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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
246 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 13
James Tread well was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment in the lock-up, for deserting from the British barque Vanguard, at Newcastle on the 29th instant, to which offence he pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Margaret Lee was convicted of having a goose in her possession supposed to have been stolen, and also to being a vagrant and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Caroline Douglas, alias Watson, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in Maitland gaol, she having no visible means of subsistence. Mary Bridekirk (an old offender) was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thomas Parker was charged with attempting to commit an unnatural offence, on the person of Andrew Nicoll, at Newcastle, on Saturday, the 8th instant. Mr. Henry O'Meagher appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The people of this town were horrified on Wednesday morning, by the report that during the previous night, three persons had been barbarously and brutally murdered at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Parker was charged, on remand, with attempting to commit an unnatural offence upon one Andrew Nicoll, early on Sunday morning last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Smith was charged with stealing a quantity of Muntz metal bolts, and ten sheets of Muntz metal, the property of Hugh Walker, at Stockton, on the 8th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One man was fined for allowing an animal to stray in the public streets. SABBATH DESECRATION. Jacob Audet was charged with a breach of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Richard Anderson was brought up for protection. He was ordered to be forwarded to Maitland to enable him to get into an Hospital. CHARGE OF DESECRATING THE SABBATH…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One drunkard was fined. SELLING ON THE SABBATH. Edward Leo was charged with keeping his shop open on the Sabbath for the sale of food…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joseph McGuinness was charged with unlawfully deserting his wife, Eliza McGuinness, and leaving her without means of support. No appearance of parties…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action brought by the Owners of the late screw steamship Xanthe, 579 tons register, with engines of 95 horse power, from South Shields, with coals, for Gibraltar,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday afternoon, about half past one o'clock, a most determined and nearly successful attempt was made by three prisoners to escape from the Melbourne gaol. A number…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Kirk charged with having been drunk, was fined 5s., or ordered to be imprisoned for 24 hours. SUMMONS CASES…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Adelaide journal contains the following statement:—"In our last issue we extracted from the Register a paragraph relating to the death of a man named John Lines (or Lyons),…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →James Fitzaimmons, charged with tho above offence, pleaded guilty, and was ordrred to pay a fine of 7s. or to bo imprisoned for seven days. RESISTING THE POLICE…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held at Dry Creek, Kilmore, (on the Melbourne and Sydney Road,) touching the death of a woman whose death in said to have been caused under horrifying…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Edward Breyen and Isaac Jacobs wore punished aa drunkards. UNNATURAL OFFENCE. James John Whiting, charged with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jeremiah Driscoll and George Gascoign, were punished as drunkards. Obscene Language. Frederick Shoolea, charged with having made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Peter Johnson charged with disobedience to lawful commands on board the steamer Patterson on the 9th instant, was ordered to be imprisoned in Maitland gaol, with hard labour, for one…
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