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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
269 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 14
Three persons were convicted of being drunk in the streets, and were dealt with in the usual way. OBSTRUCTING THE POLICE…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Edward Warburton was brought before the Court, charged with being drunk and disorderly. The offence was proved, and the prisoner was mulcted in the sum of 5s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →David Hamblin was charged with stealing a white poodle dog the property of John Mason, on the 14th instant. Mr. Capper appeared for the defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the 10th of December, a German emigrant brig, named the Wangerland, stranded on the Goodwin Sands, but was, after sustaining serious damage, got off, and ran into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Joseph Musgrove appeared on summons, to answer the charge of using obscene language at Lambton, in a public thoroughfare, on the 15th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three persons pleaded guilty to the charge of drunkenness. One was discharged with a caution, and two were fined—one in 20s , and another in 10s., or the usual alternative in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Margaret Knapp was brought before the court, charged with having no visible means of lawful support. The prisoner, who has frequently been before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Before Mr. Scott, P.M., aud Mr. JTuimell, J.P. GENGE V. BROWN. This was a suit to recover £16 lls. 11d. for goods sold. Verdict for the amount claimed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Denis Gainer appeared on summons to answer the complaint of Robert M'Kenny, who charged him with assaulting and beating him on the 24th instant, at Newcastle. The same defendant was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday, the 1st of March, a report reached the police at Hartley, that a farmer named Patrick M'Aveeney had been robbed and murdered by two men with blackened…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two drunkards were admonished and discharged. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Albert Bussell appeared on summons to answer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Broughton, Patrick Sheedy, and Archibald Hay were each fined 5s., with 2s. 6d. costs, for permitting goods to be placed on the footway in front of their premises in Hunter-street on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John White was charged with stealing an iron last, the property of Alfred Dalby, in Hunter-street, on the 30th ultimo. Mr. Capper appeared for the defence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charles Cropper, .Esq., J.P., held an inquest on view of the body of James Bennett, lying dead in a hut at Sweeny's, Bald Hill Station, in the Orange district, on Saturday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Jennings and his wife Bridget were introduced to his Worship the Police Magistrate by constable Finigan, who averred that he found the loving couple, whom no adverse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Harriet Amy Owen was charged with haying, on the 30th ultimo, stolen a nipple glass, a kerosene lamp, and a quantity of crockery, from one Joseph Hollinshead…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Henry Kay was charged with deserting from the ship Faithful, on the 31st March last. J. Taylor, muster, proved the absence of the prisoner from the ship since the 31st March…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for slander—damages being laid at £10. Mr. Thompson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Capper for the defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The crime of wilful murder does nut, happily, often stain the criminal annals of Victoria, and it is very many yearn since such an outrage was committed in the Bendigo district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Hughes pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly in Scott-street, on the 8th instant, and was fined 40s., or in default seven days imprisonment in Maitland gaol…
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