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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
241 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 13
Sir James M Kenzie, Bart, now staying at the Great Norther Railway Hotel, King's cross, was charged, at the Clerkenwell [?] Court, with violently assaulting Loutea [?], at the station, Kin[?]—Louitz [?] The defendant called at my…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKARDS.—Thomas Qunley was fined 20s for being drunk. Mary Night, a married woman 14 years and 3 months old, was brought up for being drunk on Saturday night in Melbourne-street. Sergeant Kennedy said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—Constable Crawford brought up Millington Farrell for being drunk and using obscene language, on Saturday night, near the Amphitheatre. The defendant was fined £5; in default, three months…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The occasion of the suspicious union of a popular British [?] with the hopeful [?] of the house of Hohernzollern necessarily draws attention to the personal character of the leading Prussian Sovereigns…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WAGES.—William Lindons summoned John Wise for wages due, namely £4 14s 3d. The Bench ordered that amount to be paid, together with professional and court costs. Mr. O'Meagher appeared for complainant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ILLEGAL DETENTION OF CLASS.—In the adjourned case of Enoch Cobecroft against J. Cox and Arthur Kingmill, for illegal detention of glass the complainant did not appear, and the court awarded Mr. O'Meagher, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for trespass upon a squatting run in the district of Liverpool Plains, in which cause a verdict having been obtained by the plaintiff, the Court had granted a new trial. This second trial lasted nine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ASSAULT.—Thomas William Coleman summoned Richard Savage for having assaulted, him on the 27th instant. The complainant deposed that he started for church last Sunday night, and passed the defendant and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ASSAULT.—Hugh Frazier summoned James Smith, for an assault on the 23rd June. The complainant deposed that he had some fat cattle in the defendant's paddock, and requiring them, he went at 6 p.m. to get the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKAROS.—John Hutchison, brought up for drunkenness, was admonished and discharged, it being his first offence. STEALING.—Charles Lewis appeared on remand for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNK.—John Green, guilty of drunkenness on Saturday night was fined 10s, in default 24 hours in the lock-up Fran[?] Shaw, a German who said he had not been drunk for the past nine months till last night, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a motion for a new trial of action tried at the last September sittings at Maitland, when a verdict was returned for the defendant. The Attorney-General and Mr. Isaacs appeared in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VAGRANT.—Henry Johnson, a frightful looking specimen of humanity, with matted and tangled hair, with one eye closed up, and the other swelled from dirt and cold, and looking more filthy and neglected than the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In this case, Mr. Justice Therry delivered the judgment of the Court refusing a new trial because there war evidence on which the verdict might be justified, and it was the province of the jury to judge of the value of their evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday [?] Mr. Wakley, the coroner for the western division of [?] opened an inquest at the marquis of Salisbury, Poin[?] upon the body of the [?] Osborne whose [?] death will be [?] in the evidence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ABSCONDING.—James Hansford, in custody for absconding from the hired service of Mr. Samuel Clift, was remanded till to-morrow to allow him to procure a witness who would prove that his master told him to go…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNK.—Garvin Houston was brought up for being drunk on Saturday night; having suffered continement for two nights, he was admonished and discharged. ASSAULT.—Thomas Maber was summoned for an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AGRANT.—Lucy Phillpot, an old woman convicted of begging on High street, was sentenced to six weeks imprisonment, being an old offender. DRUNKARD.—James Kelly was fined 10s for being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There were cases on the sheet. One case for protection was discharged by the Bench, and advised to apply to the Hospital. Two drunkards and a vagrant were dispose off in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Friday afternoon, between twelve and one o'clock, a murder was committed on board the American ship Oliver Jordan, lying at Macoamara's Wharf, Windmill-street. The victim in this instance of unbridled passion…
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