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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
58 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 3
Before Mr Justice Milford. Yesterday, Sing Chai, At Chai, and Wong Sing (Chinese), were put upon their trial for having obtained money from several of their countrymen by stating that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In this case, the jury, at half-past nine o'clock on Friday night, returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages, £1273. (Before the Chief Justice, and a Special Jury of Twelve)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—Neil G[?]les was charged with being drunk in High-street, West Maitland on Wednesday night, between 11 and 12 o'clock Defendant pleaded not guilty. It appeared that defendant and three others…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for [?]. It being alleged that the defendant had [?]passed on the land of the plaintiff in High-street, West Maitland. Damages £200. Mr. Faucett appeared for the plaintiff; attorney, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHARGE OF HORSE STEALING.âAugust Manicil was brought up before the Bench on a charge of stealing a bay horse, which was also in cu[?]ody of the police Is[?] Corrick sold to the prisoner the horse now in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RIOTING—Thomas Long, James Wensley and Thomas Hartglan, jun., were charged by the chief-constable with, on the 29th March, unlawfully commiting a breach of the peace. Thomas Hartglan did not answer to his name. John Dillon was also…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →USING THREATS.—John Tierney was summoned by Joshua Anderson for using threatening language to him on the night of the 29th March (the night of the riot), putting him in bodily fear, and calculated to produce a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHARGE OF STEALINGâElizabeth M'Finley was charged with stealing a silver hunting watch, a counterpane, one blanket, and three shee[?], the property of Thomas Thomas. The prisoner was apprehended on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →REFUSING TO PAY WAGESâThomas Berthwick was summoned by Catherine Newell for refusing to pay wages amounting to £6 4s. due to her. The complainant was engaged as a general servant on 13th September…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ROBBERY.—Sarah Scanlon and Robert Cooper were charged with robbing with violence one Patrick Looney of 17s 6d, on the 18th instant, in the house of Mrs. Chaney, Wade's Lane, West Maitland, Constable Purtill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday morning a painful sensation was created in this district by the report that a man had met a violet death by the hands of an assassin, near Ravensfield, on the previous day. The statement has been confirmed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VIOLENT ASSAULT.—William Brown was charged by [?] Kurrigan with viciontry ass[?]ting Louisa Per[?] on Sunday morning, in her house in Durham-street [?]king her on the head with a black battle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The adjourned meeting for licep[?]ing publicans in the police district of Maitland was [?] the Court House East Maitland, yesterday (Tuesday), for the purpose of considering the cases of all those applicants to whom…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ILLEGAL DEFENTION.—Henry Chivers was charged with illegally detaining a bay mare, the property of Richard Griffith, Mr. Mullen appeared for complainant, and Mr. Borton for defendant. The complainant said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Malcolm Melville Macdonald pleaded guilty to a change of assaulting the Rev. Dr. Lang, M.L.A., on the 13th march last. Mr Iceton, who appeared for the defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →George E. Swan was brought before the Bench, at West Mailand, on Thursday, changed with the murder of John Barton, near Stoney Creek, on Wednesday, 18th April…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Chief Constable called the attention of the bench to a lecture which was to be delivered by a Mr. Burchanan, at a public house in Hinton, on Saturday evening next, "On the sinfulness and barbarism of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BURGLARY—James S. Borden was charged with stealing from the house of John Wall,a t Burwood, near Newcastle, £17 in notes and a gold ring. Constable Merri-apprehended the prisoner in High-street, West Maitland…
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