District News. Wallsend. Small Debts Court
On Thursday, before the Police Magistrate, and James Birrell, J.P., out. of 12 cases there were the settled out of Court. Verdicts for plaintiffs, with costs,…
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Courts & crime, 1882
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Murder of Captain P. J. Roels.—a South Sea Island Tragedy
BY the steamer Genil, Captain G. H. Southgate, of the schooner Sea Rip, which at the time of writing, was at Mioko, Duke of York Island, sends us (Echo) the following report…
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THE Police Magistrate, with Mr. C. F. Stokes, J.P., presided at a Licensing Court held yesterday. Thomas S. Cornish, charged with having sold liquor on his…
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THE Police Magistrate disposed of the following business yesterday:—One drunkard was [?]ealt with, and a boy named Charles Solmon, employed as "boots"at…
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SUPERINTENDENT GARLAND, of Tamworth, on retiring, after twenty year's Service was banqutted, and presented with artesimonial at Tamworth. In…
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A CORRESPONDENT, for the second time, writes us strongly upon a wretched system of gambling that appears to be of weekly recurrence near Newcastle, The spot…
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CAIRO, April 14.—The Cireassain officers who were arrested for being concerned in the plot to murder Arabe Bey, Minister for War, have been ordered to be tried by…
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THE Maitland Circuit Court will open at East Maitland on Wednesday, 19th inst., before Sir William Manning. The following is a list of cases in which the…
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THE P.M., with Messrs. Lochhead and Creer, J.'sP., presided at the Police Court yesterday. A batch of drunkards, and "drunk and disorderlies" were dealt with,…
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THREE drunkards were disposed of at the Police Court yesterday. George A. G. Gee, charged with threatening to take the life of his wife, Annie Gee, was ordered to…
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LONDON, April 18.—The week's parole awarded to Mr. Parnell expired to-day. He had then not surrendered himself. A report is current that he has been shot en route…
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THE Maitland Circuit Court opened before his Honor Sir William Manning, yesterday. The following cases were disposed of:—Charles Solomon, larceny, pleaded guilty,…
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ONE female drunkard paid the usual penalty at the Police Court yesterday. James Larkins, seaman, for disorderly conduct aboard the British registered ship…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., with Mr. J. Creer, J.P., disposed of the police court business yesterday. A couple of drunkards were dealt with as the introductory operation, and…
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ON Wednesday evening, the 5th in instant (says the Glen Innes Examiner), a most brutal affair is reported to have been enacted on the Glen Innes racecourse, during which a…
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LONDON, April 20.—Another bailiff has been murdered in County Carlow…
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THE little village of Hermaux (near Nimes) was a few days ago the scene of a murder, which is now the only topic of conversation in that peaceful…
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A SPECIAL Licensing Court will be hold at the Court House, on Monday, the 1st May, at 11 a.m., for the purpose of cancelling the licenses of publicans who have abandoned…
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SIR,—It is a well-known fact that there is not one police constable told off for specific duty of preserving order on the abovementioned wharves. Can you, sir, as an editor is supposed…
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A COUPLE of drunkards only figured before the local bench on Saturday. A seaman, named John Rennie, was sentenced to two months' for the deliberate theft of…
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