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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
246 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 13
Two drunkards were punished. Suit for Wages. Jones Jones was sued by Robert Jones to show, why he should not pay the sum of £4 1s. wages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is our painful duty to record the discovery of the perpetration of another murder in this district, so shortly after the dreadful tragedy at the Forest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →James M'Kie, charged with making use of obscene language in Scott-street on the 20th instant, was found guilty, and ordered to pay a fine of 10s., or, as an alternative, to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →George Taylor, charged with having, during the month of September last, stolen a spirit level, the property of one James Fraser, pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Margaret Murphy and Eve Brown, on remand, wore charged with stealing £2 09., a bunah of keys, and a knife, the property of one William Bates, at Newcastle, on the 21st instant. From…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Patrick was charged, under the 3rd suction of the Vagrant Act, with obtaining the sum of 10s. by f alia pretences, from one Johnny a Madruassee, at Newcastle, on the 22nd inst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Syme appeared to answer an information, chanting him with having threatened to knock the face off Louisa Norman, at the same time holding a pitch-fork over her head, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Although punctuality is said to be the "soul of business," there is amongst us a class, of persons who are far too punctual in their mode of transacting the peculiar style of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four persona were punished for drankenness. Obscene Language. Three persona were punished for making use of obscene language…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bourke correspondent of the Dubbo Dispatch writes:—"Timothy Keating wan again brought up to hear the evidence of Edward Rich and James Scllers, the two men who were at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Robert Pool, charged with having been illegally on the premises of the Industrial School for an unlawful purpose on the 6th instant, at 2 a.m., pleaded that he had lost his way…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two persons were punished for drunkenness. Breach of Town's Police Act. Sydney Casey, for suffering a pig to stray in Darby-street, on the 7th instant, was find 5s.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Hamilton, on March 24, Thomas Pollock Muirhead, of the Armed Constabulary, was charged with shooting one J. B. Gilfillan of the same force, on the 20th instant, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Patrick Geary, alias John Geary, and his wife, Margaret Geary, were brought before the Colac Police Court on Wednesday, charged with the murder of Thomas Brookhouse, at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →John Johnson, charged with having made use of obscene language in a public place at Stockton, in the district of Newcastle, on the lOth inst., pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Williams, one of the foregoing drunkards, for assaulting constable Vickers and constable Williams, was ordered to be imprisoned for one month for each offence in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Australasian of the 8th inst., gives the following particulars of two charges dealt with in the City Court at Melbourne:— A thief concealed himself in the Public…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two persons were punished for drunkenness. Assanlting a Chief Officer, Thomas Holmes charged with having unlawfully assaulted and beaten one John Williams,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Marris, coroner for the district, met a jury at the Green Man Inn, Stallingborough, on February 20th, to inquire into the circumstances attending the murder of Surah…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A moat shocking murder was committed at Gaffeney's Creek on the night of Friday, the 24th ultimo, or on the morning of Saturday, the 25th…
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