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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
269 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 14
James Campbell was charged with shooting a fowl, the property of Michael Torpic, at the Folley. Defendant, a lad about ten years old, pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two inebriates were brought before the court and dealt with in the usual way. WIFE DESERTION. Archibald Black was charged with deserting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following case, tried at Grafton, has caused much excitement in that district:— Thomas Hutchings was indicted for that he did, on the 20th February, 1873, at South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a suit to recover £5 1s , for work and labour done. Mr. Brown appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Capper for the defence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two offenders were reprimanded and discharged, and another discharged. DESERTION FROM SHIP. Duncan Kerrick was charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The principal actor in the tearful tragedy which was enacted on board the ship Rifleman, on the 16th of March last, was hanged within the precincts of Darlinghurst gaol, at thirteen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an application before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Hargraves and Mr. Justice Cheeke, made on Monday, 30th June, for a prohibition to stay all proceedings…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four inebriates were brought before the court, charged with being drunk. One was fined 10s., and the others were admonished and discharged. BREACH OF THE PUBLICAN'S ACT…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One drunkard was admonished and discharged. ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE. John Burns and John Jordan, seamen of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was a motion, tried on Friday, July 4th, before Sir Alfred Stephen (Chief Justice), Mr. Justice Cheeke, and Mr. Justice Faucett, upon rule nisi under the 99th section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There were five inebriates brought before the court. Two were fined 5s. each, one (a female, and frequent visitor at the Police Court) was fined 20s., and two were fined 10s. each, or the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William A. Williams, who pleaded guilty to the charge of being absent without leave from the ship Coronn on the 9th instant, was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment in Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three inebriates were reprimanded and discharged. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. John Buckley, John Reedy, and Mary Ann…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One inebriate was fined 5s. or twenty-four hours in the lockup ; another, who had not been there on any former occasion, was admonished and discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Capper appeared for the the complainant, an Mr. Slater for the defendant. This was a suit to recover £7 5s. 3d., for refreshments supplied to defendant on the order of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five drunkards were brought before the Court, all of whom pleaded guilty. Two were discharged, one was fined l0s. and two 5s. each, or the usual alternative in the loukup…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Before Mr. Scott, P.M., and Mr. Hannell, J.P. DRUNKENNESS. There was nine inebriates brought before the Court. Seyen of those were discharged, one was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was a suit to recover £3 3s. 6d., for work and labour done. This case had been adjourned from the previous sitting for the certificate of Mr. M'Kay,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City Coroner held an inquest at nine o'clock this morning, at the Benevolent Asylum, Pitt-street, south, in view of the body of a female infant, then and there lying…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →James Cooper pleaded guilty to the charge of using obscene language, and was fined 10s., or forty-eight hours in the lockup. Henry Bosser was found guilty of a similar…
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