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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
490 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 25
One of the most disgraceful exhibitions ever witnessed in a church in a city was given in the Chamber Street Presbyterian Church Boston, Mass, on Feb. 5, 1880,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Circuit Court, to-day, James Poulson was tried for the murder of his daughter, Mary Poulson, at Wattle Flat, in March last. Prisoner pleaded not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Right Hon. Hugh Childers has renewed is pressure for the appointment of a Royal Commission to take charge of the British Court at the Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., Benjamin Kenward, a previous offender, was found guilty of stealing a piece of old iron belonging to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VERA SASSULITSCH is a tragic hero and yet the adventures with which name is associated belong to the don[?] of comedy. She has been viliga[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PETTY LARCENY.—Emily Davis, a young unmarried woman, pleaded guilty to the theft of one pocket handkerchief and one pair of socks, the property of Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Saturday, before the Police Magistrate, Ellen Wye, alias Armstrong, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 10s, in default 48 hours. Edward Capon,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT 3 a.m. yesterday morning, a well known resident of Newcastle, William Sampson (better known as "Black Sampson"), was arrested on the premises of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TRIP FROM SYDNEY.—Mary An[?] Ti pleaded guilty to drunkenness[?] using profane language, and was[?] charged, having been in the lockup [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN our advertising columns, those colonial renowned athletes and exponents of all matters in connection with athletic exercise, Messrs. J. and A. West, are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →W. Home was brought up for being drunk and disorderly, and discharged in consequence of the length of time he had been in the cells. G. Lloyd, for profane…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN INCORRIGIBLE.—Catherine Salisbury, an aged woman, found helplessly drunk in Watt-street by Senior Constable Finnegan, was sentenced to six months'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—Two inebriates were dealt with. VAGRANGY.—Allen M'Lean Stevenson, charged with vagrancy, was sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY, shortly before noon, a customer entered the shop of a worthy citizen not a hundred miles from the Ship Inn, Hunter-street, and proceeded to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A MOST atrocious murder was committed in Virginia county, on March last. Mr. C. K. Walton, an estimate citizen, was murdered, his store, (which was in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DRUNKENNESS.—Three drunkards, in the "pure and simple" sense of this oft-recurrent word, were dealt with in the usual manner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EMILY THOMPSON and Emily Thompson, mother and daughter, were arraigned at the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, on Tuesday, on a charge that they did at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—John Brown, an old offender, was sent to gaol for one month for this offence. DRUNK AND DISORDEREY.—Michael…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE business at the Police Court yesterday consisted of a clean sheet, on both the charge and summons sides. On Thursday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A COURT of appeal to hear objections against municipal levies for the current year, was held at the Newcastle Court House yesterday…
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