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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
257 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 13
Robert Booth, Peter Dunn, and Thomas Quinlan were convicted of drunkenness, and fined 5s. each, or in default the usual alternatives. MALICIOUS ATTEMPT TO INJERE A COAL-MINE…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Captain James Hamilton, of the whaling barque Sea Breeze, gives the following account of an appalling tragedy committed on board a barque named the Cayalti, sailing under the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Attorney-General and Mr. Darley, instructed by Messrs. Daintry and Chapman, for the plaintiff; and Sir James Martin, Q.C., Mr. Gordon, and Mr. Fisher, instructed by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Joseph Connor and Thomas Dart were fined for drunkenness—the former 5s., and the latter 10s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Frederick Weigart (a foreigner), was charged with being accessory to the murder of Bridget Maria Lynch, at Melbourne, on the 5th instant. Senior-sergeant Conway deposed: About…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Peripatetic philosopher in the Australasian of the 22nd instant, has the following remarks on the murder of the Rev. Mr. Hill:— I have already said a good deal about murder,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mary Janot Morris was convicted of using in decent language, in Bolton-street, and fined 20s. and 4s. Gd. costs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tho native meeting ut Chineroa was actended by the [?] in very large numbers, the Hauhan felon Koreopa, being amongst the number. The mooting also included a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Frederick Weigart was charged, on remand, with being accessory to the Murder of Bridget Maria Lynch, at Melbourne, on the 5th instant. Senior sergeant Conway deposed I produce…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Early to-day, the police discovered, in a public thoroughfare), a back, standing against a wall, containing the dead body of a young woman, in a crouching attitude. There were no wounds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joseph Gunter appeared, on summons, to answer a charge of absenting himself from the hired service of Joseph Chinchen. The complainant deposed to having engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robert Weakly appeared to answer the complaint of Charles Thomas, for that he did. on the 27th of April, without lawful excuse, enter into the enclosed lands of Charles Thomas, of Minim,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robert Smith, James Hector, and Thomas Cassan (a man of color), severally pleaded guilty to having been drunk on the previous day, in the public streets. They were fined 5s, each,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This morning, about a quarter-past one o'clock, as Sergeant Goldrick was going his rounds, he proceeded down Brougham-place, between Pitt and Castlereagh streets, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An action for £9, claimed by plaintiff, for fencing in an allotment of land belonging to the defendant, at the rate of 9s. per rod—the number of rods charged being twenty. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great excitement was caused in our quiet little town this morning, by a report that Warder Spinks was brutally murdered by a confinee, named Nicholas Power, in Windsor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The June sittings of this court commenced on Tuesday, before his Honor Mr.. District Court Judge Dowling. The members of the leal profession present were us follows :—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Elliott, David Box, and William Langlands, were each sentenced to twelve weeks imprisonment in Maitland gaol, for deserting from the barque George Shotton, at Newcastle, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Williams, on remand from the Singleton Bench of Magistrates, was brought before the Court, in custody, charged with stealing two dogs, the property of John Hannell and James…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The adjourned inquest on the body of Elizabeth Moore was resumed this morning, at Braford's Family Hotel; the prisoner, John Mason, was present, Dr. Renwick read the…
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