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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
161 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 9
VAGRANCY.-George H. Munroe apprehended under the Vagrant Act, was brought up and discharged with a caution. ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVER.-George Verney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coroner's inquest, to-day, will probably disclose one of the most frightful and loathsome murders every committed in this colony. A person, named Mr. Kirkpatrick, iron-moulder…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The argument in this case-which occupied two days lost week-was concluded. It was an action for breach of contract, and for damages alleged to have been done to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →INDECENT LANGUAGE.-Anne Buckingham was summoned for this offence.-Case dismissed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.-Joseph Walton and Catherine Salisbury were brought before the court for this offence and discharged. THURSDAY, SEPT 26…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACH OF THE FISHING ACT.-Henry Johnston and Paul Mounter, pleaded guilty to the charge of using fishing nets, for the purpose of getting prawns, one fathom…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.-James Leary was convicted of a breach of the new Drunkards' Punishment Act, and fined 5s., or 48 hours in the lock-up. OBSCENE. LANGUAGE.-James M'Donald was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.-Peter Domes, labourer, was brought before the court in custody, charged with being drunk in Hunter-street. He was fined 20s., or to be imprisoned in the lock-up…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an appeal from the District Court at East Maitland. The action was upon a promissory note in the following terms:-Newcastle, June 20th, 1865…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The inquiry respecting the remains of a human being which were found on the 15th ultimo, on a waste piece of land off Sussex-street, was resumed on Tuesday before the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEGLECT OF DUTY-Richard B. Morrison, Joseph Dwyer, George Carr, and Hans Peterson, were brought before the Court, in custody, for combining together to neglect duty on board the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Weobserve by the last issue of our Newcastle contemporary, that Mrs. Gordon the mother of the little girl who was indecently assauted on the 1st instant, takes exception…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.-John Hendricks, for being drunk in Scott-street, was fined 5s. or 48 hours in the lock-up. OBSCENE LANGUAGE.-Ralph Hall, for making…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Melbourne Age of the 6th instant, says:-Burke, the bushranger, whose daring deeds of robbery under arms have for months past been the cause of wide-spread alarm in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNKENNESS.—Thomas Warren for this offence was fined 10s. or forty-eight hours in the lock-up. ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE.—James Lovie was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALLEGED BREACH OF MASTERS AND SERVANTS ACT.-Joseph Cheesinan appeared on summons to answer to the charge, for that he being the hired servant of one Robinson Rutter, at New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[A report reached Newcastle yesterday, that an old man had been nearly killed by a robber on Campbell's Hill, Maitland, on Thursday night. Not being able to obtain any reliable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday the neighbourhood of Aluckleford was thrown into au extraordinary state of excitement, in consequence of a report that a man residing there had shot his wife, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNK AND DISORADERLY.-John M'Clune, for this offence, was fined 20s., or forty-eight hours' imprisonment.-James Leary was fined 40s., or seven days in Maitland gaol.-Joshua…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The October sittings of this Court commenced at East Maitland yesterday, before his Honor Mr. Justice Faucett. Barristers present:-The Hon. Solicitor-General (R. M…
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