The Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 24 Jan 1867 1
CENTRAL POLICE COURT.
WEDNESDAY.
BEFORE the Police Magistrate, with Messrs Caldwell, Macdona, Dangar, Cohen, and Day.
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Daniel Connors was committed for trial at the next sittings of the Central Criminal Court on two charges of rape. The offences were committed on last Saturday week, and the victims were two intelligent little girls of respectable parentage, neither of them more then eight years of age. Prisoner decoyed them into Pritchard=s stables, near Brisbane-lane, not far from where he found them playing. The medical evidence showed that the children had become infected with a loathsome disease from which the prisoner was suffering when apprehended in the Infirmary.
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Empire, Wed 13 Feb 1867 2
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—TUESDAY.
FIRST COURT.
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(Before his Honor Mr Justice Cheeke.)
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INDECENT ASSAULT.
Daniel Connors, aged 20 years, was indicted, and pleaded guilty to two indecent assaults, on the 9th January, at SydneyCone on Margaret Macdonald, the other on Charlotte Cox, both girls under the age of ten years, with intent to carnally know them.
Mr Windeyer said he was instructed by the prisoner to call several respectable witnesses as to character.
The prisoner was remanded for sentence.
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The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed 13 Feb 1867 3
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
TUESDAY.
FIRST COURT.
Before His Honor Mr Justice Cheeke.
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Indecent Assault.
Daniel Connors pleaded guilty to a charge of having on the 9th December last assaulted on Margaret Macdonald, a girl under the age of ten years, with a felonious intent.
The same prisoner also pleaded guilty to another charge of assaulting one Charlotte Cox, with a like felonious intent.
Mr Windeyer, on behalf of the prisoner, said that evidence as to character could be produced, and the prisoner was remanded for sentence.
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Empire, Wed 20 Feb 1867 4
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
TUESDAY.
(Before his Honor Mr Justice Cheeke and a common jury.)
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Daniel Connors, aged eighteen years, who pleaded guilty to two charges of indecently assaulting two girls under the age of ten years, reminded his Honor of the good character which had been given him, and asked for mercy. He was sentenced, for the two offences, to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour on the roads or other public works of the colony.
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The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed 20 Feb 1867 5
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
Tuesday.
Before his Honor Mr Justice Cheeke.
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SENTENCES.
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Daniel Connors, a youth who pleaded guilty to two distinct charges of committing indecent assault upon two girls under the age of ten years, was brought up for sentence. The prisoner on being called on reminded his Honor of the testimony that had been given as to his previous good character, and on that account he asked for mercy. His Honor sentenced prisoner to three years= hard labour on the roads or public works of the colony.
1 The Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 24 Jan 1867, p. 2.
2 Empire, Wed 20 Feb 1867, p. 4.
3 The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed 13 Feb 1867, p. 3.
4 Empire, Wed 13 Feb 1867, p. 5.
5 The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed 13 Feb 1867, p. 3.