G. H. Smithers, D.S.M., that, in company with three others, he assaulted Ferdinand Stahlmar, and…

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Police. CENTRAL

Evening News · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 3

Joseph Beard, 32, on remand, charged with having illegally used a horse,the property of George Lander, was discharged. Alfred Jones, 28, on remand, charged with…

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Fatal Assault on a Chinaman. Inquest Continued

Evening News · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 4

The inquest was resumed in the City Coroner's Court, Chancery Square, this morning, on the body of the Chinaman Ah Bun, who died in the Sydney Hospital on Tuesday morning from…

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Fatal Assault on a Chinaman. the Inquest

Evening News · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 6

After our first edition went to press yesterday. Ah Fat, continuing his evidence, said: Deceased and he were carrying: their vegetable baskets. Witness was walking behind the…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery. a Chinese Attacked

The Australian Star · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 2

JAMES CONNELLY was charged at the Newtown Police Court yesterday with, in company with a man unknown, assaulting one Kee Lewis and robbing him of 3s. On…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 6

THEIR Worships Messrs. Johnson, S.M., and Smithers, D.S.M., formed the bench at to-day's meeting of the Water Division Licensing Court. The following transfers…

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Sensational West End Case. Extraordinary Charges of Theft

The Australian Star · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 8

AT Marlborough-street, London, recently, Gwyneth Maude, a fashionably-dressed young woman, of ladylike appearance, who gave her age as 18, and address Hyde Park…

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