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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
308 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 16
Nicholas Foran, well known at this Police Court, was charged with using obscene language in Bolton-street on the 9th instant, and sentenced to pay a fine of £4, or to be imprisoned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Read, charged with being absent without leave from the British ship Argonaut, at Newcastle, on the 10th instant, pleaded guilty, and was ordered to be sent on board…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The tranquility of Hackney-wick and South Hackney was sadly disturbed on May 6, by the report that a dreadful tragedy had been enacted at Homer-road, which is a short…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lizzie Sinclair, a young woman, was charged before Mr. Newton, with stealing a sovereign, the property of Mr. Solomon Salamon, leather-merchant, Mile End-road, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three inebriates were disposed of STEALING. William Proctor was charged with stealing half a sovereign, the property of William John…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following police report has been in type, but unavoidably hold over. BREACH OF THE PUBLICAN'S ACT. Edward Thomas was charged with that he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DISOBEDIENCE OF LAWFUL COMMANDS. John Joseph, charged with wilful disobedience of lawful commands on board the British schooner Mera, at Newcastle, on the 16th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACH OF THE PUBLICANS ACT. James Hibbard was charged with permitting brandy to be drunk on his licensed premises on the 5th inst. by one Edwin Hannell, a person not then being a lodger or inmate, or a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Invercargill, on 3rd July, John Brennan was brought up, on remand, and charged with having, on the 15th day of June last, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One drunkard was dealt with. BREACH OF THE TOWNS POLICE ACT. Patrick Kennedy, on remand, was charged with allowing two goats to stray in Bull-Street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Before Messrs. Hill, Turton, and Robson (of Wollongong) J.Ps. The appeal courts for Waratah and Lambton were postponed at the request of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One of the great requirments of the day is a little book that may be carried in the pocks like an official list of cab fares, distinctly description of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Waratah and Lambton Company's appeal cases were postponed to the 26th I have been kindly favoured by Mr. R. Turton with a view of the splendid casket…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Elizebth Payne alias Calvert, was charged that she did, in April, 1874, marry John Calvert, her husband, Stephen Payne, being still alive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joseph Cocolo, charged with being absent without leave, from the barque Claudine, on the 32nd inst. pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven days imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Downey was charged on Friday, before Mr. C. Les[?], J.P. with having, after the sequestration of his estate, being at the time an insolvent under the Act, alienated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Knowles, charged with disorderly conduct on board the barque Prospero, at Newcastle, on the 25th instant, pleaded guilty. Mr. Capper appeared for the prosecution…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a suit for £4 10s. 6 1/2d. Plaintiff allowed £1 to be taken off, and a verdict was given for the balance. MARY CLOUGH (by her next friend, Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three drunkards were punished. DESERTION FROM SIHP. Edward Randon, churned with deserting from the British ship Auriga, at Newcastle, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →George V, Steewe, Thom[?]s Holland, and John Alick, charged without being absent without leave from the ship Chrysomone, at Newcastle, on the 28th instant, pleaded guilty, and were ordered…
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