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Courts & crime, 1897

7,781 stories in Sydney's papers · page 58 of 250

Central Criminal Court. (Before Mr. Justice Simpson.) Charge of Perjury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 February 1897 · page 3

Aaron Abrahams pleaded not guilty to a charge of having committed perjury during the hearing of a case tried before the Quarter Session in August last. At the tried in question Joseph Samuel was arraigned…

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Land Appeal Court.—thursday. (Before Messrs, OLIVER, President, BRANDIS, and FREEMAN.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 February 1897 · page 3

The appeals of R. W. M'Laurin and R. Burns against the appraised value of the land comprised in their conditional purchases, Nos. 9O-65 and 93-75, Doniliquin, were dismissed. The land in each case…

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The Courts. Criminal Court. (Before His Honor Mr. Justice G. B. Simpson.) Charge of Manslaughter

Evening News · Friday 19 February 1897 · page 6

Myra Heaven was placed upon her trial to-day on a charge of having, at Camperdown, on November 12, 1896, feloniously slain Sarah Baker. A second count charged her with having performed an…

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What Is Abduction? Full Court Decision. Taking Away a Girl. Conviction of Arthur Davis Sustained--A Midnight Adventure

The Australian Star · Friday 19 February 1897 · page 5

The conviction of Arthur Davis for the alleged abduction of a girl under the age of 21, to wit, 15 years and 4 months, from the possession of her father…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—thursday, February 18. In Banco.—(Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice STEPHEN, and Mr. Justice Owen.) [?]Owman V. Bacon (Part Heard)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 February 1897 · page 3

Mr. Wise and Mr. J. L. Campbell, instructed by Messrs. Bowman and Mackenzie, appeared for the plaintiff, and moved to make absolute a rule nisi to set aside the verdict for the defendant, and for a…

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North Sydney Police Court

Evening News · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 5
Also in The Australian Star

Mr. Delohery, S.M., presided at North Sydney-Police Court yesterday. Mary Johnson, alias Phillips, 40 years of age, was charged with going about as a gatherer of…

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Central Police Court. To-day's Cases

Evening News · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 5

Mr. F. W. Edwards, S.M., presided. Kate Hart, 22, was fined £5 or three months fox using some very bad language in George-street last night…

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Water Police Court To-day's Cases

Evening News · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 5

Mr. Isaacs, S.M., presided. Daniel Welch, 31, seaman, for being absent without leave from his ship, the Hubbuck, was ordered to be imprisoned for seven days, with hard labor…

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Newcastle Police Court. Disobedient Seamen. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 6

At the police court this morning before Mr. Payten, S.M., Captain Quinn, of the ship Bank Hall, charged six of his seamen with combining to disobey…

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Governor of Goulburn Gaol

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 8

It was announced in an issue of the "Public Service Gazette" yesterday that Mr. Francis Edward Bloxham, secretary of the Labor and Industry branch, Public Instruction Department,…

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Newtown Police Court. Mr. Whittingdale Johnson, S.M, presided

Evening News · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 5

Michael Henetty, for cruelly ill-treating a horse by working it while suffering from sore shoulders and girth galls, in King-street, Newtown, on the 12th instant, was fined 10s, costs…

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The Warrnambool Murder

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 15

On Monday Henry Leyfield and his daughter, Caroline Snell, were placed on their trial at the criminal sessions, on a charge of the wilful murder of Catherine Leyfield, wife of the male…

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Charge of Cattle Stealing Hillston

The Australian Star · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 6

The Quarter Sessions opened yesterday before his Honor Judge Merewether. A charge of cattle stealing, in which father and two sons named…

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Charge of Assault Against a Policeman

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 13

Constable James Aiken, attached to the Newtown Station was brought before Mr. Whittingdale Johnson, at the local Court yesterday, on a charge of unlawfully assaulting James Prosser at Camperdown on…

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The Warrn[?]mbool Murder

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Rosebrook murder again occupied the attention of the Criminal Court yesterday, when Mrs. Snell, who was charged in conjunction with her father with…

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Penrith Police Court. MONDAY. Before Mr. J. K. Cleeve, P. M

Nepean Times · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 3

Maggie Nowlan, alias Jackson, a giddy creature, received one mouth in Parramatta Gaol on a charge of vagrancy…

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The German Police

Evening News · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 3

There is little possibility of independence in speech, or action. The police are always at your elbow; and woe to you if you do not carry out their injunctions to the letter. There has lately…

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Police Widows' Fund

Evening News · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 4

A committee meeting in connection with the Police Widows' Fund was held last night at the Newtown Police Station. Constable M. Duffy presided, and among those present were Senior-constables Ingram…

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Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 417

The following sequestrations have been made during the past week:— Sydney Charles Reilly, of Robert-street, Marrickville, builder. Mr. W. H. Palmer, official assignee…

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