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Courts & crime, 1897

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The Balmain Court. Alleged Assault and Robbery

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 5

Mr. C. Delohery, S.M., was on the bench this morning at Balmain. Charles M'Kew was charged with being drunk and disorderly in…

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Water Police Court. Annual Returns

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 4

The annual returns, summarising, the proceedings at the Water Police Court during the past year, compared with the figures for 1895, show that the number of convictions for drunkenness…

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Water Police Court. To-day's Cases

Evening News · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 6

Mr. Isaacs, S.M., presided in the charge division. Samuel Sheridan, alias Daniels, 19, charged, on remand, with maliciously wounding one Francis Bishop, was further remanded for eight days, owing…

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Central Police Court. To-day's Cases

Evening News · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 6

Mr. F. W. Edwards, S.M., presided. Ester LofaJlise, 32, was fined 20s for drunkenness, and 20s or twenty-one days for assaulting Mary-Stewart…

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Charge of Theft

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 3

At the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. Elwards, S.M., Henry Thompson (22) was charged, in company, with stealing the sum of 12s 6d from Patrick Fahey, a man whom he met in a casual way in Hyde Park. The…

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Convicted for Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 3

Alexander Levina (29). laborer, was charged before Mr. Edward, S.M., at the Central Court yesterday, with assaulting Constables John Minchan and William Taylor. Accused was, it was stated, being arrested on…

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Broken Hill Assault Case

Evening News · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 5

BROKEN HILL, Monday.—The Milparinka police have arrested Two men named Kitto and White on a charge of being concerned in the recent assault on a (Chinese hawker. Three arrests have…

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Charges of Stealing. West Maitland

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 4

Two men, Archibald Cass and Robert Therloway, were committed for trial on charges of horse stealing and larceny of a buggy, at the West Mattland Police…

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Alleged Theft of a Horse und Buggy

Evening News · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 5

WEST MAITLAND, Monday.—The two men, Robert Thirloway and Archibald Edward Cass, who took a horse and buggy from the front of Wolfe, Prentice, and Company's establishment…

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Suspected Murder of a Family

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 6

Andrew J. Spute has been arrested in Denver, charged with the murder of his wife and five children. On Sunday, October 25, Spute, who runs a small suburban grocery, took his family…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 3
Also in The Australian Star

At the weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court yesterday Mr. Edwards, S.M., and Mr. Penny, L.M., presided. Thirty-seven hawkers' licenses were granted. The application for the transfer of the…

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Central Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 3

The usual weekly sitting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday, the bench being occupied by Messrs. Edwards, S.M., and Penny, L.M. No business of importance was transacted. A number of billiard…

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Police Courts. Committed for Trial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 3

At the Central Police Court yesterday Benjamin Dufton and James Dyson were committed for trial by Mr. Edwards, S.M., at the Quarter Sessions Court, on a charge of assault. Bail was refused…

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The Courts. As It Was in the Beginning! Forbidden Fruit. the Boy and the Bobby. the Accused in Court. Twenty-one Days' Gaol

Evening News · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 6

A boy named George Adams, 15, is at present in custody on charges of assault, and being unlawfully on premises at Ravensworth, Forbes and Woolloomooloo streets. Yesterday a posse of police from…

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Police Courts. a Long-standing Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 3

At the Newtown Court yesterday, before Mr, G. H. Smithers, S.M., Frederick Nelson (18) was charged with having unlawfully assaulted another youth named Charles Fearless, at Marrickville, on the 23rd October,…

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Up a Tree. In Woolloomooloo. A Boy Defies the Police. Violent Assault-On a Civilian-He Opens Fire-On the Force-And Maintains a Siege-For Nine Hours

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 5

It is many a year since the police of any quarter of the city have been as daringly defied as they were yesterday afternoon and night by Arthur Adams,…

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(Copy.) "Water Police Office, Sydney, "21st May. 1892

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 2

"Sir,--In accordance with the request of the Hon. the Minister for Justice of 16492, with reference to suppression of larrikinism, I have the honor to report individually…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court.—tuesday, January 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 3

In Equity.—Before the Deputy Registrar.—At 11 a.m.: Re will of J. Hore, deceased and Settled Estate Act, to settle minutes of order. At 11.15 a.m.: Re Mort, deceased, and Settled Estates Act, to settle minutes of…

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The Judicial Bench. the Court of Appeal

Evening News · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 6

LONDON, January 4.—The Right Hon. Sir Edward Ebenezer Kay, one of the Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal, has resigned. He will be succeeded by the Hon. Sir Joseph…

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