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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
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Six persons were punished for this offence. PROFANE LANUGUAGE. James Bogan, to using profane language in Hunter-street on the 5th instant, pleaded guilty,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Peter Duffy, in custody, was brought before the Court, charged with stabbing and wounding one Edward Coulter, on the 16th April, at Cooranbong, with intent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Rolf was charged with having solicited alms in a public street, at Newcastle, on the night of the 7th inst. Prisoner pleaded not guilty; he remembered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS AND OBSCENE LANGUAGE. There were six persons fined for drunkenness, and two for making use of obscene language. ASSAULT…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONE offender was dealt with for drunkenness. REFUSING TO PAY HIS FARE. John Lawson was charged with refusing to pay his fare by the steamship Coonanbara, from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the Cooranbong Police Court on Thursday, before Messrs. Reeno, P.M., and Healey, J.P., the final examination of witnesses took place in the case of be Crown v. Duffy, for cutting and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE next sittings of the District Court will be hell on Monday, 10th June, and the last day for issuing plaints will be Tuesday, 28th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One drunkard was punished. DISOREDIENCE. Thomas Walker pleaded guilty to refusing duty on board the barque Khorasan at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alexander Brown, for using profane language on the 10th inst., was fined 10s. or 48 hours. OBSTRUCTING THE FOOTPATH. Daniel Featherstone was fined 5s. and 2s. 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Six inebriates were punished. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Briarly Bailey was charged with using obscene language in Hunter-street, on the 9th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two devotees at the shrine of Bacchus were humbled. REFUSING TO PAY HIS FARE. Samuel Jones was brought up on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Antonio Balle, on remand, was again brought before the court, on a charge of embezzling moneys whilst in the public service of Victoria. Sub-Inspector Thorpe produced the warrant, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. JOHN DONOHOE, whose appointment to the charge of the Sydney Water Police rice the late Sub-Inspector Ferris we lately recorded, took his departure for his new sphere of labour by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two drunkards were punished. UNLAWFUL EXPULSION. The charge against Alexander Stevenson, for unlawfully expelling and putting out one Wm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The above Council held a Friendly Appeal Court yesterday, when the following appeals were considered:—A. Peedom £1 1s. 7d., reduced to 14s. 4d.; William Bower 4s., reduced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thomas Davies, landlord of the Bee Hive Hotel, Plattsburg, was charged by Constable Grennan with wilfully allowing dice to be played in his licensed house on the 6th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No fewer than seven cases had to be postponed at the police court yesterday, in consequence of their being no second magistrate in attendance. About half an hour was spent in trying to "run…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three offenders were dealt with. ILLEGALLY IN POSSESSION. Stephen B. Fahey, a boy about 14 years of age, was charged with having a quantity of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →William Scott was ordered to be confined in the lockup for 48 hours for being absent without leave from the British ship Lord of the Isles. DISORDERLY CONDUCT…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thirteen persons were fined in various sum[?] for being drunk, and drunk and disorderly. VAGRANCY. Elizabeth Rolfe, for being a common vagrant,…
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