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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1873

269 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 14

Newcastle Police Report. Saturday, December [?]3Th, 1873. Lunacy

Miners' Advocate and Northumberland Recorder · Saturday 20 December 1873 · page 3

Thomas Evans, a mine[?] living near Waratah, brought to Newcastle for protection, and charged with being of unsound mind. Evans had to be kept in the cell, as it was…

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Waratah Police Court. Monday, December 22, 1873. (Before Messrs. Scott, P.M., J. J. Hill, F. J. Shaw, and R. Turton, J.P.'s) ASSAULT

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 23 December 1873 · page 3

John Dewhurst, was charged with unlawfully assaulting and beating one David Dewhurst, at Hanbury, on the 16th December last. Mr. Wallace appeared for the defendant…

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Newcastle Police. Saturday, December 20Th, 1873. Before Mr. Scott, P.M. Drunk and Disorderly

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 23 December 1873 · page 3

Charles Warn, seaman, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street, Newcastle, on the night of the 20th instant. Constable William Header, of the Water…

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Execution of Jarvis, for the Orange Road Murder

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 25 December 1873 · page 3

Henry Vincent Jarvis suffered the extreme penalty of the law, within the walls of Darlinghurst gaol, on Tuesday, for the murder of James Muggeridge, carrier, on the Orange and…

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Newcastle Police. Tuesday, December 23Rd, 1873. BEFORE Mr. Scott, P.M. DRUNKENNESS

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 25 December 1873 · page 2

Four delinquents appeared before the Court; one was fined 20s., or seven days; a second, being an old offender and considered as incorrigible, was sent to gaol for two months; and…

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Waratah. Police Report. (Before Mr. Scott, P.M., and Messrs. J. J. Hill, F. J. Shaw, and R. Turton, J.P.'s) ASSAULT

Miners' Advocate and Northumberland Recorder · Saturday 27 December 1873 · page 2

John Dewhurst was charged with assaulting and beating David Dewhurst, on the 16th instant, at Hanbury. Mr. Wallace appeared for the defendant…

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Execution of Jarvis for the Orange Road Murder

Miners' Advocate and Northumberland Recorder · Saturday 27 December 1873 · page 3

HENRY VINCENT JARVIS suffered the extreme penalty of the law, within the wall of Darlinghurst gaol, on Tuesday last for the murder of James Muggeridge, carrier on the Orange…

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Small Debts Court. Monday, December 29Th, 1873

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 30 December 1873 · page 2

Before Mr. H. Scot, P.M., and Mr. Hannell, J.P. LOTT V.A. FIELDHOUSE.—ADJOURNED CASE. This was a suit to recover £4 3s., balance of account for bread delivered. The original…

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Newcastle Police. Friday, December 26Th, 1873. Before Mr. Scott, P.M. Absent Without Leave

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 30 December 1873 · page 2

Thomas Jones and James Carroll pleaded guilty to the charge of being absent without leave from the barque Sea Gull, and were sent on board…

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