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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1899

7,595 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 250

A Push Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Three young men named Laurence Donnelly, Joseph Mullen, and John Hunter were placed on trial at the Criminal Court to-day on a charge of robbery in…

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Charge of Stealing Gloves

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 9

George Joyce, a man of 55 years of age, appeared at the Water Police Court to-day on a charge of stealing 40 pairs of kid gloves, value £6 10s, the property of James M'Dowel…

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Fraudulent Appropriation and Stealing

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 9

Josephine Hoare, alias West, alias Fraser, who is at present undergoing sentences for various offences, appeared before Mr. Smithers, S.M., at the Newtown Police Court…

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Liverpool Police Court. Tuesday, Jan. 31, 1899. (Before Messrs. C. A. Scrivener and Chapman, J'sP.) ASSAULT

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 8

JAMES Conway pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaulting Edward Elworthy, on Sunday, 29th January. Constable McLean, on oath, stated: At 9.30 a.m…

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A Month for Theft

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 9

Alice Chapman, alias Annie Chapman, alias Emma Williams, aged 32, was brought before Mr. F. S. Isaacs, S.M., at the Water Police Court, to-day, on a charge of stealing one…

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Theft of a Gold Watch

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 11

John Tighe (29), a French polisher, was charged at the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. Edwards, S.M., with stealing a gold watch, valued at £25, the property of Alexander M'Gahey, on the 27th January last…

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Police Courts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 12

Trespassing on the Railway Premises.—At the Newtown Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., Robert Davies, inspector on the railways, proceeded against George Spence on a…

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The Neutral Bay Raid. How It Was Made. the Police Court Proceedings

Evening News · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 3

The details in connection with the police raid on Peel's Baths, Neutral Bay, on the evening of Anniversary Day, were fully explained yesterday at the North Sydney Police Court, before Mr. C…

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Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 296

The following voluntary sequestrations were filed:— Albert Staines Manders, of Roslyn-street, Darlinghurst, commercial traveller. Mr. L. T. Lloyd,…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 12

The business of this court yesterday was confined mainly to the hearing of ca. sa. applications, and no matters of public interest were dealt with,…

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Divorce Court

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 9

Before Mr. Acting-Justice O'Connnor,in Divorce to-day, the decree nisi in the case of Julia Morrisey v. Patrick Morrlsey was made absolute, and the marriage dissolved…

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Probate Court

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 9

Probate was granted to-day by Acting Justice O'Connor in the wills of Eliza Crawford Baxter, Ethel Chariotte Pedley, Thos. Gormly, Donald M'Lennan, and John…

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Parramatta Police Court. Wednesday, February 1. (Before Mr. T. E. MacNevin,P.M.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 7

Sarah Gale, charged with being drunk in Church-street, pleaded not guilty. Constable Arthur Buchanan deposed that he saw the defendant in Church-street, about…

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Court of Review

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 14

Before his Honor Judge Murray, in No. 2 District Court. -- At 10.30 a.m.: Appeal against land tax assessment James Watson and another (part heard)…

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A Transvaal Tragedy. Murder on a Goldfield

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 9

LONDON, Friday. -- News has been received from the Transvaal of a foul murder near Johannesburg, the victim being a man named Elliott, employed in a responsible…

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Bankruptcy Court. Voluntary Sequestration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 14
Also in The Daily Telegraph, Australian Town and Country Journal

Charles Anderson, of Pyrmont, master mariner. Mr. L.T. Lloyd, official aseiguce…

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Penrith Police Court. TUESDAY. Before Messrs A Colless, W C Fulton, and T R Smith, J's.P

Nepean Times · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 6

Henry Cowie, who just after midnight rang Dr Dundas up and created a disturbance at his door when the doctor came down, and was "run in" by the doctor and his man, pleaded guilty to a charge…

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The Gatton Murder. Abandoning the Present Theory. BRISBANE

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 8

It is generally believed that the police will shortly abandon their present theory as to the perpetration of the Gatton murder, and work on another theory which has been…

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