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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
246 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 13
Three persons were punished for making use of improper language in a public thoroughfare. Breach of Town Police Act. Robert Robinson, charged with suffering a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three drunkards were punished. Breach of Towns Police Act. George Barry, charged with suffering one horse to stray in a public thoroughfare on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Davis, charged with causing the death of one John Simmonds, was remanded to the Coroner'a Court to be dealt with. Drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Carl Jung, the man in custody for shooting a bailiff named Garroway, in the hundred of Caroline, near Mount Gambier, was brought before the local police court on the 5th inst.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—Noticing in one of your paragraphs an allusion to the police being at fault in connection with the recent glaring burglaries, I have thought, with your permission, to say a few…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Cart, well known in this city during the last twenty years, as having born the reputation of one of the smartest skippers sailing out of this port, was convicted of having stolen a pair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Hodge, charged with having, on the 17th instant, at Newcastle, departed from the schooner Lochlee, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to eight weeks' imprisonment in Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One drunkard was punished. Disorderly Conduct. Jeremiah Collins, a man of colour, pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct on board…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One case of drunkenness was dealt with. Desertion. John Braid, for deserting from the barque Formosa, on the 20th instant, was sent to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charles Collins pleaded not guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct on board the British ship Chelsea, on tho 28th ultimo, but was convicted on the evidence, and ordered to pay a fine of 40s,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three drunkards were punished. Deserting his Ship. William Malloy, a lad, charged with having deserted from the ship Moonta, at Newcastle, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mark Foley, charged with having made use of indecent language in Scott-street, on the 3rd instant, pleaded not guilty, but was convicted and ordered to pay a fine of 20s. or to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ellen Andrews and Jessie Brown were charged with riotous conduct, on the night of the 3rd instant, in Watt-street. The case for the presentation was finished, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Rood pleaded not guilty to the charge of assaulting ona Robert Crane. Mr. J. H. O'Meagher appeared for the complainant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Angus Melville pleaded guilty to the above charge. Constable Finnegan deposed that prisoner had come into the court-house drunk and noisy, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two drunkards were punished. Profane Language. John Nelson, convicted of making me of profane language in Hunter-street on the 9th inst.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alexander longmuir, convicted on the 2nd instant, of an assault on the high sea's, was brought up for sentence. Mr. Darley, counsel for the prisoner, briefly addressed the court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One drunkard was punished. Vagrancy. John Thomas, apprehended as a vagrant, having, no visible lawful means of support, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—Notwithstanding the notice that you kindly gave in the Chronicle at the end of last month about the Game Laws being in force, you might think that no person would be so defiant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Dorney, Patrick Carroll, and John Holden, each pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawfully dredging for oysters in the river Hunter, thereby subjecting themselves to a penalty of £20…
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