Clerk of the Peace Registers 1

No. Prisoner. Offence. Date of committal.
 498  Edward Fay  Unnatural Offence  12th October 1893
Place of committal. Committed for trial at. When received. When sent. To whom sent.
 Taree  Taree  18 October 1893  28-11-1893  DCP Taree


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Evening News, Wed 6 Dec 1893 2

TAREE QUARTER SESSIONS.
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    TAREE, Wednesday.—Judge Coffey presided at the quarter sessions which were held here yesterday, and Mr Browning prosecuted for the Crown. When the judge had taken his seat he was congratulated on behalf of the bar and the solicitors, upon his elevation to the bench.

    Patrick Mooney, charged with perjury, alleged to have been committed before Judge Fitzhardinge at the last District Court, was found guilty of false swearing, with a strong recommendation to mercy, and was sentenced to 12 months in Darlinghurst Gaol.

    For committing an unnatural offence, [buggery on Frederick Evenden, aged 8 yrs and 4 mths],a man named Fahy [sic] was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.

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Edward Fay, Gaol photo sheet 3

SRNSW: NRS1998, [3/13071], Bathurst Gaol photographic description book, 1874-1930, No. 5805, p. 85, R5089.


Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details


No. 5805

Date when Portrait was taken: 12 December 1893

Name: Edward Fay

Native place: BC Sydney

Year of birth: 1848

Arrived       Ship: –
in Colony }   Year: –

Trade or occupation
previous to conviction  } Baker

Religion: R Catholic

Education, degree of: R&W

Height: 5' 4½"

Weight     On committal: 152
in lbs     } On discharge: 150

Colour of hair: Sandy to grey

Colour of eyes: Blue

Marks or special features: Arms brown & covered with white blotches. Top of right middle finger split. Bites his nails. Top joint of left third finger contracted. Optholomy [sic–sandy blight, trachoma] in eyes.  Scar on bridge of nose

Where and when tried: Taree Quarter Sessions
5 December 1893

Offence: Indecent assault on a male person.

Sentence: 2 years H.L. Darlinghurst Gaol

Remarks:

(No. of previous Portrait ... ) 

PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS
Where and When Offence. Sentence

 

  

 

 

Nil 

 

 

1     SRNSW: NRS849, [5/3083], Clerk of the peace registers of criminal depositions received, p. 163, R2761.

2     Evening News, (Sydney, NSW), Wed 6 Dec 1893, p. 3. Emphasis added.

3     SRNSW: NRS1998, [3/13071], Bathurst Gaol photographic description book, 1874-1930, No. 5805, p. 85, R5089.

 

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