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Courts & crime, 1896

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Bankruptcy Court. Voluntary Sequestrations

The Australian Star · Friday 10 January 1896 · page 6

Boilby Porteus Pell Kemp, clerk of petty sessions, Armidale. Mr. Lloyd, official assignee. William Kohlbecker, late of Fairview,…

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The Murder of the Korean Queen. Extraordinary Royal Edict

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1896 · page 3

The Tokio correspondent of "The Times, writing on October is, says that the coup d'etat of October 8 in Seoul, was an indirect outcome of the long struggle…

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Police Courts. Alleged Forgery of Ferry Tickets

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1896 · page 3

At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Smithers S.M., Arthur Deacon, on remand, was charged that he did on the 19th December, 1895, offer, utter, and dispose of, and put off, 30…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—thursday, January 9. In Bankruptcy.—(Before Mr. Justice Cohen.) Petitions for Sequestrations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1896 · page 3

Edwin Philip Trueman and another v. John Henry George Wilesmith. On the motion of Mr. Horden, who appeared for the petitioning creditors, an order of sequestration was made against…

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Police Court Returns. NEWTOWN

Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The annual returns of business transacted at the Newtown Police Court during the year 1895 have been prepared by the clerk of petty sessions (Mr. Meyers, J.P.), and, when compared with…

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Penrith Police Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 3

Before the P.M. and Mr. J. D. Single, J.P. James Jackson, for being found drunk in High-street, was fined 2s 6d or 24 hours' lock-up…

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Water Police Court. To-day's Cases

Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 4

Mr. Johnson, S.M. presided. Alexander M'Dowell, a lad of 14, charged under the Industrial Schools Act with being found sleeping out in the open air…

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Charge of Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 11

John Chamberlain, a laborer, was presented at the Water Police Court yesterday on a charge of assaulting Elizabeth Christenson on the 8th inst., with intent to do grievous bodily…

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The Courts. Central Police Court. To-day's Cases

Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 4

Mr. G. W. F. Addison, S.M., presided at the charge court. Alfred Beasley, alias Thompson, 29, was remanded till Friday on a charge of assaulting…

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AUBURN. Tallow-stealing at Silverwater

The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 3

On Monday, at Parramatts Police Court, Frederick Manderson and William Cogger were charged with stealing on 1st January, two tins of tallow of the…

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Peculiar Assault. a Charge Reduced

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 3

John Chambertin was charged before Mr. Smithers, S.M at the Water Police Court yesterday with having inflicted gre[?] bodily harm upon Elizabeth Christenson. The…

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Wholesale child Murder

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 21

Under the heading of "The Massacre of the Innocents," the "Sun" (London) has been publishing a series of interviews with baby farmers and keepers of private lying-in houses. The interview…

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Western Australia. (From Our Correspondent.) Burglary at Esperance. Esperance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 9

A sensational burglary was perpetrated at midnight at the jeweller's shop of Councillor Collins, in Main-street. A bank clerk observed a man near the bank creeping under the building. He…

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Resisting the Police

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 11

John H. Fagan (54) was fined 40s or 14 days at the Newtown Police Court yesterday, for using obscene language in Erskineville Park. For inciting Pagan to resist Constable Prowse…

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Police Court. Tuesday, January 7. (Before Mr. F. V. Edwards, P.m.) Cruelty

The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 8

For ill-treating a horse at Gladesville on the 27th ultimo, by allowing it to be worked with a sore shoulder, in respect of which he pleaded guilty, John W. Upton was fined 20s, costs…

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Parramatta Police Court. Monday, January 6. (Before Mr. F. W. Edwards, P.M.)

The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 6

John Taylor, for drunkenness at Bookwood, on Saturday evening, was fined 5s; and for indecent conduct on the same occasion 20s. Edward Hunt, Abraham Kelly, and John…

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Ryde Police Court Tuesday, January 7. (Before Mr. F. W. Edwards, P.m.) Cruelty

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 6

John W. Upton, for causing a horse to be cruelly illtroated by working it with more shoulders at Gladesville on the 27th December, was fined 20a and coste, 9s, 2d, in fefault 7 days…

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Parramatta Police Court Saturday, January 4. (Before Mr. D. D. Honderson, J.p.) Drunks

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 8

Jas. Sinclair and Samuel Gill, first offenders, were fined 5s for drunkness, or the rising; and, as the court rose straight away, they were at once set at liberty…

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Newtown Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 7

At the Newtown Licensing Court yesterday, presided over by Mr. Delohery, S.M., auctioneers' licenses were granted to Richard Stanton, of Summer Hill; and Ernest E. Guille, of 335 King-street,…

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