Joseph Edward Scutts 1845-1919

[Central Police Court. Tuesday. The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW :1842-1954) Wednesday 11 October 1865 p2 Article - On the summons sheet were twelve cases, two of which were dismissed, one was postponed, and three were struck out. Joseph Scutts and Henry Hughes, both of Petersham, pleaded guilty to information in which they were charged with keeping hogs, feeding them upon the entrails of beasts, and other filth, by reason whereof the air is greatly corrupted, to the common nuisance of the inhabitants; and were ordered to remove the animals forthwith.] [Empire - Sydney, NSW: 1850-1875 Wednesday 11 October 1865. Joseph Scutt (sic) and Henry Hughes pleaded guilty to keeping pigs on their promises at Petersham, causing a nuisance. The nuisances were ordered to be removed within seven days.] [Central Police Court - Saturday. (Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. B. Burdekin.) Empire (Sydney, NSW :1850-1875) Tuesday 7 November 1865 p5 Article. Daniel Handlon, Joseph Scutts, and William Giles pleaded guilty to stealing ten pigeons, the property of Thomas Brown, and were each fined 20s., or seven days to gaol.] [Evening News, Wednesday 26 February 1873 p3 Article. Riot. Joseph Scutts, Joseph Farrell, Mathew Brooks, John Beanett, James Nugent' Alfred Bennett, Vincent Lawes, Benjamin Lawes, James Tancred, Alexander O'Neil, William Melton, and William Blackall were called on bail, to plead to the charge of having, on the 1st January, 1873, with other evil disposed persons, whose names are unknown to the Attorney-General, unlawfully and riotously assembled together on the Parramatta Road, against the peace of our sovereign Lady the Queen, and that they did there unlawfully and riotously assault one William M'Aleer, a constable in the police force of this colony. A second count charged the prisoners with having assaulted the said constable in the execution of his duties. The prisoners, through their counsel (Mr. Windeyer), applied for four days to be allowed to them to plead. Leave was given and the prisoners were ordered to appear again on Monday next to answer to the charge.] [Australian Town & Country Journal (NSW: 1870-1907) Saturday 8 March 1873 Central Criminal Court. Joseph Scutts, Joseph Farrell, Matthew Brooks, John Bennett, James Nugent, Alfred Bennett, Vincent Laws, James Tancred, Alexander O'Neill, William Melton, and William Blackhall, were acquitted of rioting, and assaulting a constable named William M'Lear, on the 31st December, 1872, on the Parramatta and Balmain Roads.] [Supreme Court - Tuesday, November 14 (Before their Honor the Chief Justice Mr. Justice Stephen and Mr. Justice Foster) Parsons v Scutts - Mr. C. B. Stephens, instructed by Messrs. Cope and King, appeared for the defendant in support of a demurrer to the plaintiff's decoration; and Mr. Tarleton, instructed by Mr. W. J. Hill, appeared for plaintiff in opposition to the demurrer. William H. Parsons, the plaintiff in the action, alleged in his declaration that in November 1887, he leased certain lands from defendant, Joseph Scutts, for five years, and that during that period the defendant, in fraud of a covenant contained in the deed, served James Ryan and William Russell, the plaintiff's sub-tenants, with notice not to pay the rent to plaintiff, but to him, and thereupon Ryan and Russell refused to pay rent to the plaintiff. This declaration was demurred to by the defendant as bad in law on the following grounds:(1)That the declaration does not disclose any cause of action. (2)That the matters complained of in the declaration do not constitute a breach of the covenant. (3)That the alleged payments made by the plaintiff's sub-tenants to the defendant, were (according to the allegation in the declaration) made by them in their own wrong, and could not prejudice the position or rights of the plaintiff as such alleged lessee.] [The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 15 January 1883 p9 Advertising. To Brickmakers and Heavy Carriers, William Inglis and Co. have received instructions from Mr. Joseph Scutts to sell by auction, at the Bazaar, on Tuesday, the 10th instant, at 12 o'clock, 5 powerful draught horses; in splendid working condition, stanch, and subject to trial 2 first-class brick drays and harness.] [The Sydney Morning Herald 1842-1954, Monday 15 October 1888. About 2.40am on Saturday the dead body of a child named Mary Smith was found drowned in a waterhole at Scutt's brickyard, off Munon Steeet, Leichhardt, It appears that the previous night the child was missing from the residence of its parents Munon Street, Leichhardt. Information was given to the police, and a search was instituted, with the result that the deceased's cape was found floating in the waterhold. Senior-constable Lees, after dragging the waterhole for some time recovered the body of above stated, and conveyed it to the parents residence. Dr Simpson was called in, and pronounced life extinct. The doctor is of opinion that the cause of death was due to asphyxia from drowning, the coroner has been notified of the