Law Report. Supreme Court.—thursday, February 25. In Banco.—(Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice STEPHEN, and Mr. Justice OWEN.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1897 · page 3
M'MA[?]ON V. BREWER AND OTHERS (PART HEARD.) The Attorney-General (Mr J. H. Want, Q.C.) and Mr. Langer Owen, instructed by Messrs. Allen, Allen, and Hemsley, appeared for the appellant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Massacre in New Guinea. Details of the Murders. Attack by Natives on the Police. the Superintendent Speared Through the Heart. Miners Killed on a Raft
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 February 1897 · page 5
COOKTOWN, Thursday. -- The schooner Curlew arrived from Woodlarlt Island via Samarai to-day, with 21 passengers from Woodlark and two Mambare miners. She brings the following…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 14
At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Isaacs, S.M., Edward Jones (28), on remand, was charged with unlawfully assaulting Michael Louis Laillard, a carrier, residing in Raglan-street, Manly, it was stated that the…
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Evening News · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 5
Mr. M. S. Love, D.S.M., presided. Arthur Johnstone, 32, shearer, charged with vagrancy, was convicted and sentenced to two months' hard labor…
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Evening News · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 5
Mr. Whittingdale Johnson, S.M., presided. George Chapman, 21, clerk, was charged with having stolen a pair of trousers, of the value of 3s 11 d, from the drapery establishment of Henry…
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The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 6
George Flood who was discharged from custody on Wednesday, on the charge of stealing a watch and chain, was after his previous remand on Monday, then rearrested…
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The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 6
Daniel Kelly, a middle-aged Irishman, with a face that was adorned with gravel-rash, and a head that seemed to have swelled through saturation, was charged on Monday at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Central Police Court. To-day's Cases
Evening News · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 4
Mr. C. Delohery, S.M., presided. Emile Theopile Danglade, 8, whose father is blind and whose mother said that she could not control him, was sent on board the Sobraon…
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Nepean Times · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 7
At the Penrith Police Court on Tuesday, before Messrs. J. K. Cleeve, P.M., J. D. Single, M, Long, and F, D. Woodriff, Js.P., John Beacroft was charged, on the…
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The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 6
The long-deferred prosecution, in which a man was charged with stealing his own watch (which he had pawned and which was afterwards re-pawned) from the last person who…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 14
At the North Sydney Court yesterday, Joseph Pearson, on remand from the Water Police Court, was charged before Mr. W. M. Macfarlane. D.S.M., with stealing a sovereign from Mrs. Penelope M'Carthy, on the 24th…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 14
Mary Farrell, a married woman living at Concord, was the prosecutrix in a case of assault preferred against a young man named Edward Mealey, at the Newtown Court yesterday. The complainant, for whom Mr. J. W…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →English Convicts. Breaks from Gaol
The Australian Star · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 8
Four convicts made a dash for liberty at Christmastime-- three from Dartmoor and one from Parkhurst, in the Isle of Wight. In the latter case the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 11
ADELAIDE, Friday.—The trial of Andrew Drummond, charged with the murder of John King, a railway guard, at the Semaphore on January 25, was resumed in the Criminal Court. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sentenced for Bigamy. Appeal Against the Conviction
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 42
The case of Regina v. John Harrie, which was reserved by Judge Docker for the consideration of the Full Court, came on for argument on Feb. 19. The prisoner was tried at the Wellington sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Penrith Police Court. SATURDAY. (Before Mr. W. C. Fulton, J.P.)
Nepean Times · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 6
Sarah Graham, drunk on the Great western Road, St, Marys, was fined 2s 6d, or 24 hours, Fine paid…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 9
At the conclusion of a case against certain members of the Burwood police at the Newtown Court on Monday, Mr. Johnson, S.M., remarked that it would be a good thing if some new blood…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 468
The following sequestrations have been made during the past week:— Michael Connors, Macleay River, farmer. Mr. L. T. Lloyd, official assignee…
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The Australian Star · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 2
At the Newtown Court yesterday, before Mr. Whittingdale Johnson, S.M., for cruelly illtreating horses Edward Johnson and George Mayhen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"White Spirit for Gaol Patients." to the Editor
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 11
Sir,—The able letter of Dr. Hodgson, coming after your strong leader upon, the above subject, is a valuable contribution to the question, and will exert an important Influence upon the public…
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