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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
252 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 13
Twenty-one cases were heard and adjudicated upon, most of them being for goods sold and delivered. SLANDER.—D. SMITH AND WIFE V. G. REDMAN…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We are indebted to W. H. Mullen, Esq., for the following copy of a petition to his Excellency the Governor, in favour of a new court-house at West Maitland, which has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Henry Young, charged with being absent without leave from, the barque Verulam, on the 16th inst., was ordered to be sent on board at the request of the master…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Glen Innes Police Office, on the 30th July, before C. W. F. Addison, Esq., P.M., Michael Morahan, William Willburne, George Pyne, John Cockayne, Jas. Griffith, and Thos…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charles Tucker was charged with stealing five shillings in silver, the property of William Cork, innkeeper, on the 15th inst., at Minmi. Constable Smith proved the arrest of prisoner…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Glen Innes Police Office, on the 30th July, before C. W. F. Addison, Esq., P.M., Michael Morahan, William Willburne, George Pyne, John Cockayne, Jas. Griffith, and Thos…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are indebted to W. H. Mullen, Esq., for the following copy of a petition to his Excellency the Governor, in favour of a new court-house at West Maitland, which has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Henry Young, charged with being absent without leave from the barque Verulam, on the 16th inst., was ordered to be sent on board at the request of the master…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four drunkards were convicted of being drunk and disorderly—two (one a female) were ordered to pay a penalty of 20s., or seven days' confinement in Maitland gaol, one to pay a penalty of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John K. O'Meagher sued Thomas Horsfield for £9, amount of costs due to him for conducting a case in the District Court. It appears that the defendant had instructed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Atkinson was charged by Robert Beath with assaulting him, on the 26th inst., at Lambton. Robert Beath deposed: On Saturday last,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four drunkards were convicted of being drunk and disorderly—two (one a female) were ordered to pay a penalty of 20s., or seven days' confinement in Maitland gaol, one to pay a penalty of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrible tragedy took place in ISermon- | dsey, on Sunday, aman named William Edward ! Taylor having murdered the woman he was living with as his wife, and also a child aged five years, besides inflicting fearful injaries on a boy aged thirteen-nnder circumstances of peculiar atrocity-the criminal eventually having made a determined attempt to destroy himself. The man has been known for a long time past as a thorough desperado. He is a wholesale dealer in old iron and other metale,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Burns was charged with stealing a silver hunting watch, the property of Maurice Carey, on the 16th ultimo. Constable Robinson, deposed : On Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One drunkard was fined 5s., or twenty-four hours in the lock-up. ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE. Four seamen were brought before the Court,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Robert Campbell Cameron and William Bell were brought up, on remand from the previous day, charged with stealing £14 9s. 6d. from the person of John McKay, at Newcastle, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Catherine Walters, for making use of profane language in Watt-street, was sentenced to pay a line of £5, or be imprisoned for three months. Thomas Darnany, charged with a similar…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The inquest on the body of Mary O'Rourke, the woman murdered in a house in Punch's-lane, off Little Bourke-street, on Tuesday last, was held on the 22nd ultimo, by Dr. You,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Robert Campbell Cameron and William Bell were brought up, on remand from the previous day, charged with stealing £14 9s. 6d. from the person of John McKay, at Newcastle, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Harris and Ann Harris, on bail, were indicted for having on 1st May, at Derriong, assaulted one Barbara Alice Malholland, whereby actual bodily harm was occasioned to…
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