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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1895

8,272 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 250

A Costeress in Court

The Australian Workman · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 4

MISS FLORENCE LEYBOURNE, daughter of the famous George of a generation ago, and wife of the even more famous Albert Chevalier, came into the…

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Tragedy in Tasmania. Murder and Suicide by a Husband

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 5

HOBART, Friday. What is supposed to be a terrible tragedy was enacted yesterday at Pattersonia, a town is miles from Launceston. News was brought, to town late…

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The Tasmanian Tragedy. Murder and Suicide. Particulars Op the Crime

Evening News · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 6

LAUNCESTON, January 26.-Concerning the tragedy which took place at Patter-Bonia on Thnrsday morning, when a Mrs. James Wilson, wife of an…

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Wyalong Jumping Cases. Warden's Court Proceedings

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 16

WYALONG, January 17.—On the opening of the Warden's Court this morning, the so-named jumping cases came on for hearing…

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Ryde Licensing Court, Saturday, January 19

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 2

Louis Frederich applied for a certificate authorising the issue of a publican’s conditional license, for a house to be built at Thornleigh. The application was granted; the house to be…

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Parramatta Police Court. Friday, January is(Before Mr. N.Brooks, acting P.M., and Messrs. Stewart, Harper, and Goold, J's,P.) DRUNK

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 2

Patrick Ha[?]n, pleaded gu[?]y to being drunk in park-street, Parrnmatra. He was fined as;or to be leeked up till 2 o' clock…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court.—monday, January 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 7

Before the Chief Clerk in Bankruptey.—At 2.15: In re Allen, taxation of official assignee's costs…

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News by Cable. a German Murder Plot. The Emperor Threatened Malcontent Workmen

Evening News · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 4

LONDON, January 25. -Prince Hohenlohe, the Gernman Chancellor, has received an anonymous letter containing a warning that malcontent…

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Parramatta Police Court. FRIDAY, 25th JANUARY, 1805. (Before Mr. .J. N. Brooks, Acting P. M., S. Goold and R. Harper, J's.P.) of Unsound Mind

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 8

John Young who bad been twice remanded, for medical treatment was discharged. ENTERING UPON ENCLOSED LANDS. George Gregory, june., was charged by…

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Parramatta Police Court. Friday, January 18.(Before Messrs. J. N. Brooks, P.M.; and B. Harper, S. Goold and N. Stewart, J.’s P.)CASUALS

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 3

Patrick Hannan was fined [?], for drunkenness. Mary Parker, for a like offence, was similarly treated; and was fined another 6s for…

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Thefts on the Railway. Cases at the Court

The Australian Star · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 11

An engineer named Alexander M'Lellan, who was arrested with others on suspicion of complicity in recent, wholesale thieving on the railways, appeared before the…

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Police Courts. Robberies From the Railways. a City Publican Committed for Receiving

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 11

Considerable time was occupied at the Newtown Court yesterday afternoon, before Captain Fisher, S.M., when a charge of stealing whisky, schnapps, rum, and…

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Extensive Railway Robberies. Accused at the parramatta court.Two men Convicled

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 3

Alexander M[?]lland and john yates. two respectable looking men were on monday last, charged with having on the 2[?]th nil[?]o, a[?]euabout 10 Has tobacco, 6 bot[?]es gin 6 bortles…

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Our Special Cables Revolution in Hawaii. a Royalist Outbreak. a Fight with Police and Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday. News has been received of a serious outbreak Hawaii. The Royalist parly revolted against…

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Special Cables. From the Herald's London Correspondents. Plot to Murder the German Emperor. a Warning Received by the Chancellor. Malcontent Workmen at the Government Gun Factory. London, Jan. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 9

Prince Hohenlohe, the German Chancellor, has received an anonymous letter containing a warning that the malcontent workmen in the Government gun factory…

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Life in London and Thereabout. Chronicled by Henry W. Lucy. Mr. Gladstone's Leisure Time.—police Protection for Ministers.—mr. Louis Stevens0n.—mr. Cecil Rhodes. Westminster, Dec. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 4

It is characteristic of Mr. Gladstone that whenever he turns hiss face to the wall, so as to shut out sounds and signs of politics, he takes to theology. When, 20 years ago next month, he…

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Ryde Licensing Court. Saturday, January 19. (BEFORE Mr. J. N. Brooks, P. M., and Mr. C. E. Jeannerot, L.m.) Conditional License for Thornleigh

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 6

Louis Freidenrcich, of Trade-street, New town, Kingston. applied for a conditional publican's license for premises to be erected at Thornleigh…

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Police Courts

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 January 1895 · page 7

Malicious Injury to Property.—At the Central Police Court yesterday, Kato Gardiner, 47, was charged with maliciously injuring six panes of glass, valued at 5s 6d,…

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Alleged Criminal Assault at North Sydney. The Accused Remanded

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 January 1895 · page 5

Constable HEAL of the North Shore Police arrested a young man named Richard Marum, alias Arthur Richard Malcolm, 24 years of age, at North Sydney…

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Central Police Court. To-day's Cases

Evening News · Monday 28 January 1895 · page 6

Frank Frederick Carpenter, a lad about 11 years of age, was charged with being found wandering in the streets without lawful occupation. His mother was in…

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