Stealing From a Child
At the Ashfield Police Court yesterday, before Mr .E. L. Maitland, D.S.M., a woman named Harriet Annie Miller was proceeded against on a charge of having stolen…
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Convicts Who Prefer Gaol
Good conduct in Swiss prisons usually entitles the inmates to tobacco, wine, books, and newspapers. In the model prison at Appenzell these luxuries are so appreciated that the local…
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LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- A number of documents relating to charges against Lieutenant U[?]mo of treason have been stolen from his counsel's rooms at a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Queen's Miniatures. Thieves Sentenced. London, Feb. 20
The two men who stole the Queen's miniatures from the studio of Mr. Carl Hentschel, at West Norwood, were to-day sentenced to 12 and 23 months'…
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Before his Honor, Judge Rogers, K.C.—At 10 a.m. Wilson v Fitzjohn, part heard; Harnett v Willis. Note.—The list will be called over punctually at 10 a.m…
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The Local Option Court, consisting of Judge Backhouse, Messrs. Smithers and Macfarlane. S.Ms., sat yesterday at Darlinghurst. Evidence was taken with regard to the licenses…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Liverpool Police Court. Wednesday, February 19). (Before Mr. J. R. Jamieson, P.m.) Filthy Premises
Jacob Lawson was charged with having allowed to accumulate on his premises matter from which an unwholesome smell arose. He pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parramatta Police Court. Wednesday, February 19. (Before Mr. E. L. Maitland, D.s.m.) Riotous Conduct
John Riley, for riotous conduct, was fined 10s, with costs 3s 6d, or seven days imprisonment. Frederick Stubbs, in a similar case…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Courts. Charge of Bigamy
At the Newtown Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Donaldson, S.M., Alfred John Parry, or Charles Alfred Parry, 42, canvasser, was charged with having on August 6, 1832, at Sydney, married Jane Ryan,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hornsby Small Debts Court
At a sitting of the Small Debts Court at Hornsby on Tuesday before Mr. E. L. Maitland, P.M. and Messrs. H. E. Jordan and J. R. Colls, J's.P., a verdict…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Penrith Police Court MONDAY. Before Mr Jamison, P.M.. Messrs Perking and Clissold, Js P. a Sunday Drunk
Annie Helme failed to appear to answer a charge of being illegally on certain licensed premises. Hugh Edmunds, her son-in-law appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Espionage. the Trial of Lieut Ullmo. Theft of Documents. London, Feb. 20
A number of documents relating to the charges of selling naval and military secrets to the Germans preferred against Lieut Ullmo, of the French torpedo-boat…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →In Gaol a Lot and Didn't Want to Go There Again
A Chinese cook,Jimmy Lee, 35, was charged at the Central Police Court yesterday with assaulting Elizabeth Irvine. Constable Wood stated that lie saw the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Port Arthur Surrender Stoessel Sentenced to Death. Czar Asked to Commute. London, Feb. 21
The Court Martial at St. Petersburg on Generals Stoessel, Fock, Rolss, and Smirnoff, on charges connected with the surrender of Port Arthur to the Japanese,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Local Option Court. Leichhardt Licences Reduced
The Local Option Court (Judge Backhouse, Mr. Smithers, S.M., and Mr. Macfarlane, S.M.) gave its decision yesterday in respect to the licensed premises in the electorate of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sedition in India Native Printers Sent to Gaol London, Friday, 2.45 p.m
The printers of two native newspapers in Calcutta have been sentenced, one to 12. months and the other to two years' imprisonment for having published seditious…
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The Police Court was crowded this morning when the American who ran amok with a revolver on Friday was to have appeared. The police believe his name to be Anderson,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Arbitration Court. Cold Storage Work and Wages
Mr. Beby appeared for the claimant union; and Mr. Broomfield, instructed by Mr. J. R. Baxter Bruce, appeared for the respondent in each of the cases by the Cold Storage…
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