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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
249 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 13
At the instance of John Gill, the estate of Thomas Grace, builder, Tamworth, was compulsorily sequestrated. The insolvent appeared, and the meeting adjourned for a day to show him to file his schedule…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACHES OF TOWNS POLICE ACT.—For allowing horses to stray in a street or public place in West Maitland, James Storey, J. S. Doyle, and G. Chapman, were each fined 5s and 7s 6d costs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MALICIOUS INJURY.—John Jury was charged by william Hayes, with maliciously destroying a dog, his property on the 28th March last. John Quinn lived in Haves employment and when in the paddock on 28th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VAGRANCY.—Amyah, Wosan, Solemanzand, and sedan, Lascar seamen, belonging to the American barque Jennett, were brought before the Court as vagrants, having no means of support or place of adobe. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BREACH OR TOWNS POLICE ACT.—James Fogarty, for allowing a horse to stray, was fined 10s and 2s 6d costs. There were three other cases, which had to be postponed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—James Brown charged with being drunk in Watt-street, on the 4th instant, pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s or twenty-four hours, in the lock-up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The trial of Mary Anne Perry, for the wilful murder of her husband, John Perry, at Burwood, on the 27th of December last, came off on Tuesday and Wednesday, at the Central Criminal Court, before Mr Justice Milford…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACH[?] OF THE TOWNS POLICE ACT.—John Bald. win p[?] gaity to ricing on his dray, and was fined 10s with 2s 6d costs.—Elizabeth Mair was charged with [?] two horses to stray in a public place in East…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—William Abell appeared, on bail, to answer the charge of being touch drunk in Hunter-street, on the 7th inst it The defendant, evidently a respertable man, and conscious of his hum[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?] LANGUAGE.—Hears L wis wis charged by organ[?] K [?] Sunday night, on [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →REFUSING DUTY ON BOARD SHIP.—Berjamin Elli[?] and Thomas Greaves, seamen, belonging to the Danie Watson, now lying in harbour, were brought tup, charged with having refused duty on board ship. John Bown…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquest on view of the body of Anne Glen, who, was murdered by her husband on Saturday night, was held yesterday at the Waverley Tea Gardens Hotel, and resulted in a verdict of wilful murder. A jury of twelve…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →USING OBSCENE LANGUAGE—George Scofield was charged by Sergeant Kerrigan with using obscene language, in Upper hunter-street, on Monday night. The complaint proved the language, which was used in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACHES OF TOWNS POLICE ACT.—John Smith was convicted for allowing a horse to stray, on the 11th instant, and fined 6s and 2s 6d costs.—G. F. Davidson; also, charged with allowing a horse to stray, proved that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr Isaacs moved upon notice for leave to appeal in this case with an ad[?] stay of proceedings. Mr Blake opposed the stay of proceeding, contending that the defendant ought to have his costs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MASTERS AND SERVANTS ACT.—Enoch Coberoft was summoned, by Thomas M'Lean, for a breach of this Act having refused to pay the sum of £27s 6d due to him for driving a flock of sheep from Armidale to Maitland. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THREATENING TO COMMIT SUICIDE.âGeo. E. Lloyd, a painter by trade, was charged with leaving threatened to commit suicide, while in a state of delirium tremens. Mr Morris Magney of the Market Wharf Inn, said the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—Esther Burnett pleaded guilty to this charge, and was fined 10s, or twe[?]lve hours in the cells. MAINTENANCE—Patrick Troy was again charged by Mary Troy for refusing to maintain her and his children…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →D[?]NNESS.—David Littlejohn pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined 20s, or forty-eight hours in the colls. Fred[?] Jones also pleaded gui[?]yto a similar chatge, and was fined 10s, or twenty-four hours…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a motion for a new trad in an action for trespass upon a squatting run, wherein the defendant had obtained a verdict. The dispute out of which this action arose was one which had in various ways been…
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