Newcastle Police Court
AT the police-court on Saturday, before A. Brown and E. A. White, Esqs., J.P.'s, two persons were fined 5 each for being drunk, James Garside 20s or seven days for using…
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Courts & crime, 1879
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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, 2Nd June, 1879. (Before Lieut.-Col. Maunsell, P.M., and G. Tully, Esq., J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Four persons were fined 5s. each for this offence, two 10s each, and Jane Severs 20s or seven days. OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—Joseph M'Callum,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Murder Near Ararat
ABOUT 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon the inhabitants of Ararat were startled by a report that a most cold-blooded murder had been perpetrated close to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, 3Rd June, 1879. (Before Lieut-Colonel Maunsell, P.M.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Three persons were fined 5s. each for this offence. PROFANE LANGUAGE.—Annie Rouse was fined 5s. or 24 hours for behaving in a riotous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, June 3, 1879. (Before H. A. Smith, Esq., P.M.)
MICHAEL SHORT, on remand, was called to answer a charge of stealing a bottle of [?]braudy, the property of Luke Smith, at Charlestown, on the 30th May. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lambton Small Debts Court. Tuesday, June 3, 1879. (Before H. A. Smith, Esq.)
Phillips v. Payne.—Claim £6 14s 5½d, for hay sold and delivered. Mr. O'Keefe appeared for plaintiff. Mr. Wallace for defendant. The defence was that the hay was bad…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, 4Th June, 1879. (Before Lieut. Col. Maunsell, P.M., and W. K. Lochhead, Esq., J.P.)
VAGRANCY.—Mary Bridekirk, a very old and incorrigible criminal, was again brought before the court, on a charge of having no lawful visible means of support, or fixed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Plattsburg Police Court. Thursday, June 5Th, 1879. (Before Mr. Smith, P.M., and Mr. Birrell, J.P.)
MUNICIPAL Council of Wallsend v. Thomas Platt; claim, 5s 9d for rates due. Defendant pleaded never indebted. Case proved, and verdict for plaintiff with costs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, 5Th June, 1879. (Before Lieut.-Col. Maunsell, P.M., G. Tully and J. C. Dibbs, Esqs., J.P.'s)
DRUNKENNESS.—Three inebriates was fined 5s each. RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR.—One offender was fined 5s…
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AT the Police Court, yesterday, before Lieutenant-Colonel Maunsell, P.M., one person for being drunk was fined 5s. or 24 hours, and Margaret Gee 20s., or seven days for the…
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THE circumstances which have gradually come to light and the discoveries which have been made by the police and others tend to show that the mutilated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LOCAL & GENERAL Newcastle Police Court
AT the Police Court, on Saturday, before E. A. White, Esq., J.P., two drunkards were fined 10s each, two persons up for protection were discharged, and Thomas Elwin for…
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THE coroner's inquest on the body of the murdered man Chin Ah Keong was resumed on Friday at the police court, before Mr. Alley…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, 9Th June, 1879. (Before Lieut.-Col. Maunsell, P.M. : G. Tully and W. Robson, Esq., J.P.'s.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Four persons were fined 5s each for this offence; and Mary Hurley and Isabella M'Gregor 20s each, with the alternative of seven days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Small Debts' Court. Monday, 17Th June, 1879. (Before Messrs. Robson and Tully, J.P.'s)
KNAGGS AND Co., v. A. DAVISON.—Claim, £5 14s 9d, goods sold. Verdict for plaintiff. J. ROBBINS v. H. HOLMES.—Claim, £3 2s, for work and labour done, viz. sinking a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, 10Th June, 1879. (Before Lieutenant-Colonel Maunsell, P.M.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Several offenders were fined 5s. each. WILFUL DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. Ellen Marshall pleaded guilty to a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lambton Police Court. Friday, June 6
JOHN WILSON was brought up on warrant charged with disobeying a summons of the court indicting him for using obscene language in a public place at New Lambton…
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AT the Court House, yesterday, before Lieutenant-Colonel Maunsell, P.M., Substitute Commissioner, a first and only meeting in the estate of Benjamin Hoye, of Hillsborough,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, 11Th June, 1879. (Before Lieutenant-Colonel Maunsell, P.M., and W. K. Lochhead, Esq, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Ah Sing, a Chinaman, was fined 5s, for imbibing too freely. Lizzie Smith pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly in Blane-street, on 10th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Plattsburg Police Court. Thursday, June 12Th, 1879. (Before Mr. H. A. Smith, P.M.)
JOHN DAVIS was charged with wilfully exposing his person, at the Railway Station, on the previous evening. Defendant pleaded guilty, and stated that he was not sober at…
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