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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
108 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 6
SIR—There are many cases tried here every court day for the recovery of debts under £10 and I conceive it to be the date of the clerk to affix a list of there (in the order in which they are to be called on) outside…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the estate of Joseph Dhanis, a third meeting Deb's amounting to £1135 6s 3d were proved, one of £600 was allowed as a claim only, and one stands over for further consideration…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Croker and John Salter, who had both been Admitted to bail surrendered to take their trails upon an indictment charging them with having forcibly and violently broken into the dwelling-house of a Mr. James…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—if a subject deserves consideration in proportion to the magnitude of the interests it involves, and the extent of field it offers to the exercise of legiminate animadversion few we believe in that voluminous detail of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FEW things are more conducive to the respect and observance of the law than regularity and certainly in its administration. These desiderata are of equal value, are equally necessary, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In our issued of Wednesday, the 15th, and Saturday, the 18th instant, will be found the report of a case tried before the Maitland Bench of Magistrates on Tuesday, the 14th, and by remand on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Paris, February 13.—A madman attacked the Empress to-day. He was instantly arrested. No arms were found upon him He declared that his intention was merely to embrace her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On last Thursday evening a public meeting was held at the Court House, East Maitland for the purpose of in arrive Mr. Weekes, one of the members for these Boroughs, give an account of his stewardship. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thomas Digges was indicted fur having stolen a bull, the property of Alexander Busby and another. The offence was committed at or near Cassilis, on or about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There has during the past week been a sitting of the Supreme Court in its Criminal Jurisdiction, but of the cases disposed of there were but four which all for notice. Of these four two were of infanticide, and two of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New Yark papers give the details of a recent extraordinary crime in that city:—A Dr. Harvey Burdell was found, during Saturday, the 31st of January, dead in his room, at 31. Bond-street, strangled, with,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR.—It is painful duty that devolves upon me, to report to you for the information of his Excellency the Governor-General, the circumstances attending the late calamitous inundation, which has taken place in this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a motion for charge of venue in a squatting action, being a cross-action against the defendant, who had laid his venue in Sydney. In the present action the venue was laid at Maitland, and the defendant moved to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The trial of Thomas Fuller Bacon, smith, aged 32, and his wife Martha, aged 26, for the murder of their two children, one three years and the other an infan[?], camson at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →His Excellency the Governor General has been pleased, with the advice of the Executive Council, to appoint William Browne, Esq., to be Police Magistrate for the police district of Mudgee, under the provisions of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE COMMERCIAL BASK ROBBERY (£1627). William Kemp. lately a messenger in the Commercial Bank, was indicated for having on the 30th day of May, 1857, stolen £1627 oin notes, the property of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Chinese, named A Leen, A Chong. and A Chin, were placed in the dock, the first charged on suspicion, with being a party to the murder of Sophia Lewis, in Stephen street, on the 1st December last, and the two latter with being accessory thereto…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jimmy a Chinaman was indicted for feloniously stealing two waistcoats a saddle cloth a table cloth and other articles the property of Franklin Jaques at Uralla on the 17th of May 1857. The prisoner, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Lowe, whose case was on the list of cases for trial was not called the Crown Prosecutor declining to prosecure. STEALING IN A DWELLING-HOUSE William Cooper and Thomas Cooper were indicted for that they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The scene in the Court-yard is such as the High Court of Justiciary has never presented before in the present century. The whole of the Faculty of Advocates would seem to be there, filling more than their own…
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