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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
490 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 25
FURTHER hearing of motion to make absolute the rule nisi for the sequestration by John Shepherd of the estate of George Richard Dibbs. Mr. Manning, instructed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Monday.—At the inquest on the body of the newly-born child found on the Newtown Road, a verdict of wilful murder against some person unknown…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MILITARY MEN IN TROUBLE.—John Reale and Robert Linton, both members of the Newcastle Permanent Artillery Force, were brought up in custody, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. BUCHANAN, P.M., and Captain O'Sullivan, J.P , adjudicated at the Police Court yesterday. Robert Mathias, an ordinary seaman, pleaded guilty to having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CONCERNING a practice that obtains in many Police Courts of ordering witnesses indiscriminately outside by the direction of the police prior to a case being heard,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, August 16.—A gathering og Home Rulers at Glasgow resulted in a collision with the police. Some were seriously maltreated and injured but there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, August 17.—At the burglary on the premises of Eldon, the jeweller, £20,000 worth of jewellery and plate, with the Great Seal presented by George…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A woman named Mrs. Young has been brutally murdered near Otago. The deed is supposed to have been committed by a Chinaman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Robert C. Watt, Newcastle, engine driver. Liabilities, £103; assets, £16. Robert Moodie, Mountain-killed Meat Company, Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—Two offenders were dealt with. WILFUL DAMAGE.—Daniel O'Donnell, charged with wilfully breaking a pane of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A FEARFUL tragedy occurred on the 4th August at the Kyeburn diggings. Mrs. Young, a highly respected elderly widow, living alone in a hut, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the Metropolitan district court on Wednesday, August 18, Before Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson, M'Grath v. Tighe and another, the plaintiff…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →VAGRANCY.—Charles Chow, Chinaman, a one-armed man, well known to the police, was convicted of being a vagrant, and sent to goal for three months…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BY the schooner The Queen, which arrived in Sydney on Friday night from the Solomon Islands, we learn of the capture and burning of the schooner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Saturday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., Simpson Williamson; an old offender, who had boon given into the custody of Constable Lloyd early on the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Sydney Daily Telegraph having republished the Evening News article on the late label action has been served with a writ to appear and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. — Francis Haughey, for being drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street; was fined 10s., in default forty-eight hours, and admonished for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A daring burglary was committed on the premises of Mr. Benson, tailor, of Church-street, on Monday night. The burglars entered the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Daily Telegraph says that a brief but painful case was brought before Mr. Justice Windeyer, in the Divorce and Matrimonial jurisdiction, on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., Thomas White, charged with having travelled from Sydney and refusing to pay his fare by the steamer…
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