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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
308 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 16
Robert Argue appeared to answer a charge of using threatening towards Edward Nutter. Mr. Capper appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Nicholson (for Mr. Slater), fur the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS. Five offenders were dealt with. PROHIBITION. Mary Ann Magrath, mother of four…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →George J. Whitman was chained with deserting from the American ship Sooloo, at Newcastle, on the 20th instant. J. H. Shatswell, master of the Sooloo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mathias Mattson was charged with assaulting a man within view of the police. Constable Griffin deposed that about eleven o'clock on Saturday night he was standing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Downey was indicted fur that he, on the 24th of April, fraudulently withheld the sum of £56, being portion of his insolvent estate, with the intention of defrauding his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Margaret Lee pleaded guilty to stealing a shawl, the property of Ellen Andrews, on the 25th inst., and was sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Andrew Nichols, a boy 13 years of age, was charged with committing the above offence at Waratah, and fined 5s. and 2s. 6d. costs. John Drinkwater was charged with using…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Andrew Nichols, thirteen years of age, was convicted of the above offence, and was fined 5s. and 2s. 6d. costs. John Drinkwater pleaded not guilty to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One offender was punished. NEGLECTING TO QUIT. Robert Robinson, called to answer a charge of neglecting to quit and deliver up possession of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Dillon pleaded guily to the above offence, on the 20th inst., and was sentenced to pay a fine of 20s., or to be imprisoned in Maitland gaol for seven days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The usually quiet locality of Schnapper Point was in a state of excitement on Wednesday the 26th ultimo in consequence of a report that a man had been murdered near the big…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHORT v. SHORT.—This was a motion tried before his Honor Mr. Justice Hargrave, to make absolute a decree nisi for the dissolution of marriage of the petitioner, John Henry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eliza R. Willinmson was charged with attempting to drown herself at Newcastle, on the 31st ultimo. Constable Griffin deposed: About twenty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Hyde the lad alluded to in my Lambton news, appeared under a warrent charged with stealing one woollen crimean shirt from the door of Mr. John Macintosh's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Hide was charged with stealing one Crimean shirt, of the value of ten shillings and sixpence, the property of John Macintosh, of Lambton, on the 20th August…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The sittings of the above Court commenced on Monday, September 7th, 1874, before His Honor District Court Judge Wilkinson, at ten o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE September sittings of this court commenced at the court-house, Newcastle, on Monday last before his honor Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson. The barristers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three members of the order of topers were dealt with. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. One offender was dealt with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Claim, £1 10s 4d., for work and labour done. Mr. Nicholson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. C. Readett for the defendant. Mr. Readett, on behalf of defendant, admitted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Johnson was charged with using threating words towards Ezekiel Davis, at Burwood, on the 3rd instant. Mr. Nicholson appeared for the complainant…
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