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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1877

318 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 16

Latest Telegrams. Mail Service between Sydney and Fiji. Case of Poisoning. The Mail Steamer Somerset. Boyd v. Trickett. Daring Burglary in Melbourne. Desperate Encounter Between the Police and Horse-stealers. Portion of a Wreck Found. SYDNEY. Friday, 8.30. p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 4

The mutual Life Association of Australia has taken the large block at corner of George and Wynyard-streets, Sydney, opposite the Band of New South Wales,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 4Th, 1877: (Before Mr. Scott, P.M., and Mr. Smith, J.p.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 June 1877 · page 2

Four person were dealt with for drunkenness. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. One person was fined 10s. for the above…

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Latest Telegrams. Charge of Murder Against the Engineer of the s.s. Somerset. Arrival of More Chinese. Disaster at Sea. Tricket v. Rush.—Second Desposit Made.—Special Trips by Steamers from Newcastle. SYDNEY. Recd. Monday, 7 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 June 1877 · page 2

Alexander Simmons, chief engineer of the s.s. Somerset, was charged at the Water Police Court to-day, with murdering a Chinaman at Sea…

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Charge of Murder on the High Seas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 June 1877 · page 2

THE charge against Alexander Symons, chief engineer of the Torres Straits mail steamer Somerset, of having on the high seas. on the 3rd May last, felociously and wilfuly murdered Ah Sang, a fireman…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, June 6Th, 1n77.(Before A. A. P. Tighe, Esq., P.M., and Messrs. R. W. Moody, and W. Robson, J.P.'s.) ASSAULT

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 June 1877 · page 2

Walter riddle was charged with assaulting and beating Flora Riddle, at New Lambton, on the 24th May. Defendant pleaded not guilty…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, June 6Th, 1877: (Before Mr. Shaw, J.P., and Mr. Brookes, J.p.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 June 1877 · page 2

Two offenders were fined for the above offence. PROTECTION. Peter Sutherland, aged 60, a shipwright,…

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Charge of Murder against Dr. Macartney, M.L.A.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 June 1877 · page 2

A TELEGRAM in Wednesday's Evening News, from Melbourne, states:— With regard to the statement made by the Age yesterday to the effect that Dr…

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Murder and Robbery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 June 1877 · page 3

Joseph T. Miller, aged seventy-two years, an ex-County Commissioner of the adjoining county of Lebanon, was brutally murdered near his residence…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 11th, 1877. (Before Mr. Shaw J. P.,) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1877 · page 2

THERE persons were dealt, with for the above offence. ENTERING AND STEALING. George Allis n was charged with entering…

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Small Dubts' Court. Monday, June 11, 1877. (Before Mr. Scott, P.M., and Mr. Smi h, J P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1877 · page 2

J. Robinson v. J. Kenneally.—Claim, £14 6d., for goods sold Verdict for plaintiff. W. J. Hobbs v. W. Thornton.—Claim, £1 12s, 5d, for goods sold. Verdict for plaintiff…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, June 13Th, 1877. (Before A. A. P. Tighe, Esq., P.M., and R. W. Moody, R. Turton, and W. Robson, Esqs, J.P.'s.) ASSAULT

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 June 1877 · page 2

John Neylan was charged with assaulting a Chinaman, named Fong Ki, at Waratah, on the 9th inst. Defendant pleaded not guilty…

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Latest Telegrams Great Mortality Amongst Cattle. Daring Attempt at Burglary. Death of Constable Blair. Woman Killed on the Victorian Railway. Anti-Immigration Meeting. Arrival of Three Ships from London. SYDNEY, Recd. Wednesday, 8.35 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 June 1877 · page 2

JOHN SULLIVAN, boarding-house manager, of Newcastle, and John Edward Saunders, miner of Bullock Island, are insolvent. Considerable mortality is reported as…

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Newcastle District Court. Wednesday, June 13Th, 1877. (Before His Honor Judge Dowling.) C. LOWELL V. T. PROCTOR

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 June 1877 · page 2

This was, an action to recover £20, for damage done to a cab owned by plaintiff, by a servant of defendant's. Mr. Wisdom instructed by Mr. Wallace,…

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Branxton Police Court. Thursday, June 14, 1877. (Before Mr. J. N. Brooks, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 June 1877 · page 2

William Jones was charged by constable Powell with removing timber from Crown lands, situated near Greta, without a license, and was fined 5s and 8s 4d costs of court and…

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Appeal Court.—This Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 June 1877 · page 2

WE understand that an adjourned Court of Appeal will sit again to-day, for the purpose of disposing of several appeal cases against the municipal rate, the hearing of which was postponed until this date…

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Latest Telegrams Commital for Child Murder. Another Scene in the Assembly. SYDNEY. Recd. Wednesday, 9 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 June 1877 · page 2

TO-DAY being the anniversary of her Majesty's ascension to the throne of England a royal salute was fired from the fortifications…

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Married in Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 June 1877 · page 3

IT is not often that the marriage ceremony is available as an "open sesame'' to the portals of a gaol, but on last Saturday afternoon the good offices of a…

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Branxton Police Court. Thursday, June 21St, 1877. (Before Messrs J. N. Brocks, P.M., T.Drinan and G. Wyndham, J.P's.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 June 1877 · page 2

John Williams, charged by constable Powell with wilfully and obscenely exposing his person at Anvil Creek, on the 5th instant, was found guilty, and…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, June 20Th, 1877. (Before A. A. P. Tighe, Esq., P.M., and R. W. Moody, Esq., J.p.) Insulting Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 June 1877 · page 2

Oswald Glegborn was charged with using insulting language to Mary Ann Punton, at Plattsburg, on the 16th instant. Mary Ann Punton deposed: I am the…

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Newcastle Insolvency Court Thursday, June 21St, 1877. (Before Mr. Scott, P.M., District Commissioner.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 June 1877 · page 2

IN the estate of Patrick Cummerford, of Lambton quarryman, a first and only meeting was held. Insolvent deposed: I am the abovenamed…

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