Chasing a Gaol Escapee
BATHURST, Tuesday— A man named Roberts, who was being brought from the gaol to the courthouse on a charge of stealing goods from Edgley and Company, escaped this morning from…
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Fruit Stealing in the District
On Tuesday last at the Penrith Police Court, Walter Webb was charged with being on the enclosed land of Dr. Shand, at Frogmore for an unlawful purpose, on the 16th instant. The accused…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Penrith Police Court. TUESDAY. Before the P.M. Obscene Language
George Connors, a boy of 11 years, was charged with using obscene language in High-street, to which he pleaded guilty. His Worship reflected severely upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Kerry Matericide a Clergyman Sentenced to Death
At the Munster Winter Assizes on December 15, before Judge O'Brien, the Rev. George's C. Grifliths, Protestant elergyman, was tried for the wilful murder of his mother at Kilglyn,…
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John Bell, 26, and Henry Chalker, 32, on remand, charged with having insufficient lawful visible means of support, were discharged. Mary Anderson, 27, was remanded on a charge…
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FURIOUS DRIVING WHILST DRUNK. --At Redfern Court yesterday, before Mr. C. Delohery, S.M., James Laughlin(36), cabman, was fined 20s or seven days for being…
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Mary Hart, 26, was charged with using indecent language. Senior-constable Whalen read a page full of indecent expressions, only part of which she admitted using. She, however, pleaded guilty,…
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An open court, for revising the municipal lists, was held at the conclusion of the Council meeting, on Wednesday. Present: The Mayor (Ald. Downey), Dale, Vallance, Anthony,…
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The following sequestrations have been made daring the past week:— Harry Bartlett, of debtors' ward, Darlinghurst. Mr. E. M. Stephen, official assignee…
Continued on Trove, page 202 →From Information Received. Slumborough - Road Mystery. Mike Doolan and the Murder. A Wife's Evidence--Why the Police Did Not Prosecute for Murder --The Law of Evidence
The Slumborough-road mystery was a murder. A cruel murder perpetrated for the sake of gain upon a defenceless old man. And no one was louder in denouncing it at…
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THE now electoral roll for the new constituency of Sherhrooke was revised before the P.M., Mr. Badham, on Wednesday. Mr. John Mills, the registrar, was in attendance…
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An open court was held on Wednesday. Present—The Mayor (Ald. Cox), and Aldermen Spurway, Midson, Eylee, Johnston and Grims, One application to have a name inserted was…
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The sittings of the Land Appeal Court commenced at Darlinghurst Monday before Commissioners Oliver (president), Freeman, and Brandis. Mr. Canaway appeared on behalf of the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The Late Police Superintendent Orridge
The news of the death of Mr. J. W. Orridge, Superintendent of Police for the Southern district, on the 11th instant, was heard of with regret by very many colonists. It was (says the Goulburn Herald)…
Continued on Trove, page 186 →Dynamite and Murder. Is It a Tory Trick?
LONDON, January 22.— According to the Tory papers a manifesto has been issued by the American Irish National League which advocates a return to the use of dynamite, and incites to…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A Second Arrest. the Dora Dora Murder. Jackey Taken at Mackay. Heavily Ironed--Reported Escape-- The Police Reticent--On the Track. BRISBANE
Jackey, the second Dora Dora black, has been traced to Mackay. A gentleman came into Mackay yesterday from Jolimont station and reported that one of the Dora…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sherbrooke Revision Court. Adjourned Sittings—Friday
Joseph Davis’s claim and James Dalton’s were disallowed. Three names—George Beet, William Best, and Robert H. Best—on Blacktown list, were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Parramatta Police Court. Friday, January 19. (Before Mr. C. L. C. Badham, P.M., and Mr. R. Harper, J.P.) Railway Case
George Candle was charged with crossing the railway line, at Granville, at an unauthorised place; also, with impeding a railway officer in the execution of his duty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The New Granville Electoral Roll Revision Court
The first Granville Electoral Roll under the new Electoral Act was revised at the Parramatta Courthouse on Monday last, before Mr. C. L. C. Badbam, P.M. Mr. Ralph…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Parramatta Police Court Monday, January 22. (Before Mr. C.L.C. Badham, P.M., and Messrs. R. Harper and G. Coates. senr.,J's.P)
Andrew Cauldwell charged with being of unsound mind was remanded to gaol for a week's medical treatment and observation. Margaret White, a respectable looking…
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