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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
249 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 13
BREACH OF TOWNS POLICE ACT.—Bridget Horrigan for allowing two cows to stray was fined 5s and 2s 6d costs. ASSAULT.—William Mortin was charged by Matthew…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →USING OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—John Harris was charged with using obscene language on Sunday afternoon Constable L'Lean and Arthur heard the prisoner when in Durham-street on Sunday afternoon using very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BREACHES OF TOWNS POLICE ACT.—James Smith was fined 5s, and 2s 6d costs, for allowing two pigs to stray in Melbourne-street, East Maitland. Thomas Thorne, for allowing a horse to stray, was discharged, as the horse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VIOLENT ASSAULT.—James Brown was charged with having violently assaulted Agnes Walsh, on Monday evening, 17the October, in a house in D[?]-street, by kicking her on the legs. Sergeant Kerrigan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Matthew Francis, a tailor and ha[?]lier, aged twenty-six, was indicted at Monmouth for murdering his wife Sarah Francis, by cutting her throat with a razor, at Newport, on the 12th of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRINE[?]—Eliza M'Ginley pleaded guilty to this charge, and was fined 20, or forty-eight hours in the cells. George Williams on a sim[?] charge, and also for using [?] language, was fined £5, or three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VIOLENT ASSAULT.—Thomas Clewley was charged with having violently assaulted his wife Elizabeth Clewley on 24th October last. Constable Gordon apprehended the prisoner for violently assaulting his wife. Elizabeth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACHES OF TOWNS POLICE ACT.—John Fogarty, Thomas Kent, and Ellen Maber pleaded guilty to breaches of this act for allowing cattle and horses to stray in the public streets, and were each fined 5s and 2s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a new triff motion in an action of trespass, brought to try the right to a portion of a sheep and cattle run in the New England district. Mr Broadhurst, Q.C., Mr Wise, and Mr Dangar…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACH OF TOWNS POLICE ACT.—George Geddes was found guilty of riding on his dray, and was fined 20s, with costs. ASSAULT.—Robert M'Donnell was charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—Mary Troy was convicted of being drunk, and having been in the lock-up since Saturday, was admonished and discharged. CHARGE OF STEALING.—Robert Hamilton was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The argument in this case was concluded, and the Court reserved judgment. BALDWIN V. MORAN. This was a motion for a new trial in an action…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BREACHES OF TOWNS POLICE ACT.—Joseph Bretell and Alexander Sheddon were summoned for allowing horses and cows to stray in the public streets. The straying having been proved to be accidental, the cases…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr M'Dougall, Mr G. B. White, and Dr M'Cartney. DRUNKENNESS.—William Wilson, who pleaded guilty to this offence, was fined 20s, or twenty-four hours in the cells…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The master and chief mate of the barque "Snaresbrook" were fully committed for trial on the 15th Sept., on a charge of wilful murder committed at sea upon a lad named Francis…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a de[?]rer to defendant's plea in an action of trespass. The trespass declared upon was the driving of a flock of diseases sheep over the plaintiff's run. The plea demurred to was that the sheep were driven along a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IMPOUNDING ACT.—Andrew Minch charged John Miller with a breach of this Act, by levying excessive damages. Prosecutor stated that his land [?] situated next to the prisoner's, being divided only by a fence, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for libel. The declaration contained two counts. The first count averred that the plaintiff, being the surgeon and medical officer of the Maitland Hospital the defendant falsely and maliciously wrote…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ASSAULT.—Nicholas Ryan was brought up in the custody of Constable M'Lean, and charged by Mr P. Green, the magistrate, with magistrate, with fighting, on Friday afternoon last. Prosecutor nor appearing, prisoner was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We briefly stated in our last that information had been given to the police stationed at Binda, that a settler named Thomas Monks, about sixty years of age, residing at Phil's River, some nine miles from Binda, had been…
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