The Waratah Police Magistrate's Salary
MERIT surely deserves recognition, and it is not too much to claim for it, in addition, ample remuneration. For while faithful services cannot be bought, and…
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Courts & crime, 1877
318 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 16
Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 25Th 1877. (Before Mr. Scott, P.m.) Drunkenness
Eight offenders were dealt with. UNLAWFULLY WOUNDING. John Corcoran, aged 62, and described as a labourer, was charged with unlawfully…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Small Debts Court. Monday, June 25Th, 1877. (Before Mr. H. Scott, P.M., and Mr. Wm. Brooks, J.P.) c. Bowman V Robert Harwood
Claim, £8 10s, for wages due, and defendant's failing to give fourteen days' notice of dismissal. Mr. Thompson appeared for plaintiff, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Insolvency Court. Thursday, June 21st. (Before the Chief Commissioner.)
Sir George Innes, instructed by Mr. Way on behalf of Thomas Macgregor and Charles Grant Macgregor, moved to make absolute a rule nisi for the compulsory sequestration of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, June 29Th, 1877. (Before Mr. Scott, P.M., and Mr. Bro[?]kes, J P.) Breach of the Coal Mines Regulations
William Turnbull was charged by Thomas Lewis with a br[?]ach of the Coal Mines Regulation Act of 1876. Mr. Thompson appeared for complainant,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Branxton Police Court. Thursday, 28Th June, 1877. (Before J. N. Brooks, Esq., P.M., and George Wyndhum and T. Drinnam, Esqs., J.P.'s)
Ellen King, allas M'Kinne, allas Steamboat, was charged by Constable Powell with being a common prostitute, a behaving in a riotous manner at Anvil Creek on the 28th May last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, July 4Th, 1877. (Before Mr. Scott, P.M., and Mr. Brookes, J.p.) Drunkenness
Two persons were fined each 5s, for being drunk. OBSCENCE LANGUAGE. One offender non ordered to pay a fine of 20s., or be imprisoned for 14 days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, July 4Th, 1877. (Before A. A. P. Tighe, Esq. P.M., R.W. Moody Esq., J.P., and W. Robson, Esq., J.p.) Obscene Language
Four offenders were fined in sums varying from 5s to 20s each, with costs, for the above offence. ASSAULT. David Jones, charged with assaulting and beating…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Branxton Police Court. Monday, 2Nd July, 1877. (Before R. Wyndham, Esq., J.p.) Obscene Language
Thomas McDowell was brought up in the custody of constable Powell, charged with making use of obscene language at Illalong on the 30th June last. Prisoner…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thursday, 5Th July 1877. (Before J. N. Brooks, Esq., P.m.) Assault
John Thompson, on remand, charged by Constable Powell with assault, pleaded guilty, and was discharged with a caution, in consequence of the good character he…
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THE Madras Standard, of April 25th reports the following as the facts of a case lately tried by the Session Court of Bellary, in which eight men were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shocking Murder at Braidwood
ON Monday evening last, Mrs. Wee Wing, the Chinese doctor's wife, of Jembaicumbene, was found face downwards in a shallow waterhole near her residence, the Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Lambton Court-House
THE Police Magistrate at Waratah has received a letter from the Hon G. A. Lloyd, stating that the Court-houses at Lambton and Wallsend would be enlarged, as requested by a deputation which waited…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, 11th JULY, 1877. (Before the Police Magistrate, and Mr. Brookes, J.p.) Drunkenness
Three persons were dealt with for drunkenness. INDECENT EXPOSURE. Michael Innis was charged with indecently exposing his person in Watt-street, on the 10th inst., and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, July 11, 1877. (Before A. A. P. Tighe, Esq., P.M., and R. Turton, Esq., J.p.) Stealing
James Wilson was charged with stealing one bottle of gin, valued at bs., the property of Joseph Hunter, at Lambton, on the 10th inst. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to seven…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, July 16Th, 1877. (Before the Police Magistrate and Messrs. H. A. Smith and Robson, J.P.'s) STEALING
Ann Johnson was charged with stealing a tin of herrings, of the value of 3s. 6d., from the shop of David Miller, of Hunter-street. Prisoner pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Alleged Murder on the High Seas
IN the case of Alexander Symons, chief engineer of the mail steamer Somerset, who was recently committed for trial by the bench at the Water Pollen Court on a charge of murdering a China,…
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At the Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. Scott, P.M, George Enright, who was found by the police suffering from excessive drinking, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Sticking-up Case. Desperate Resistance to the Police ! One Robber Fatally Shot !
THE following is a detail of the sticking-up case at Bendemeer, a short account of which we published in Monday's issue. Some consternation was caused in town…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Waratah Police Court. Thursday, July 19, 1877 (Before A. A. P. Tighe, Esq, P.m.) Charge of Rape
James Cox, aged 19 years, was charged in custody (remanded from Sydney) with attempting to commit a rape upon Margaret Coxhead, at Wallsend, on the 25th of June…
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