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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
241 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 13
There were ten cases on the sheet. DRUNKARDS.—T. Burke, J. Kelly, and J. Scott were charged with drunkenness: Burke and Kelly were fined 40s or 24 hours' imprisonment, and Scott was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EXCESSIVE DAMAGES.—William Newtown was summoned by George Weakley for having levied excessive damages on two pigs impounded at Hexham on the 19th instant, to wit 5s per heae. The damages were [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Moyse was placed in the dock on an indictment which charged him, that at Sydney, on the 23rd July last, did feloniously maliciously, and of malice afore thought, kill and murder one William A. Abien…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →VAGRANT.—Constable Gordon brought up an old wizened woman, named Honora Brown, and charged her with being a vagrant. Sergeant Kerrigan, as a testimony to her character, read out of the Black Book the dates of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VAGRANCY.—Mary Ann Cook was sent to gaol for two months as a vagrant and houseless person. DRUNK.—Thomas Bourke was fined 10s for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKARDS.—Joseph Dawson, who pleaded guilty to the charge of drunkenness, was admonished and discharged. William Doherty also pleaded guilty, but as he was a bullock driver, and had left his team in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRINKENNESS.—John Gordon pleaded guilty to being drunken Saturday night, and was admonished and discharged.—Henry Wood, on a similar charge, was also admoished and discharged.—Henry Thearl pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LARCENY.âPatrick Doyle was brought up on remand charged with larceny. Donald Stewart, farmer, of the Williams River, said he was at Tyrrell's house on the 29th July, and saw Doyle taking away about three car…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Edward Charles Madgwick summoned George Mackay, J.P., of Dungog, for having committed penjury, on the 24th of March. The information [?] forth that on the day in question, at the Court House, Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BREACH OF THE MASTERS AND SERVANTS ACT.—James Godwin was charged by Charles Cridland, of West Maitland, with absenting himself on Tuesday. 17th August from his hired service. The charge was fully…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE [?].âWilliam Gregory, bailiff of the Court of Requests, was summoned by Mary Jane Purcell, for having unlawfully and falsely pretended to hor that the sum of 5s 6d was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This [?] which, having taken up seven days, now came to a close, was an action for trespass upon a squatting run calle; Walhollow, in hte district of Liverpool Pal[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PROTECTION.—Christopher Watson was brought up for protection as being insane. Certificates from Drs. Wilton and M'Cartney having been produced, the prisoner was committed to gaol until a warrant came…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ILLYGALLY ON PREMISES.âJohanna Monan was brought before the Bench charged with being found illegally on the premises of the Messrs. Bingle, and was sentenced to one month's imprisonment in Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—William Watson pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness on Saturday night, and was admonished and discharged. VAGRANCY.—John Forster and James Forster, two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SERIOUSLY WOUNDING.—John M'Phee, the party reported in our last issue as having seriously wounded a man known as "Big Tom." was placed at the bar. and remanded until Saturday, in the home that the plaintiff…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.—Peter M'Garry pleaded guilty to this charge, and was admonished and discharged. CHARGE OF STEALING.—Mary Hardman on remand for stealing a [?]. Mr. Mullen appeared for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHARGE OF ENDEZZLEMENT.—J. F. Nightingale on remand from West Maitland Court, was brought up charged with having embezzled the property of J. J. Jacobs, East Maitland—John Wood publican…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →VIOLENT ASSAULT.—John M'Phee, whose case was remanded from Wednesday last to this day, was placed at the bar and again remanced in consequence of the injured man not being sufficiently recovered to attend…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHARGE OF POISONING.—Paddy Sinclair was brought up on remand, on Monday before the Police Magistrate on the charge of poisoning Thomas Edwards, now living ill at Mr. Conn's public house, High-street. West…
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