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Courts & crime, 1897

7,781 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 250

The Warrnamboool Murder. Body of the Victim Exhumed

Evening News · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-The body of Mrs. Lyfield, the victim of the Warrnambool murder, was exhumed yesterday afternoon. Drs. Fleetwood, Miller, and Scott were present on behalf of the…

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Ryde Electorate News. Ryde. Police Court. Wednesday, January 27. (Before G. M. Pope, Esq., J.p.) Illegal Possession

The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 2

Inkerman Cowan (18), James Abercrombie (18), Thomas Gorman (14), and Michael Callanan (11), four lads who were strangers in the districts, were charged with having been, at…

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Police Courts. Embezzlement by a Canvasser

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 14

A canvasser named John Milligan was charged, at the Central Charge Court yesterday, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., with embezzling the sum of £5, the property of G. C. Mullaby, soap manufacturer, carrying on…

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Parramatta Police Court Wednesday, February 3. (Before Mr. MacNevin, P.M., and Mr. K. Harpor, J. P.) Obscene Language

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 3

Thomas G. Audley was fined 10s, 4s 10 costs of Court, or 3 days, for using obscene language at Rock wood. Mrs. Britton or Audley, for being drunk and…

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Police News. Using an Expired Railway Ticket

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 11

[?] Davis, of the Railway Department, yesterday proceeded against Charles Mills, of Croydon, at the Newtown Court, on an information charging him with that he did, on the 20th January, whilst a…

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The Carew Murder. Sentence of Death Commuted. London, Feb. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 9

The sentence of death passed at Yokohama upon Mrs. Edith May Hollowell Carew for the murder by poisoning of her husband, Mr. W. R. Carew, late secretary…

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The Children's Corner. Court of Entertainers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 11

King Highandmighty, whose word is final, and whose sword is sharp, Queen Younghonrt. who loves everyone not grown up, and does exactly as she pleases…

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Ryde Police Court Tuesday, February 2. (Before Messrs, T.E. MacNevin, P.M., R. Hilliard and Henry Jordan, J's.P.) Obscene Language

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 12

Alfred Hamilton for using obscene language at the Brooklyn Hotel, Pent's Ferry, was fined 30s, 4s 10d costa, or 21 days. AABSCONDERS…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court.—saturday, February 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 10

Prothonotary's Office.—Before the Prothonetary: Tooth and Co. v. Blair, 10.30…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—friday, February 5. In Bankrup[?]. Voluntary Sequestrations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 7

Thomas Price Jones, of Galley Swamp, house painter. Mr. L.T.Lloyd, official assiguee. Joseph Packenham, of Camden, carpenter. Mr. N. F. Giblin, official assignee…

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Small Debts Court: TUESDAY. (Before Messrs. J. K. Cleeve, P.M., and J. D. Single, J.P.)

Nepean Times · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 4

Several cases were settled before the opening of the Court. Caleb Nash v. John Taylor. This was a case where defendant had paid the claim into Court that,…

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Another Mrs. Tanqueray. In the Divorce Court. A Strange Story. She Changed Hep Life --And Changed Back Again

The Australian Star · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 9

Sir Francis Jeune's court was crowded recently, when the proceedings in connection with Mr. Erskine Raymond's petition for divorce on the…

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Yesterday's Police News

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 February 1897 · page 5

A Job Let,-At the Central yesterday Wm. Cootes. 32, cook, and Peter Gay, 27, laborer, arrested by Detectives O'Sullivan and Hickey, were remanded till Wednesday on a…

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The Muggridge Murder. the True Version

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 February 1897 · page 10

IN our issue of January 20 (says the WESTERN ADVOCATE. Orange) we published a clipping form the SUNDAY TIMES giving an account of the apprehension of Jarvis…

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Wanted-better Police Protection

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 February 1897 · page 4

ANOTHER instance of the necessity of the police having some control over secondhand dealers is afforded this week by the announcement of the wholesale robbery of…

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POLICE V. Convicts. Fatal Fight at Pulpit Hill Between Police and Prisoners. on the Road to Sydney. a Repetition Of Rargo Brush.'

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1897 · page 4

Within a week of the arrest of the brotheroutlaws Clarke, and before the excitement of their fight with the police had died away, news came from the Blue Mountains that an…

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Burgess' Body Found. a Hole in the Skull-A Shallow Grave-A Third Verdict of Murder

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 February 1897 · page 9

What there is little reason to doubt the body of Burgess, the first to be made away with of the trio, was found on Burrawang Station, near Waroo, in the…

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POLICE v. People. an Artful Veteran, His Morning Tot The Value Of a Sergeant's Oath. What Became of Those Handcuffs

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1897 · page 7

THERE is doing duty in a city division a senior-constable who is allowed to still wear his sergeant's chevrons through long ago reduced in rauk, and for a very flagrant…

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The Mountain Murders. the Story Up to Date Strange Disappearances of Several Men Who Went Prospecting. Finding the Bodies of Weller, Preston, and Burgess. Verdicts of Murder. the Hunt for the Murderer. His Capture at San Francisco. a Full, Connected Account of the Remarkable Affair. Incidents of the Search

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 February 1897 · page 9

The various accounts which have been published from time to time concerning the Butler case have necessarily been of a disjointed character; therefore, so that our readers may have a full account of the…

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Bawdyism! Favored by the State. The Sydney Savings Bank As a Landlord. Dibbs' Dubious Doings. Respectability Ousted to Make Room for Uncleanness. Alleged Backstairs Influence. Too Strong for the Police. Who are Mrs. Godfrey's patrons? A Big Knight in a Breezy passion. The 'Lady Meets her Match

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1897 · page 5

AT the Water Police Court (Summons Division), before Mr. Whittingdale Johnson, S. M., on Wednesday, January 27, Walter C. Jones, as agent for the trustees of the…

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