Assault and Robberies
Several cases of assault and robbery have been reported to the authorities as having occurred on Saturday and Sunday. One of the instances referred to took place in Prince…
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Attempted Wife Murder
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--An attempt was made at noon on Saturday by a man named Edward Henry Sheen to murder his wife. Jane Gordon Sheen, in Malvern. Sheen, who had been in the…
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The Newtown police have vigovously prosocuted inquiries into the outrage which was committed upon the man Charles Edgar Clothier in Newtown on Friday night, and the story of the crime is now…
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At the Central this morning, before Mr. M. S. Love, D.S.M., a shearer named Donald Leonard (23) was fined 10s or 48 hours for being drunk and disorderly, and a further…
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Francis Silverstone, tanner, of Wellington. Mr. W. H. Palmer, official assignee…
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Edward Hy. Sheen, who recently returned from West Australia, it is stated, made an attempt this afternoon to murder his wife at Malvern. He has been drinking somewhat…
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Next week, in line City of Camden, near Phila-delphi[?], a young man named Eli Shaw, of good family and social connections, who was a few months ago about to marry a charming girl of…
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At the Newtown Court on Saturday, before Mr. F. W. Addison, S.M, John M'Mahon (40), laborer, was charged with having stolen a pair of trousers, value 2s 11d, from the shop of Mr. Marcus Clark, draper. King-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Law Notices. Supreme COURT.—Monday, February 7
Probate Jurisdiction, before the Registrar.—To proceed on accounts in the follwing estates:Alfred Humphries, Archibald Branxton, Edward Asheroft, Elizabeth Thomas. Prothonotary's Office.—Before the Chief Clert: In…
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Appeals against Land Tax Assessments (No. 2 District Court, Queen's-square).--At 10.15 a.m.: Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (C, Carlisle Taylor, public officer), part heard…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DISTRICT COURT.—Monday, February 7. (Before his Honor Judge Docker, in No. 1 Court, at 10 a.m.)
City assessment appeals. Causes: Barge v. Brown, Kingbury v. M'Gregor, Breach v. Woolf, Hardt v. Harris, Poole and another v. Bradley, Lark, Sons, and Co., Limited, v. Harris, South Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Far East. Murder of the German Sailor. the Assassin Beheaded. London, Feb. 4
The Chinaman who murdered the German sailor on duty at an outpost at, Kiao-chau, has been beheaded…
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The hearing of the appeal by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States against the assessment on their property in George-street, was continued this morning before…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court of REVEIW.—Monday, February 7. (Before his Honor Judge Murray.)
Appeals against-Land Tax Assessments, No. 2 District Court, Queen's-square, at 10.15 a. m.—Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, C. Carlisle Taylor, public officer (part heard)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Melbourne Sensation. (Some of the Following Items Appeared In our Late Editions of Saturday.) . . Attempted Murder and Suicide
MELBOURNE, Saturday.-A recent arrival from West Australia named Edward Henry Sheen, made a determined attempt shortly afternoon to-day to murder his wife, Jane Gordon…
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Sams time during Sunday night burglars visited the residence of MR. Frederick Campbell, Mary-street, Hunter's Hill, and appropriated jewellery and money to the value of £32. The night being…
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BROKEN HILL, Monday.—Mrs. Moyle, boardinghouse keeper, Chloride-street, reported to the police yesterday that about 2 o'clock on Sunday attorning an unknown man entered her house…
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A middle-aged cabman named John Gray was charged, at the Water Police Court yesterday, with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm upon Bartholomew Welby, a fellow cab-driver. On…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Actor and the Horse. Funny Experiences. Police Court Case
At the Paddington Police Court to-day, before Mr Whittingdale Johnson, S.M.., George Harper (on bail), 19, theatrical agent, was charged with cruelly illtreating a hor[?] by working it whilst…
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Thefts.—At the Central Police Court Mr. Love, D.S.M., yesterday sentenced Daniel M'Dermott, 41, to six months' imprisonment for stealing a bag of flour and a tin of kerosene, valued at 6s 6d,…
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