The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 4 Feb 1905 1
LAW NOTICES.
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Monday, February 6.
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QUARTER SESSIONS LIST.
The Sydney Quarter Sessions begin at Darlinghurst Court-house on Monday, there being 125 cases set down for trial, as follows:—John Smith and Robert Christie, stealing in a dwelling; William James Drewett and Gilbert Clarke, assault and robbery; Walter Henry Liston, assault; Blanche Lawton, stealing; Thomas J Gribben, embezzlement; Joseph Strong, assault and robbery; William Henry Lane, stealing; Frederick Wright and William Wright, stealing; William Jacobs, assault and robbery; Margaret White and William Wright, stealing; Charles Grant, bigamy; Joseph Allerton, assault; Kerin P O’D O’Toole, embezzlement; Louisa Moroney, false pretences; George Havord, stealing, and stealing in a dwelling; Elizabeth Smith, breach of the Children’s Protection Act ; Addie Johnson, stealing; Bridget Mahoney, breaking and entering; Arthur Diver Tuck, Claude Harold Begg, and Oscar Emanuel Pallett, conspiracy to defraud; Frank Murray, assault and robbery; Michael Temple, malicious injury to property; Frank Mundy, housebreaking (5); Carl Miller, false pretences; Victor Prillvitz, assault; Nellie maxwell, stealing in a dwelling; Isaac Parkes, perjury; Sydney Parkes, perjury; Percy Freeman, breaking and entering; Francis Reseigh Martin, found by night, etc; William Crozier and Johanna Reinhard, stealing; Francis Harden, embezzlement; John Tillett, forgery; Frederick Hobbs, maliciously wounding; Thomas Ronan, James Hanlan, and Thomas Ephraim, attempting to steal from the person; Lily Kermode, stealing; William Plummer, stealing a parrot; James Lennon and Richard Bennett, stealing; Daniel O’Dea, stealing in a dwelling; Henry Douglas and John Cumins, assault and robbery; Patrick Hickey and Joseph Martin, assault and robbery; Michael Baxter, housebreaking and stealing; Jessie Nicholls, inflicting injury to property; Edwin Allen Elliott, larceny; James S Clifford, false pretences; George Rawling, forgery; Mary Young, stealing; George Day, housebreaking; Kenrick Hampson, stealing from a vessel in port; Daniel O’Dea, false pretences; Alfred Smith, stealing (two charges); William Lamon and James Hammond, assault with intent to rob; Luin Lip, having counterfeit coins in his possession; Alfred Embry, Herbert Peters, and Charles Parker, forgery, etc; James Bernard Gaffney, Frank Connor, James Henry Connor, and Harry Thomas, maliciously wounding; Joseph Sherer and Harry Jones, shopbreaking; George Day, stealing; Milford Burgess, housebreaking; Carl Miller, false pretences; Arthur Bradford, stealing; Mary Telfor, inflicting grievous bodily harm; Augustus Stan, maliciously wounding; George Fuller, assault; Leslie Jones and Albert Felton, stealing in a dwelling; John Galpen, inflicting grievous bodily harm; Ettie Dawson, stealing in a dwelling; Andrew Keain, assault and robbery; Milford Burgess, stealing in a dwelling; John Byrnes, arson; Carl Miller, false pretences; Augustus Robey, horse stealing; Vernon A Strange, John J Strange, Charles W Strange, inflicting grievous bodily harm; John Proctor and Joseph White, assaulting a constable;
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The Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 16 Feb 1905 2
LAW NOTICES.
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Thursday, February 16.
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SYDNEY QUARTER SESSIONS.
Joseph Allerton, assault; John Anderson , inflicting grievous bodily harm; Walter Henry Liston, assault; Henrietta Rushbrook, breach Children’s Protection Act ; William Brunt, assault; William Lamon and James Hammond, assault with intent to rob.
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The Daily Telegraph, Fri 17 Feb 1905 3
METROPOLITAN QUARTER SESSIONS.
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(Before Judge Backhouse and juries.)
Mr Herbert Harris prosecuted for the Crown.
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ACQUITTED.
Joseph Allerton, a young man of respectable appearance, who was charged with [indecently] assaulting a newsboy named Alfred Polglase at Glebe, on November 30 last, pleaded not guilty. He was defended by Mr JC Gannon. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty without leaving the box, and the accused, who had been given an excellent character by several well-known citizens, was discharged.
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The Sydney Morning Herald, Fri 17 Feb 1905 4
METROPOLITAN QUARTER SESSIONS.
(Before Judge Backhouse and juries.)
Mr Herbert Harris was Crown Prosecutor.
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ACQUITTED.
Joseph Allerton, 30, pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaulting Alfred Polglase, a newsboy, on November 30, at the Glebe. Mr JC Gannon, instructed by Mr C Bull, appeared for accused. The defence was a complete denial of the alleged charge. Aldermen T[homas] Nosworthy and PC Lucas, the Rev W Charlton, and other prominent Glebe residents bore witness to the accused’s excellent character. Without leaving the box the jury acquitted Allerton, who was discharged.
1 The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 4 Feb 1905, p. 8. Emphasis added.
2 The Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 16 Feb 1905, p. 7. Emphasis added.
3 The Daily Telegraph, Fri 17 Feb 1905, p. 8.
4 The Sydney Morning Herald, Fri 17 Feb 1905, p. 4. Emphasis added.