Police Court
YESTERDAY, before the Police Magistrate, the following cases were disposed of:—Alexander Copeland, indecent language, 20s, and 2s 6d costs, in default 14 days…
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Courts & crime, 1881
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Charge of Cattle-stealing
CLARENCE TOWN, Monday.—A farmer named Keeghan residing near Seaham, was apprehended on Saturday by constable Preston, charged with stealing a calf, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(From the Sydney Papers.) The Murder in Queensland
BRISBANE, Monday.—A young man named Michael J. Minnis, a school teacher, was arrested on Saturday night for the murder of Phillinger, at Mount…
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YESTERDAY the Police Court business disposed of was small. Frederick Frost, for a breach of the by-laws, in riding on his dray at Hamilton, was fined 10s, and 2s…
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THOMAS MCMURRIN for neglecting to pay his fare from Sydney by the Coonanbarra, was yesterday fined 20s., in default seven days. John Edwards, for using indecent…
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CLARENCE TOWN, Friday.—Michael Kegan's case was further gone into to-day. The evidence occupied nearly seven hours. The Bench did not consider there was…
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SIXTEEN years ago General Garfield, in the House of Representatives, made a speech on the assassination of President Lincoln, which will be of especial…
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AT the police court, on Saturday, before the P.M., the business was very light. Michael McCullen, for stealing a quantity of nuts and blue paper, valued at 2s, the…
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THE Rev. Charles Strong, the minister of the Scots' Church congregation, Collins-street (says the Melbourne Argus), was summoned at the District Court on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, Oct. 10, 1881. (Before the Police Magistrate.)
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY AND RESISTING THE POLICE.—Anthony Nelson, Patrick Munroe, and Albert Bruce, were convicted of the above offences and respectively…
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AT the Police Court, yesterday, before the P.M., an aboriginal named Willie, charged with being drunk in Hunter-street, was discharged with a caution. Wm…
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YESTERDAY, at the Police Court, before the P.M. and Mr. Lochhead, J.P., Elizabeth Houghton was charged with vagrancy, and sentenced to one month in…
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AN inebriate named Lenthall was fined 5s, or 24 hours, and for resisting the police 20s, or 14 days. Three persons were dealt with for allowing cows and pigs to…
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MR. BUCHANAN, P.M. presided at the Police Court yesterday. Three drunkards, two females and a male, were fined. A charge against Peter Murphy of having…
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ABOUT 7 o'clock last evening the City Arms Hotel, kept by Mr. Walmsley, at the intersection of Hunter and Market streets, was the scene of a barefaced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Supreme Court.—nisi Prini Sittings. Saturday, August, 25Th, 1845. (Before His Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson and a jury of four)
JUROR FINED.—Mr. John Tooth, who, on two former occasions during the attendance of the present panel, being fined for not appearing to serve as a juror was again fined…
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LONDON, October 14.—A postman, who was lately a witness for the Crown at a trial at Longford, in Ireland, has been shot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lambton. Police Court.—friday, Oct. 14. (Before Mr. Perrott, P.M.)
William Whiteman was, charged by the Council Clerk and Inspector of Nuisances, at Lambton, with having, on the 6th instant, caused to be left unenclosed a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, October 18, 1881. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P.)
ROBBERY.—Robert Walmsley, on remand, was charged with having stolen a cash-box containing about £52 in cash, the property of Joseph Walmsley…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, October 19, 1881. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M.)
INSULTING WORDS.—Dominic Kinsela, for using insulting words to James Solway, was fined 5s, with 7s costs of court. BREACHES OF BY LAWS.—Johnson…
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