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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
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TOWNS POLICE ACT.—The following persons were fined as under for breaches of the Towns Police Act. benjamin Cook, 5s and 5s 6d costs; William Green, 5s and 2s 6d costs; Michael Moran, 5s and 2d 6d costs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ASSAULT.—William Arthur was charged with assanlting his wife, Mary Ann Arthur. On Friday last, the defendant struck her with his clenched [?]st, and gave her a black eye. On Saturday, he [?]peated his violence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACHES OF TOWNS POLICE ACT.—Hector M'Fadden, Patrick Bourke, and Peter Keighan, were charged with allowing animals to stray in East Maitland. The case of M'Fadden was dismissed, and the other two were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—John Garside was charged with being found drunk in Hunter-street on the 3rd instant, and was fined 5s, or twenty-four hours in the lock-up. NEW LICENSE—Mr Maurice Magney obtained a new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.âMary Ann Murphy, found guilty of this charge, and Mary Deviny on a similar charge, were each fined 20s or twenty-four hours in the cells. VAGRANCY.âLouisa Percox and Margaret Percox (the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACH OF THE LICENSING ACT.—Robert Hack worthy, publican, appeared in answer to a summons charging him with having allowed persons to be drinking on his premised after the prescribed hours on the 3rd instant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—Bishop Teff and Elizabeth Skelton were found guilty of this charge, and were each fined 20s, or twenty-four hours in the cells. Mary Patrick and William Brown, on a similar charge, were fined 10s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACHES OF TOWNS POLICE ACT.—John Carey, for allowing a horse to stray, was fined 5s, with 2s 6d costs.—James Quinlan was charged with allowing a load of timber to drag along Newcastle-street, East Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The state of business in the Supreme Court, on the 20th December last, as shown by the returns to an address of the House of Assembly, moved by Mr Hart was as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.—Mary Patrick pleaded guilty to this charge, and was fined 20s or forty-eight hours in the cells. CHARGE OF STEALING.—Eliza Bowman and Frances…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DESERTION OF WIFE.—James Eckford was charged with deserting Elizabeth Maria Eckford, his wife, on 28th May, 1858, and leaving her without any means of support. She was married on Jan. 28, 1858; [?] resided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—Michael M'Garry was fined 20s or 24 hours in the cells. CHARGE OF STEALING.—Michael Connor was charged with stealing a saddle and bridle, the property of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have received a very full statement of facts relative to the murder of three white men at Suwarrow's Island, by a party of natives from Tongareva, or Penrhyn's Island, from which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHARGE OF SCANDAL.—John Pyne was summoned for having by scandal maliciously injured Constable Scarlett, at Black Creek, by sending a certain letter to Mr Day the police magistrate of Maitland. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNK[?]—James L[?] pleaded guilty, and was fined 10[?] or twenty-four hours in the cell. CHARGE OR VAGRANCY.—Jane Lloyd was charged with vagrancy—Constable Gordon was the defendant on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ABANDONING A LICENSED PUBLIC HOUSE.—George Saywell was charged wit abandoning his licensed public house, called the Railway Hotel, in Bank-street, East Maitland. The defendant did not appear. The bench…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TOWNS POLICE ACT.—John Robinson, for riding on his dray, was fined 10s and 2s 6d costs. Joseph Brettell and Henry Baker, for allowing horses to stray, were each fined, the former, 10s with 2s 6d costs, and the latter, 5s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACHES OF TOWNS POLICE ACT.—William Collins and William Prain were found guilty of allowing horses to stray in public place, and were each fined 5s with 2s 6d costs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?]—Elizabeth Clury, in custody, was charged with [?]cy, having on Thursday afternoon thrown her[?]ild down a well for the purpose of committing [?]Dr. Scott saw the prisoner shortly after twelve…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Watson, junr., of Waratah, appeared on summons, at the instance of Sarah Ann Walters, for the maintenance of an illegitimate child, of which the plaintiff alleged the said James Watson…
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