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Courts & crime, 1899

7,595 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 250

Parramatta Quarter Sessions. (Before his Honor Judge Backhouse.) Cattle Stealing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 3

William Parker and Samuel Parker were charged with stealing, on December 19, at Fairfield, one ox, the property of Bridget Grace. The evideuce was to the effeet that the bullock, which was identified…

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A Divorced Couple Re-united. Charge of Stealing a Watch

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 7

At the Quarter Sessions today a middle-aged woman named Margaret Keliett was charged with the larceny, on December 29, 1898 of a watch and chain, the properly of…

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Water Licensing Court

Evening News · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 8
Also in The Australian Star

The usual weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court was held yesterday. Mr. Smithers. S.M., presided, and with him were Messrs. Wilshire, S.M., and Penny, L.M. Transfers of…

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Central Criminal Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 3

Case for To-day. Stuart Wilson Christopher Briggs, murder…

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Court of Review

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 3

A decision was given by bulge Murray in the appeal by the trustees of the estate of the late T. F. Josephson against the land tax assessment. In this case the commissioners assessed the land on which the Oxford Hotel…

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Criminal Court Sentence

Evening News · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 6

William James Armand M'Lenahan, a young man who pleaded guilty to three charges of haying embezzled small sams of money, the property of John M'Leod and another…

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Absconding From Hired Service. a State Girl Sent to Gaol

Evening News · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 2

GLEN INNES, Thursday.—At the police court yesterday a young girl named Theresa Turner, formerly an inmate of the Randwick institution, was charged with having absconded from the hired…

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Delaying Admittance to the Police

Evening News · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 3

In the summons division of the Water Police Count, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., Dorothy Saunders, wife of the licensee of the Wynyard Hotel, Clarence and Erskine streets, pleaded guilty to…

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Police Courts. a Government Employee

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 2

John Conway alias Connors (33) charged [?] vagrancy at the Newtown Court yesterday Constable Harper stated that the man made a camping ground of the University Park and favoured the companionship of…

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A Scrub in Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 2

There was a mild sensation at the close of the sitting of the Quarter Sessions at Parramatta yesterday. The jury bad just found two lads named Parker guilty of cattle stealing, with a recommendation to mercy on…

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Bankruptcy Court. Certificate Applications

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 7

Re John Ewing Serviss. This application was, at the instance of the official assignee, adjourned until March 8. Re William John Green. The Registrar…

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Parramatta Quarter Sessions. Wednesday, February 15. (Before his Honor Judge Backhouse.) CATTLE-STEALING

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 3

William Parker and Samuel Parker, two Hoys, resilient at Campbell's-hill Estate, Bankstown, were charged will stealing an ox, the property of Bridget Grace. A second count charged them with receiving. The ox had been…

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Burglary at Temora. (Some of the Following Items Appeared in our Late Editions of Yesterday.) Railway Station Entered

Evening News · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 3

TEMORA, Wednesday.—When Mr. Gazzard, rail way stationmaster, opened his office at 6 o'clock this morning, he found that it had been broken into since he left the previous night. Those who broke…

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Central Criminal COURT.(—)Thursday, February 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 3

Stuart Wilson Christopher Briggs, murder…

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Land Tax Appeals. Court of Review

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 5

The hearing of the appeals against the assessments of the Land Tax Commissioners was continued today, before Judge Murray, in the Court of Review. Mr. J. L. Campbell,…

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Sentences Passed. At the Criminal Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 5

At the Central Criminal Court this morning Mr. Justice Cohen passed sentence upon William James Armand M'Lenahan and James Edward Connell, who had pleaded…

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Murder of a Missionary. the Death of Mr. Fleming. a Cold-blooded Deed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 3

Additional details with regard to the murder of Mr. Fleming, a Sydney missionary, in China recently, were received by the Japan mail steamer Tokio Maru yesterday…

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Metropolitan Quarter Sessions. (Before Judge Gibson and juries.) Mr. W. L. Merewether was Crown Prosecutor. Alleged Assault and Robbery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 3

The jury in the case of Arthur Lamont, who was tried yesterday on a charge of having assaulted John Mackey and robbed bim of a watch and chain in Liverpool-street, city, came into court. They had…

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Petersham Tragedy. Briggs on Trial. At the Central Criminal Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 5

Stuart Wilson Christopher Briggs was placed on his trial, before Mr. Justice Cohen, at the Central Criminal Court this morning for the murder at Petersham, on December…

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