The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 21 Sep 1878 1
POLICE.
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CENTRAL POLICE COURT.
FRIDAY.
(Before the Police Magistrate, with Messrs Jolly, Reading, and Josephson.)
Eighteen persons were fined for drunkenness.
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John Dobson, charged with having, yesterday afternoon, obscenely exposed himself in Hyde park, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour three months.
1 The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 21 Sep 1878, p. 6.