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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
241 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 13
Thomas Nicholson was charged with obtaining a watch, the property of one Tom Watt, by false pretences. The prosecutor being sworn said : Last Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The June sittings of the above Court were commenced on Monday, the lst instant, before his Honor, Judge [?]-farland. The cause list contained sixty-two cases, two of which had stood over from the previous sittings…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action to recover the sum of £35s., for work and labour done, by the plaintiff in his professional capacity an a surveyor. Plaintiff being sworn, said he had performed the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Thomas, in custody, appeared to answer the charge of resisting the police in the execution of their duty on the 30th of May. Constable Griffin sworn, said About a quarter to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The prisonor (Thompson) was again placed in the dock on the charge preferred against him on the previous day. Mr. Mullen again appeared for the defence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Thomas, in custody, was charged with using [?]hscene language in Newcomen-street, on the 30th of May. He was convicted and final [?]. The smallness of the tine was on account of the prisoner having been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jacob Brown, miner, was charged with using insulting words, in Hunterstreet, to Constable Woods, He was convicted and fined 10s., or forty-eight hours in the lock up…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alexunder M. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday evening last, about a dozen persona assembled in the Court-house, in connection with the movement for putting the road from Newcastle to Lambton and Wallsend in a state…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →J. and A. Brown appeared, on summons, to answer tho charge of refuting to pay the sum of £7, due to Robert Smith. Mr. Mullen, who appeared for the complainant, stated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clu[?]rge of Excess of duty on the part of a Constable. Charles Griffin appeared on remand, on sum[?] to answer the charge of exceeding hit duty, by striking one William Thomas violently on the head,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →R. Jacob t. J. Fountain. No appearance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir Permit me to call attention to the disgraceful waste of time which takes place almost every day in our police court. Our worthy Police Magistrate, ext[?]mable enough in many respects, appears to think that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FURIOUS RIDDING Henry Dougherty, Edward Moran, and John Lunny, pleaded not guilty to a charge of furious riding on the 11th June, in William-street. Constable Levick, proved to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A claim for rent, amounting to £119s. Verdict for plaintiff for the full sum. Alcock v. Audet. A claim for £4 17s., for goods sold and delivered. Verdict for plaintiff fur the full amount…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ernest Lindholm pleaded guilty to deserting from the ship john Nicholson, at New[?] on the 23rd May, and was sent[?] to eight weeks imprisonment in Maitland gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eliza Connolly appeared on summona to answera charge of having com[?] wilfuland corrupt parjury in the police court of Newcastle, on the 1st of April last, in the matter of an application for a transfer of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The news of the attempted assassination of Prince Alfred at Sydney reached London on the 24th ult., at midnight. The attempted assuss[?]ation of Prince Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →James Orr, miner, on bail, appeared to answer a charge of being drunk in Boltonstreet, on the 28th instant. The defendant was convicted and fined 10s. or forty-eight hours in the lookup.—James Cooper,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is much to be regretted that the natives at the south of this Province have again commenced their atrocities by murdering, in cold blood, some of the European settlers near…
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