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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
257 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 13
Arthur Stoele was fined 10s. for using obscene language in Scott-street, on the 3rd inst. DRUNKENNESS. John Arche, and Michael Kennedy, were each…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lauritz Hartman was charged wite stealing 15 fathoms of 2½ or 3 inch Manilla rope, and one Manilla rope fender, the property of Captain Cummings, the master of the ship Hydra, on the 22nd June…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charles Jewell, Thomas Williams, and Thomas Kelly, were charged with stealing a boat, of the value of £6, the property of Archibald Rodgers, at Newcastle, on the 6th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Henry Whyte was charged with refusing to pay Peter Henry Bucksaith £13, being monies due to him. The Bunch gave a verdict in favour of complainant for £7 18s, 9d…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fanny Cook was brought up for protection. She stated that she was on her way to West Maitland, where her daughter resided, but had not sufficient funds to pay her fare. Mr. Scott…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The complainant sued the defendant for £4 10s., for wages due to him, fur work and labor done. The defendant swore that the complainant had never been actually employed by him…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lauritz Hardman was charged, on remand with stealing 15 fathoms of Manilla rope the property of one Cummings, at Newcastle, on the 22nd June, and was again remanded for eight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—A person signing himself "J.R.," meaning, I presume, Jack Robertson—asks if is true that the Citizebs' Vigilance Committee have been refused the use of the Court-house,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tasmanian papers report the commission of a deliberate murder under the following circumstances [?] named Patrick Kieley, a plough [?] the service of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the matter of the insolvent estate of John Campbell Dibbs and of George Richard Dibbs. On the motion for the release of the above estate, as 20s. in the pound had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →—Brookes, an articled seaman on board the ship Avon, was brought before the court, in custody, charged with assaulting and beating Captain Macbeth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is the evidence taken at the Coroner's inquiry, at Chiltern, Victoria, into the cause of death of Elizabeth Smith. The man Smith, her husband (who was arrested),…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →James Tait pleaded guilty to using obscene language in Hunter-street, on the 20th inst., and was fined 10s., or, in default, five days in faol. DRUNKENNESS…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Considerable excitement was caused in Bathurst on Saturday last, by the report, that the convict Pearson had nearly made his eacape from his legal custodians, by breaking out of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Jacobs, Joseph Cowie, and Robt. Haddon were each fined lOs. for being drunk. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Timothy Ahern and John Stevens were each…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A claim for £2 1s., for goods sold and delivered. The complainants did not appear. The defendant admitted 30s. of the dobt, and the Bench gave judgment for the plaintiffs for £1 1s.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Honry Bruniges pleaded guilty to permitting [?] to be used in his licensed house, the [?] Inn, at an unlawful hour, oh Sunday [?] and was fined 40s. and 3s. 6d. costs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Benjamin Singleton was charged, on remand, with having stolen a quantity of hay on the 28th inst., of the value of 2s. From the evidence of Mr. Rancland, it appeared that the prisoner had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →David Davis and John Matthew pleaded guilty to the crime of drunkenness, and were each fined 5s. James Burns was convicted of the double,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two persons pleaded guilty to being drunk one was fined 10s., and the other was admonished and discharged. DISORDERLY CONDUCT ON BOARDSHIT…
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