occurrence.] [Casualties. The Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday 16 October 1890 p5 Article. Yesterday afternoon a fire was discovered in a stable at the rear of premises situate Foster Street, Leichhardt, and tenanted by Joseph Scutts, florist. The Leichhardt Volunteer Fire Company, assisted by members of the Metropolitian Fire Brigade (No.2 Station), extinguished the flames by means of a hydrant, but not before the building, which contained a buggy, harness, and a quantity of lumber, had been almost completely destroyed. The stable and and its contents were insured in the Union Company of New Zealand for £100. It is supposed that the fire originated in a spark from the pipe of some person smoking. The stable was constructed of weatherboard with iron roof, and was owned by the occupant.] [Friday 26 April 1907 The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW :1842-1954) Acquittal. Joseph Scutts, an elderly man, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having, on March 16 last, at Gordon, maliciously wounded John Peters, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. Peters stated that he was drinking in a hotel with Mrs. Scutts and others, and accused came in and struck him on the face with his fist. Witness fell to the bar floor, where there was a broken tumbler. After getting into holds with accused, and during the struggle on the floor, he believed he got a cut on the jaw from the broken glass. Peters said he was under the influence of drink, but Scutts was not. He did not believe Scutts hit him with a glass, or anything but his hand. He had known the man for years, and did not think he would do anything like that. His Honor asked the Crown Prosecutor if, after this evidence, he would proceed further with the charge. Mr. Harris: I have just been consulting with Dr. Thane, and he agrees that the injury may have been inflicted in the way Peters says. Under the circumstances I cannot carry the case further. I may say that this statement is very different from what appears to have been made at the other Court, according to the depositions. His Honor directed the jury to find a verdict of not guilty, and the Jury, without leaving tho box, acquitted the accused. Accused, before leaving the dock, freed of the charge, said that he was not drinking on the occasion of the assault. He had merely gone to the hotel to get his wife, who was there drinking. His Honor expressed his sorrow that drinking had brought this trouble upon the accused.] [Evening News (Sydney, NSW: 1869-1931) First-Class Cottage, with 5 acres of land, glasshouses, bush sheds, and stables, price £4000, situated in Foster Street, Leichhardt; also first-class Shop, bargain, price £1000, in Parramatta Road, Petersham. JosephScutts, Foster Street, Leichhardt.] [The Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 6 April 1909 - Bryant - The Friends of Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Scutts are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of their beloved Sister, Mrs. Martha Ann Bryant, which will leave her late residence, Lillian, 95 Marion Street, Leichhardt.] [The Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 16 September 1919 - Scutts - The Relatives and Friends of Mrs Susan Scutts & the Misses Clarice & Daphne Scutts are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of her dearly beloved Husband and their Father, Joseph; to leave his residence, 16 Carlisle Street, Leichhardt, This Afternoon, at 1.30, for C. of E. Cemetery, Rookwood, via Lewisham Station. Crockett & Company, Tel.,207 Petersham, Undertakers Leichhardt. Scutts - The friends of Mrs & Mrs Herbert Tunbridge (of Waterloo Road, North Ryde) are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of their dearly beloved Father the late Joseph Scutts to leave his residence, 16 Carlisle Street, Leichhardt, This Afternoon at 1.30 for C. of E. Cemetery, Rookwood. Scutts - The Friends of Mr & Mrs. Richard Birch (of Wells Street, Annandale) are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of their dearly beloved Father, the late Joseph Scutts to move from his residence, 16 Carlisle Street, Leichhardt This Afternoon at 1.30 for C .of E. Cemetery, Rookwood. Scutts - The Friends of Mr & Mrs Albert Dickson (of Hunter Street, Hornsby) are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of their dearly beloved Father, the late Joseph Scutts; to leave his residence, 16 Carlisle Street, Leichhardt, This Afternoon at 1.30, C. of E. Cemetery, Rookwood. Scutts - The Friends of Mr & Mrs Joseph Scutts, Junior (of 4 Burfitt Street, Leichhardt) are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of their dearly beloved Father Joseph to move from his residence, 16 Carlisle Street, Leichhardt This Afternoon at 1.30. for C. of E. Cemetery, Rookwood. Scutts -The Friends of Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Reynolds, of 12 Walter Street, Leichhardt are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of their dearly beloved Father, the late Joseph Scutts; to leave his residence, 16 Carlisle Street, Leichhardt, This Afternoon, at 1.30, for C. of E. Cemetery, Rookwood via Lewisham Station.]