North Sydney Police Court
At the North Sydney court this morning J. G. Young, alias Reginald Ward, a school teacher, was charged with having endeavoured by means of a…
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Chamber Magistrate
Mr. F. G. Adrian, clerk of petty sessions, who a few days ago was gazetted as chamber magistrate for Newcastle district, was to-day sworn in by Mr. James Mair, S.M. The appointment has been…
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Peter Bricker, a middle-aged man, was charged at the Sessions today with the commission of a criminal assault upon a child six years of age. The…
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Yesterday, at the local Police Court, John Brown Stewart, who described himself as an accountant, was charged with stealing a cross-out saw, the property of his neighbour, Mrs…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The woman Caroline Snell, charged with the murder of her stepmother, Catherine Leyfield, at Rosebrook, has been further remanded for a week…
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A sensational development has taken place in connection with the murder of the old woman named Lyfield, at Rosebrook, near Port Fairy (Vic.), some time ago. Mre. Snell, daughter of the accused…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →The Rosebrook (Vic.) Murder
During the past few days there have been some very painful developments in connection with the tragedy at Rosebrook, in the Warrnambool district, Victoria, a daughter-in-law having confessed to…
Continued on Trove, page 363 →Penrith Police Court. Monday. Before Mr. J, K. Cleeve, P. M
George Patterson was charged with stealing from a bedroom of the Royal Hotel, Springwood, the property of Samuel Brown, on the 6th proximo, one £1 note,…
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At the Newtown Court, today, before Mr. Isaacs, S.M., Lawrence Reaves, for bathing in sight of Marrickville-street, Marrickville, between 6 a.m. and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Quarter Sessions. (Continued from yesterday's First Edition.) ASSAULT
A foreigner named Peter Bricker was found guilty on a charge of having at Mosman on January 20 assaulted a child 6 years of age. He was remanded for sentence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Attempted Suicide. Seventh Class Prisoners. at Parramatta Gaol
Yesterday (Friday) morning a young prisoner serving a sentence at Parramatta Gaol and confined in loneliness and dreariness for 23 hours out of the 24 (—as per the Seventh…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Courts. Assaulting Constables
In the Charge Division of the Water Police Court yesterday, Dunean [?] Gregor, 43, was fined £5, with an alternative of two months imprisonment, for ass[?]alting Constable L[?]lie whdst in the execution of…
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This Court, which was opened on Wednesday, by His Honor, Judge Backhouse, completed all its business in the forenoon, a very fair proportion of the cases being disposed of out…
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The Central Criminal Court will be opened at 10 a.m. on Monday. Mr. Garland will be Crown prosecutor. The list of cases is:—Myra Heaven, manslaughter;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Parramatta Police Court. (Before Messrs. B. Harper and G. Coates, J.'sP. "Sailor" Harvey Fined
John Harvey, a well-known local labourer usually referred to among his pals by the sobriquet of "Sailor," was charged with using obscene language. He pleaded not guilty, but…
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James Shannon (27), a laborer, was charged, the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. Johnson, S.M., with stealing a saddle, value £2, the property of Archibald Nicholson, a general dealer, residing at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Foreign. the Papal Court
His Holiness Pope Leo XIII., Bishop of Home and Vicar of Christ, successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An Editor Charged with Libel. Committed for Trial on Light Bail
A charge of wilfully and maliciously writing and publishing in the newspaper "Truth" a false, scandalous, malicious, and defamatory libel with reference to Mr. Freeman Kitchen was preferred against John…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Moree Land Court. Moree
A peculiar case, the first of the kind, occurred at tho land board to-day. G. A. Eckford applied for land originally reserved from sale pending the determination of the railway route. The reserve was…
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