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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
108 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 6
The personal appearance of Miss Smith, the central figure in this remarkable case, is the point on which most attraction seems to be fixed in the court by the spectators with which it is thronged, and which is most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charles Robert Middleton toor the caths as a Magistrate of the territory. OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE PRETENCES. William Henry Knipe was indicated for that he d[?], at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joseph Wilson was indicated for feloniously ravishing Mary Wil-on, at Clairvaux, on the 28th June. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. He was defended by Mr. Fancett; attorney, Mr. Ward. The prisoner being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE regular administration of justice is a sure sign that a community is well governed. Its neglect betokens civil decay, and the approaching dissolution of society. Whatever blemishes may exist in the British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The trial of this cause, before Mr Justice Dickinson and a special jury of twelve, concluded on Saturday, having occupied thirty day. The litigation in this suit has already laster nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The hearing of this cause was resumed. The Solicitor General resumed his defence until the witnesses for the defence had been examined. The witnesses called were Thomas George Rusden…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the estate of Myer Lewis Jonas, an adjourned certificate meeting was held, but in consequence of the absence of insolvent's solicitor and also the solicitor for the opposing creditor, the meeting was adjourned to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →His Honor at the opening of the Court, stated that he would not prolong the session beyond Saturday (this day.) He then stated the various reasons why he had adopted this course…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The hearing of this ease was resumed. The witnesses examined for the defence were William petley, John B[?]oomfield, Tilmouth Felix Dye, John Edward Irwin, and Joseph Dennett…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?] a third meeting. Debts amounting to £670 9s 6d were proved, and the [?]guce read his report. In the estate of James Ewen, a third meeting. Debts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.— John Sullivan was brought up by Serjeant Kennedy for being drunk in S[?]-street. Morpeth, on Thursday night. as that was his first appearance in Court on such a charge, he was reprimanded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MASTERS' AND SERVANTS'S ACT.—Michael Kenny summoned John Drinan for the sum of £30 9s, due to him for dencing The Complaint deposed that he agreed to put up fencing at 3s, 6d, a rod and after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →STABBING WITH A KNIRE—Yesterday, Robert Jones was brought before Charles Bolton, Esq., at the police office. Newcastle, on a charge of having stabbed with a knife. The illness of the wounded man necessitated a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At 2 o'clock on Monday, the 12th instant, a meeting of the committee was held, according to advertisement, at the [?] Park Inn, to devise the most efficient means of having executed, without further delay, the objects DRUNKENNESS.—Ann Burke was brought up by Constable Maclean, for being drunk in High-street on Saturday night, and fined 10s, in default forty-eight hours imprisonment. Samuel Reynolds was accused of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OBSCENITY.—Constable M'Lean charged Mary Minion with using obscene language on Saturday last, between the hours of four and five in the afternoon, opposite the Northumberland Hotel. As was an old offender, she…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKUNNESS.—Mary Lewis was brought up by Sergeant Kerrigan for drunkennes; the woman had been before the Court previously for vagrancy, and on this occasion she was attended by five children; the Bench…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Clark was indicted for feloniously stealing a sum of money, namely £31 14s, the property of Samuel Webber, at Maitland, on the 17th July. The prisoner, who was undefended, pleaded not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a motion upon notice, on behalf of defendant to change the venue, in an action for slander, from Sydney to Maitland, upon the ground the island, declared upon was uttered at Morpeth, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ROBBERY.—Patrick Lennon was charged with robbing Edward Armstrong of a £5 note, a £5 cheque, and two sovereigns. Constable M'Lean said he apprehended the prisoner at Rutherford stone quarry: he denied the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Patrick Brady and James Molloy were indicted for feloniously stealing 2 steers; the property of Edward Peters, of Paterson, on the 4th Oct. Mr. Chambers, for the prisoners, applied for a…
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