Below also see: John Kuhn, 1895

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, Tue 24 Jun 1890 1

LATEST
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
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(FROM GREVILLE'S COMPANY.)
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SYDNEY.

Monday, recd 7.5 pm.

…
    At the police court to-day, John Kuhn, 19, a labourer, native of New South Wales, and Too [sic] Sang, 35, a Chinese gardener, were charged with having committed an abominable offence at Cameron-street, Paddington. Both prisoners were committed for trial.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue 24 Jun 1890 2

POLICE.
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    Mr C Delohery, DSM, presided at the Central Police Court yesterday.
…
    Mr Addison, SM, presided in the Charge Division of the Water Police Court.
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    John Kuhlin [sic] and Foo Sing [sic] were committed for trial to the Quarter Sessions on a charge of having committed an offence against the law.

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The Daily Telegraph, Sat 16 Aug 1890 3

QUARTER SESSIONS.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 15.
(Before Judge McFarland.)

    Mr WL Merewether prosecuted for the Crown.

UNNATURAL OFFENCE.

    In the case of John Kuhn and Foo Sang, charged with an unnatural offence, the jury, after being locked up all night, returned into court with a verdict of guilty, coupled with a strong recommendation to mercy.

    Both accused were sent to gaol for three years, Kuhn being granted leave to petition at the end of 12 months and Foo Sang at the end of two years.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 16 Aug 1890 4

METROPOLITAN QUARTER SESSIONS.
FRIDAY.
(Before his Honor Judge McFarland.)

AN ILLEGAL ACT.

    The jury who had been locked up all night in connection with the charge brought against Foo Sang and John Kuhn came into court to deliver their verdict. The jury found a verdict of guilty against both prisoners, with a strong recommendation to mercy in so far as the European prisoner was concerned on account of his youth, to whom the jury asked his Honor to award such punishment only as would afford him an opportunity of amending his future life; and a like recommendation in the case of the Chinese prisoner, on account of the excellent character he had previously borne, as testified by the many respectable witnesses called for the purpose.

    HIS HONOR, in delivering sentence, stated that for the offence for which the prisoners were convicted the penalty was penal servitude for life or not less than five years. There was, however, another enactment by which he might, if concurring with the grounds of the recommendation of the jury, impose a less penalty, and he would avail himself of that provision. In that case, however, the minimum penalty was three years’ penal servitude, and he declared that, having regard to the recommendation of the jury, he should meet the ends of justice by sentencing each of the prisoners to three years’ penal servitude. In the case of the European boy, however, he would give permission, at the end of 12 months, to petition the Executive for a remission, and the same privilege to the Chinaman at the end of two years.

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Foo Sang, Gaol photo sheet  5

SRNSW: NRS2138, [3/6052], Darlinghurst Gaol photographic description book, 1890, No. 4833, p. 91, R5103.


Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details

No. 4833

Date when Portrait was taken: 24-6-1890

Name: Foo Sang

Native place: China

Year of birth: 1842

Arrived       Ship: Tee Lee
in Colony }   Year:

Trade or occupation
previous to conviction  } Gardiner

Religion: Pagan

Education, degree of: Nil

Height: 5' 10"

Weight     On committal: 152
in lbs     } On discharge:

Colour of hair: Brown

Colour of eyes: Brown

Marks or special features: Scar on back of neck. Wears pigtail.

Where and when tried: Sydney Q.S.
15th August 1890

Offence: Buggery

Sentence: 3 years PS

Remarks: Convicted with John Kuhn

(No. of previous Portrait ... ) 

PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS
Where and When Offence. Sentence

 

 

 

 

Nil

 


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John Kuhn, Gaol photo sheet 6

SRNSW: NRS2138, [3/6052], Darlinghurst Gaol photographic description book, 1890, No. 4834, p. 92, R5103.


Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details

No. 4834

Date when Portrait was taken: 24-6-1890

Name: John Kuhn

Native place: BC Wollahra [sic]

Year of birth: 1871

Arrived       Ship:
in Colony }   Year:

Trade or occupation
previous to conviction  } Groom

Religion: Cath

Education, degree of: R & W

Height: 5' 4½"

Weight     On committal: 128
in lbs     } On discharge:

Colour of hair: Fair

Colour of eyes: Grey

Marks or special features: Scar on bridge of nose

Where and when tried: Sydney Q.S.
15 August 1890

Offence: Buggery

Sentence: 3 years P.S.

Remarks: Convicted with Foo Sang

(No. of previous Portrait ... ) 

PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS
Where and When Offence. Sentence

 Sydney Q.S

 9

12 

1895 

Receiving

 

 

Nil

4 months & enter into his own recog[nisance] to be of good behaviour for 2 years

 

 

John Kuhn, 1895

The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed 27 Nov 1895 7

POLICE COURTS.
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STEALING MANHOLE GRATINGS FROM A SEWER.

    At the Redfern Police Court yesterday, before Mr Delohery, SM, Constable Bannan proceeded against John Kuhn, age 26, for having in company stolen four cast-iron gratings, of the value of £8, the property of the Water and Sewerage Board, at Alexandria, on or about the 15th August last. The evidence showed that the accused, along with two others who have already been convicted of the offence, stole the gratings from two manholes in the main sewer at Alexandria, and after breaking them up disposed of the as old iron. Accused was committed to take his trial at the next Court of Quarter Sessions, at Darlinghurst. Bail was allowed.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue 10 Dec 1895 8

QUARTER SESSIONS.—
MONDAY.
(Before his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge and
juries of 12.)

    Mr WL Merewether prosecuted for the Crown.
…

RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY.

    Two young men named Benjamin Howell and John Kuhn pleaded not guilty to a charge of having together stolen at Alexandria four gratings, the property of the Water and Sewerage Board. Mr Abigail appeared for Howell, and Mr Hamilton appeared for Kuhn. The gratings were stolen from the sewerage works in Alexandria, and the two accused, together with a man named Cranney, it was alleged by the Crown, had sold the gratings, broken into pieces, to an ironfounder in Newtown on the same day that they were stolen—15th August last. Cranney was arrested soon after, and received a sentence of six months in the police court for having stolen the articles. The defence was that Howell had merely assisted Cranney to carry the broken iron, which was in a bag, and that he did not know that it was stolen; and for Kuhn evidence was called to show that he was in bed when the robbery was alleged to have occurred. The jury found both the accused guilty of receiving, they were remanded for sentence.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 12 Dec 1895 9

QUARTER SESSIONS.—
WEDNESDAY.
(Before his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge and
juries of 12.)

    Mr RJ Browning prosecuted for the Crown.
…

SENTENCES.

    John Kuhn and Benjamin Howell, who had been found guilty of receiving, were brought forward for sentence. His Honor said that as it was the first time that either had been convicted of dishonesty he would pass a light sentence. They were each sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, on the expiration of that sentence to enter into their own recognisance of £40 to be of good behaviour for two years.

 

1     The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, Tue 24 Jun 1890, pp. 4, 5.

2     The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue 24 Jun 1890, p. 3.

3     The Daily Telegraph, Sat 16 Aug 1890, p. 6.

4     The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 16 Aug 1890, p. 13.

5     SRNSW: NRS2138, [3/6052], Darlinghurst Gaol photographic description book, 1890, No. 4833, p. 91, R5103.

6     SRNSW: NRS2138, [3/6052], Darlinghurst Gaol photographic description book, 1890, No. 4834, p. 92, R5103.

7     The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed 27 Nov 1895, p. 4.

8     The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue 10 Dec 1895, p. 3. Emphasis added.

9     The Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 12 Dec 1895, p. 7. Emphasis added.