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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
241 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 13
This was an action for false imprisonment The plaintiff was a resident at M aitland, and the 'defendant the coroner for that district. Tho cause of action declared upon was the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Fenwick was charged with unlawfully assanulting and heating his wife, Sarah Fenwick, on the 9th instant. The prisoner was found guilty of the assault, and sentenced to be imprisoned in Maitland gaol, for two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About three or four years ago, there lived on the station of Messrs. Boulton and Bell, at Bergen-op-Zoom, a shepherd, aged upwards of seventy years, of the name of James…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Thompson was brought before the court, in custody, having been arrested by the police for protection. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was suffering from the effects of delirium tremens…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OBSCENS LANGUAGE.—John Ashley pleaded not quilty to making use of obscene language on the 4th of Nov., 1868. From the evidence of the prosecutor in this case—a lad about fifteen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →James Martin, and Christopher Rook were convicted of being drunk in public places in the city. Martin was fined 20s. or seven days in Maitlandgaol; Rook, 10s. or three days in the lock-up…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Herald, of Tuesday, contains an interesting article copied from the London Society, from which we make the subjoined extract, bearing more particularly on the "silent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Henry De Potter was charged with deserting his lawful wife, Jane De Potter, leaving her without lawful means of support. At the request of the complainant, the warrant under which the prisoner was arrested, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action to recover the sum of £7 10s., balance, on a cargo of coal. The plaintiff, by his agent, George Waddell, said he received instructions to sell 151 tonn of coal to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Richard ltieh, nml John Willlami, wero each fined 5b. for being drunk in tbe street*, on the 11th instant. John Hoino was fined 40*., or 7 days,In gaol, for being drunk and disorderly, on the samo day. A similar…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charge of Assaulting and Wounding a Steward. Captain Drinkwater, and Oscar Stone, of the American barque Sarah Ann, appeared before the court, on bail, to answer a charge of assaulting and wounding one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following is an account of an attack at Okatuka, dated Head-quarters, Wairoa, Nov. 7th:—"A force of 350 Europeans and natives made an unsuccessful attack on the position of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Robert Allan pleaded guilty to violently assaulting and beating one Mary Draper, at Newcastle on the 23rd instant. The Bench asked what the circumstances of the case…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the 5th instant, a magisterial inquiry was held at Tuena, on view of the body of John Moss, of Cook's Yale, then lying dead. Senior-constable Cotter, of Tuena, deposed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sarsh Pierce was charged with having been drunk in Newcomen-street, on the 25th instant, She was convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of 5s., or, in default to be imprisoned in the lockup for twenty-four hours,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twelve of his peers, sworn to give a verdict according to the evidence, have recorded it as their solemn belief that Patrick James Whalen is guilty of the murder of the late Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Elias Dronadale, pleaded guilty to this offence, and was sentenced to pay a fine of 20s. or seven days in Maitland gaol. William Ellis, for the same offence, was fined 5s., and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is with feelings of the deepest regret that we have to record a murderous assault, perpetrated on Mr. A. W. Manning, Under-Colonial Secretary, yesterday. The news that such an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →G. Gee was charged by T. Petitt with making use of obscene language to him in a public place, on the 21st November. The parties in this case are neighbours. It appears an ill-feeling has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →If a wife has the courage to defend herself, even with an implement that may in the struggle become a deadly weapon, and if the effect on her chastiser be to shorten life, a jury will…
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