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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
497 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 25
DRUNKENNESS.—Thomas Jennings was fined 20s. for being drunk and disorderly it a public place, with the alternative of seven days' in gaol. The same defendant was also…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?]FUL EXPOSURE.—William[?] was with wilfully and inde[?]xpos[?] his person in a public plac[?] Waratah, Sunday, the 22nd December. Defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Court was opened yesterday for the first time. The Police Magistrate (H. [?] Smith, Esq.), J. Fletcher, Esq., J. Birre, Esq., and J. Y. Neilson, Esq., J.P.'s, wer[?] on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A THIRD meeting was held yesterday, before Lieut-Col. Maunsell, Substitute Commissioner, in the estate of William Walter Small, of Newcastle, commission agent. One debt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RIOTOUS BEHAVIUR.— John White and Patrick Barrett we each fined 5s or 24 hours in the lockup for behaving rio[?]usly in Hunter-street, a New Year's Eve.—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN adjourned third meeting in the insolvent estate of Edward Lane, of Newcastle, ship chandler, for proof of debts, &c., was held at the Court House yesterday, before Lieut…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE new brigantine Meg Merrilies, which arrived from the Islands last night, brought news of the murder of Captain Moller, who is well known in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DRUNKENNESS.—TWO persons were fined 5s. each with the alternative of 24 hours in the lockup. ASSAULTS.—William Lumley, 21, a seaman,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNKENNESS.—Three persons were dealt with for this offence. INDECENCY. — John O'Sullivan pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent exposure on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the above Police Court, on Monday morning, a man named Duncan Sharp was brought up, on remand from the Newcastle Bench, on a charge of stealing two bottles of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE charge sheet presented an unblemished appearance again on Monday. Three applications were made for hawkers' licenses for the year 1879, which were granted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →STEALING A WATCH.—Thomas Perkins and Thomas Barrett, on remand, were charged the property of one A. Forbes, at Newcastle,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →O'NELL v. STELLARD.-Claim, £1 17s. 6d. Plaintiff and defendant are miners, and worked together as mates in the pit. The amount sued for was for defendant's share of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. — Elizabeth Bowen alias Soo Ti, was fined 20s or seven days in gaol for this offence; the same prisoner for riotous behaviour in the police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—One drunkard was punished. INSULTING WORDS.—Matthew Downie was charged, on summons, with using insulting words to one Arthur Carr, on the 1st inst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Richard Jones, was charged with the above offence, at Tighe's Hill. He was also charged with making use of obscene language. Fined 1s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dr. Ewington v. John Williams, Claim, £2 15s. 6d., for medical attendance and medicine. Verdict for plaintiff for full amount with costs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EVADING A SUMMONS.—Oswald Cleghorn was charged, on warrant, for having evaded a summons issued against him on May 22nd, 1878, for obscene language in a public…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—John Hanley was charged with having been three times convicted of drunkenness within the preceding twelve months, and found behaving in a rtotous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VAGRANCY.—Louis T. Morris, remanded from the previous day on a charge of vagrancy was discharged, on his promising not to hang about the streets again…
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