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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
249 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 13
CHARGE OF STABBING.—On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, San[?] a Chinaman, was brought before the bench charged with stabbing Thomas Owen, an aboriginal. On Saturday evening last, Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest, on the body of an infant murdered by its mother, Elizabeth Aldridge, at Botany, on Saturday last, was held at the Queen's Arms Inn, South Head Road, on Monday. The unhappy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—John Brown was charged with using obscene language in High-street on Saturday last. Constable Arthur proved the language used, and the defendant was fined 20s, or seven days in Maitland gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday night a most brutal murder was committed on the railway line a little beyond West Maitland. The murdered person was one Rebecca Bailey, who had for some weeks been cohabiting with the accused John…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ASSAULT.—Catherine Burke was charged with assaulting Alice Murphy, at Louth Park, on the 22nd instant. Alice Murphy, a little girl, said that defendant came into the school where she was present, and said, "Where is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHARGE OF STEALING.—John Sellick was charged with robbing Martin Murphy of £2 in silver on Saturday night. Constable Arthur stated that the prisoner was given into custody by the prosecutor, and when taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drunkenness.—Dennis Gainer, mason, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Watt-street on the 23rd instant, and was fined 20s., or in default, 48 hours in the lock-up…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FELONIOUSLY WOUNDING.—John Scanlon was charged with feloniously wounding with intent to kill Charles Mack on the 25th December. Mr R. B. Minter appeared for the defence. Sergeant Kerrigan apprehended…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Henry Green, a young man, resident at Mosquito Island, was brought before the bench us a person of unsound mind, and unfit to be at large.—Thomas Green, the father of the young man, deposed that his son was about 23 years of age…
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