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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
127 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 7
STEALING COAL FROM THE A.A. COMPANY.—David Walker and Joseph Tarrant, two young lade, were charged with this offence, but the manager not wishing to press a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HENRY STEPHENS, was charged with having unlawfully engaged one John Gray a hired servant in the employ of the A. A. Company. Case postponed to allow of a second magistrate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In our police court, runaway tailors, the use of obscene language and drunkenness form the chief offences, and during the past month there has been little else to record, if we except indeed, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thomas Wade was brought up in custody, charged with violently and maliciously threatening to knock out his wife's brains. This case was postponed to the 21st instant, to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →August 19.—George Tomlins, of Bourke-street, Woolloomooloo, ironmonger, out of business. Liabilities, £2481 17s. 6d. Assets £342 5s. Deficit, £2139 12s. 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A. A. COMPANY.—JOHN GRAY, a miner, was summoned for refusing to perform his contract with this Company. The case, by the consent of the attorneys on both sides, was postponed to the 30th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charley, a Chinaman, accused of stealing a watch, the property of one Chion, a Chinaman, of the value of two guineas, was discharged, the evidence being quite insufficient to convict…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FRANCIS COOK, servant, accused with being drunk and disorderly in Darby-street, on the 20th inst., was reprimanded and discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The sittings of the Court of Requests commenced on Monthly the 1st instant, before H. Scott, Esq., P.M , and His Worship the Mayor, J. Hannel, Esq.. J.P…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The trial of this case, which began on Thursday work, and had already lasted six days, once more lasted the whole day with out being concluded. The evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Henry Graham, a miner, was convicted of using indecent language in a public place at the Bore-hole, and was sentenced to pay a penalty of 20s, or three days in the lock-up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aug. 29,—Alexander M'Gowan, of Ulmerra, Clarence River, farmer. Liabilities, £104 10s 11d. Assets £105. Surplus, 10s 11d. Sep. 1—John Bennett, of Townsend-street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →George Charlton, a miner, answered to a summons charging him with refusing to work, which he had contracted to perform with the A. A. Company. Settled, on condition of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →W. Kerr Lochhead appeared to a summons charging him with refusing to receive Mary Carberry as a hired servant, after having agreed to accept her in that capacity. There…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →September 16.—James Bourne, of Newcastle, late of Wollombi, smith. Liabilities, £89 7z 6d., Assets £25 6s. Deficit £64 1s. 6d.—Mr. Semphill, official assignee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Newton, a seaman who had been remanded from the previous day, under a charge of stealing a boat, the property of James and A Brown, on the 14th instant, was discharged, there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Chapman, a stone mason, convicted of using indecent language on the platform of the Groat Northern Railway Newcastle, was sentenced to pay a fine of twenty shillings or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(Before H. Scott, Esq., P.M., J. Hannell, Esq., J.P., G. R. Dibbs, Esq., and J. Bingle, Esq., J.P ALEXANDER LAYMAN, labourer, brought up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I happened to stray into the Court-house on Thursday lust, the 25th instant, Mid a case was being entered into about a publican keeping his house open after hours. The sitting Magistrates…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Callaghan convicted of being drunk and drunk and disorderly on board the brig Australian, on the 26th inst., was fined twenty shillings or forty-eight hours in the lock-up…
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