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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
129 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 7
LARCENY.—Peter Peterson was charged with stealing £3 10s., the property of John Duggan, off the 13th instant.—Charles Griffin deposed that he is a constable in the police; about half-past eleven…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There were thirty-six cases on the Cause List; but scarcely any of public interest. In several the amount sued for was paid into court; some were undefended, and some postponed, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VAGRANCY.—William Bowver, charged with vagrancy, and having no visible means of support, was loard guilty, and sentenced to one month's hard labour in Maitland gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action by George Richard Dibbs and John Campbell Dibbs, carrying on business an Dibbs, Thorne and Co., against James Molison and John Black, carrying on business…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →VIOLATION OF SHIPPING ACT.—John Moore Lamont, master-mariner, was charged with [?] to deliver to the Shipping Master within 24 h[?] of his arrival at Newcastle a list containing the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquest was hold by the district coroner, on Tuesday, at the Supreme Court Hotel, on the body of Catherine Sarah Jacoba, the woman who was murdered on Sunday night, at l06,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—Thomas Buller, Thomas Henderson, and Charles Fretfiach were each find 10b., and 2s. 6d. coats, or 48 hours in the lock-up. for using obscene language in a public thorough…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COOK V. BYRNES AND ANOTHER.—The trial of this case, which had already lasted two days, was resumed and concluded.—It was an action by Simon Cook, a farmer of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday last, at the Durham assizes, Matthew Atkinson was convicted of the murder of his wife, and the unexampled circumstances of the crime can hardly, we presume,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—George Lang was indicted on two charges of obtaining goods under false pretences, viz , obtaining a tarpaulin from Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LARCENY.—John Downey was charged with stealing a firkin of fat the property of Edward Blewit Wolfe, on the 13th instant. Sergeant John Donohoe deposed, that he apprehended the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cmaperdown 12th June.—Yankee Torn is accused of murdering his mate, James Sweeney. He fired four shets into his body, and Sweeney died the next day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Groom v. Reid and another.—An action on charter party; amount claimed, being the penalty for breach, £300. Mr. Dawson for plaintiff; Mr. Ireland, Q.C., and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LICENSE.—A license for a new tavern, the Miners' Arms, Denison-street, Pit Town, was granted on the application of Patrick Murray.—The license of Tattersall's Hotel, corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pokorney v. Newell.—Mr. C. A. Smyth appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Harris, for the defendant. The plaintiff was J. J. Pokorney, a ship-broker. The defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →C. W. Cowburn v. F. Ash.—For work and labour done; verdict for plain tiff, with costs, £7 7s. 6d. Archibald Rodgers v. G. H. Cox.—For goods…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Regan v. Brent and others.—This was an action by John Regan, owner of the ketch "Result," against the Derwent and Tamar Fire and Murine Assurance Company, to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Henry Seymour was charged with breaking into the Junction Inn, Barwood, on the 22nd instant, and stealing therefrom money and other property—Michael O'Connor deposed, that he is a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERATENING LANGUAGE.—Edward Miller, carpenter was charged with using violent and malicious threats to George Alfred Hyde, on the 27th instant. Defendant was bound over in the sum of £20 and ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Toowoomba correspondent of the "Brisbane Courier," in a letter dated 22nd June, writes respecting the murder of Mrs. Curtis ns follows :—…
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