In the case of Louisa Collins, lying under sentence of death for murdering her husband, the Governor received a petition yesterday afternoon from a deputation representing a meeting of women held in Sydney, and ...
Article : 1,442 wordsThe monthly meeting of the council of the Zoological Society of New South Wales was held yesterday afternoon, at the society's grounds, Moore Park. The president (Mr. John Keep) occupied the chair, and there ...
Article : 1,818 wordsSir,—The shortcomings of members of Parliament I never escape notice, and often in no delicate or refined manner are they pulled to pieces and their faults laid bare. Their duties also as to what they ought to do or ...
Article : 1,805 wordsMr. Field, instructed by Mr. Gillespie, appeared for the execution creditor; and Mr. Russell Jones for the claimant, William Charker. It appeared that Churker had entered into an agreement with defendant that he ...
Article : 815 wordsSir,—In defence of what is termed "the softer sex," I feel bound to protest against the vindictive, nay I may say barbarous, tone adopted by the writer of a letter in to-day's Herald, signed "A Wife and ...
Article : 507 wordsSir,—Public opinion, mainly through the influence of the press and the enormity of the crimes charged to Louisa Collins, has been completely crushed into one narrow groove. The law officers, believing in toto in the guilt ...
Article : 1,138 wordsSir,—As a resident of many years standing in the colonies, and the general interest I [?]ke in matters of importance, I cannot, after all the appearances of letters in your valuable paper re the Botany murderess, keep ...
Article : 246 wordsSir,—In your very able leader this morning you say, in reference to the unfortunate woman Louisa Collins, "If women hold the same rights and privileges as men, and share the advantages of the law and society alike ...
Article : 171 wordsSir,—Every lover of justice and humanity, who has the fear of God and the welfare of the human family at heart, must feel thankful to you for lending your influence to protect the innocent by punishing the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 334 wordsMr. T. K. Abbott, S.M., presided in the Charge branch at the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday, Amelia Merritt, 38, for having been drunk and disorderly in Goulburn-street, was fined 20s., with the ...
Article : 894 wordsSir,—What a gloriously inconsistent creature is "A Wife and Mother." While deploring the fact that a human being has taken the life of another human being, she yet urges the State to commit the same ...
Article : 288 wordsBefore the ordinary business was began before Mr. Abbott, S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday, Mr. T. M. Williamson appealed and tendered an explanation of the circumstances, that led to the ...
Article : 289 wordsSir,—As one of the many who consider that a reasonable doubt may properly be entertained respecting the guilt of Louisa Collins, and not "a mere doubt conjured up by the imagination," I take the liberty of drawing ...
Article : 409 wordsSir,—The numerous letters we see in the daily papers prove beyond a doubt that the feeling against capital punishment is growing stronger every day; but they adduce very few arguments to prove that it would be ...
Article : 567 wordsA meeting of women anxious that the penalty of death pronounced upon Louisa Collins should be altered to imprisonment for life, was held at the Temperance Hall yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Pottie ...
Article : 773 wordsSir,—The growth of larrikinism is generally deplored, but how can we expect any other result from the purposeless occupation of our young workmen during their hours of recreation? A cadet battalion, or ...
Article : 379 wordsSir,—No person can be a greater advocate for [?] planting than myself, where it is possible to do so. But I do not like to see trees planted, and then tot[?] neglected. Some few years since outside the old ba[?] ...
Article : 204 wordsSir,—In connection with many thousands of my sex, I [?] have read the much and varied corrospondonce [?] the case of Louisa Collins, and though feeling deeply upon the subject I have trusted hitherto to better and ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 5 Jan 1889, Page 8
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