Select Poetry. Victorian Police Regulations
Let dogs delight to bank and bite, For so they're sure to do; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature to…
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Courts & crime, 1881
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Double Murder
AT the Ghent assizes, which has just been held, a Belgian, named Dobbelaere, has been condemned to death for an atrocious double murder committed…
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AT the Police Court yesterday morning the drunkard's list contained the name of one offender only. In a case in which John Gannon was charged with wife…
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IT may be well to remind those interested that the Newcastle District Court will open on Monday next, at 10 a.m. His Honor Judge Dowling will preude…
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A TERRIBLE murder and suicide has been committed near Dolgelley, in Wales, by Evan Jones, a retired printer, and a deacon of independent…
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ON Saturday, at the Police Court, Thomas Gaynor, drunk and disorderly, was fined 10s., in default forty-eight hours; and for assaulting senior constable Finnegan, 40s.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 18, 1881. (Before the Police Magistrate)
DRUNKENNESS.—Four offenders were fined in various sums for the above offence; and Christopher Iverson was fined 30s in addition, for disorderly conduct and…
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THE Melbourne Argus reports that on Friday the hearing of evidence against the three men implicated in the Ferret frauds was closed at the City Police…
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Henderson, alias Smith, alias Bernard, the principal actor in the remarkable Ferret swindle, which has engrossed public attention so much lately, has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, 15Th June, 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Several inebriates were dealt with as customary. VAGRANCY.— William Brown, an old offender, was sent to gaol for six months…
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THE adjourned sittings of the District Court took place yesterday, before his Honor Mr. District Court Judge Dowling, when the following remanets were…
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AT the Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., one drunkard was fined.—Euphemia Stevenson, in addition to being fined for drunkenness, was fined…
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THERE have been many disasters on the turf in the past year or two, but nothing so painful has occurred as the fiasco just made by a sporting baronet,…
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AT the police court yesterday the charge sheet contained the names of two drunkards, who were disposed of as customary. Archibald Stevenson and James…
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ON Saturday, at the Police Court, only three offenders were dealt with. Ann Matilda Buckingham, for using obscene language on the wharf, was fined 40s., or…
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His Worship the P.M. presided at the Police Court yesterday. Seven drunkards were disposed of, and Christian Cornelius, a labourer, was ordered to pay 25s, the…
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THE Police Magistrate yesterday disposed of the business of the usual Court of Requests. There were only a few cases, none of any public interest; judgment in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, 21St June, 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M.)
DRUNKENESS.âOne offender was dealt with for this offence. VAGRANCY.âSarah Jones, an elderly woman, on remand, was charged with…
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THREE cases of inebriety, in which two aboriginals and one white man were the offenders, were disposed of by the P.M. yesterday morning. The license of Henry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, June 23rd. 1881. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Messrs. Lochhead and Creer, J.'sP.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Two offenders were dealt with. SELLING OYSTERS ILLEGALLY.—James Campbell upon summons to answer the…
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