Western Australia. Murder at Kimberley. Perth
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1897 · page 5
At Cygnet Bay, Kimberley, on Boxing Day, a number of Manila men and Malays quarrelled. The Manilas attacked a Malay, inflicted six knife wounds, and drove a crow bar through his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Courts. Assaulting a Wife
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1897 · page 3
John Casey, 44, labourer, for assaulting his wife by beating her about the head was sentenced to three months imprisonment by Mr. Isaacs, S.M., at the Water Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victoria. Insolvency Court Returns. Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1897 · page 5
A return respecting the business done in the Insolvency Court during last year, prepared by the clerks in the Insolvency Court, shows that 324 estates were sequestrated, an against 308 in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Law Notices. Supreme Court.—friday, January 8
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1897 · page 3
In Equity.—Before the Deputy-Registrar.—At 10.30 a.m.: Re will of A. S. Smith, to tax costs. At 11 a.m.: Moore v. Willis, to tax costs (all day appointment). Prothonotary's Office.—Before the Chief Clerk:Melville…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Courts. Suppression of Betting. Action by the Armidale Police
Evening News · Friday 8 January 1897 · page 5
ARMIDALE, Friday.—W. E. Forsyth was to-day charged at the police court with betting at the Armidale racecourse on Boxing Day. The case was postponed for a month, pending the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Law Report. Supreme Court.—thursday, January 7. In Chambers.—(Before Mr. Justice Simpson.) Earp Gillam and Company V. Whitelaw (C. Yarnederg, Garnishee)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1897 · page 3
Mr. Ralston, instructed by Messrs. [?]ly and Russell, appeared for the plaintiffs, and moved for a writ of foreign attachment in regard to certain property in the hands of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court Statistics
The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 11
During the rev ending December 31st the Ryde Police Court dealt with the following cases:—Charges against persons arrested by the police, 183; summons cases initiated…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newtown Police Court
Evening News · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 5
Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., presided. Eva Green, 18, servant, was charged with having stolen two £1 bank notes, the property of Robert Cheeseman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Central Police Court Returns
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 9
The annual returns of the Central Police Court, which have just been compiled, show that the number of arrests, exclusive of those under the Licensing Act, amount to 11,895, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Horse Stealing
The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 3
A young man named George Davey, a resident of Wetherill Park was arrested last week on several cases of horse-stealing. Some of the thefts are said to have been really…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Licensing Magistrate
The Australian Star · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 6
Alderman Fred Penny, who since the death of Mr. Joseph Graham, L.M., three years ago, has occupied a seat on the Metropolitan Licensing bench, has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Larrikinism at Drummoyne. Police Court Proceedings
The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 11
Considerable excitement was occasioned in the ordinarily quiet suburb of Drummoyne on Sunday afternoon last by a gang of larrikins, who endeavoured, and partially succeeded, in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Water Police Court. To-day's Cases
Evening News · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 5
Mr. F. S. Isaacs, S.M., presided in the charge division. Walter Barr, 18, printer, charged with assaulting, in company with others, Willie Gregor, and robbing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Theft of Tobacco
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 14
John Jamieson (29), a carter, and Thomas Flynn (32), a dealer, were charged yesterday, at the Central Court, with stealing two caddies of tobacco, value £10, from the Redfern railway premises. Evidence for the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Theft by a Servant Girl
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 14
Eva Green (18), a servant girl, was charged at the Newtown Court yesterday with having stolen two £1 netes from her employer, Robert Cheeseman, of 47 O'Connell-street, Newtown, on the 5th January. The…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Alleged Theft From the Person
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 14
John King, alias Addison, was charged, at the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. Edwards, S.M., with stealing, in company, a purse, containing about 18s, from the person of Mrs. Forsyth, residing in Nelson-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Penrith Police Court. MONDAY, (Before Mr. J. K. Cleeve, P.M.)
Nepean Times · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 6
John Stengeawson, drunk in High-Street, was fined 2s 6d or2 4 hours lock-up. Same for maliciously damaging a quart pot, the property of New South Wales Government,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Theft of a Horse and Buggy
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 15
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…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Assault on a Conductor. Heavy Fine Imposed
The Australian Star · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 2
At the North Sydney Police Court yesterday a man, Arthur E. Slovens, was charged with having on Sunday night last assaulted a tram conductor named…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bankruptcy Court
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 100
The following sequestrations have been made during the past week :— Henry Kempton Pwyford, of Bingara, labourer. Mr. W. H. Palmer, official assignee…
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