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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 15
AT the Police Court yesterday, Peter Cunningham was charged with being drunk on a public way, and also with resisting Constable Hatherley and using obscene language; to all of which three charges he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Ah Ket, the Chinaman, has been acquitted of the charge of murdering a countryman in Little Bourke-street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE was no police business at the court yesterday. Schools-Attendance-Officer Lyne prosecuted, and secured convictions against the following defendants for neglecting to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE P.M. was assisted yesterday at the police court by Mr. George Donald, J.P. William Lanning, drunk and disorderly and assaulting Constable Larsen, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—It being announced that Dr. Knaggs will deliver the first lecture in connection with the St. John Ambulance Association of London, at the School of Arts, to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Newcastle District Court commenced its sittings yesterday morning, before his Honor Mr. District Court, Judge Dowling. The barristers present were Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Honor took his seat at 9.45 a.m. ELLIS V. CREER. This case, which was partially heard on Monday, was at once proceeded with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The Supreme Court was crowded to-day in all parts to hear the decision re the Herald's contempt of court ease. The Chief Justice delivered a lengthy judgment, occupying three-quarters of an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNKENNESS.âSeveral inebriates were fined. A SALVATION ARMYIST IN TROUBLE.âHenry Lord pleaded guilty to having been drunk and riotous in Finnegan's evidence showed that prisoner had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. David Ludlow, J.P., disposed of the police court business yesterday. The charge sheet was a light one. Edward Olund, William Bateman,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Mair, P. M., and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P., a peculiar charge of damage to property was heard. Defendant was Charles Joseph Campbell, master mariner, but now…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. MAIR, P.M., disposed of the police court business yesterday. John Williams, seaman, for riotous behaviour, was fined 10s, for three days. John M'Donald, alias…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A prisoner in the Parramatta gaol hanged himself yesterday. He attached a rope belonging to his hammock to the ceiling, put one end round his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The evidence in the inquiry into the wreck of the barquentine Alma. Captain Fatterson, on the Elizabeth reef, 300 miles off the Queensland coast on the 3rd of August, was heard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GRAFTON, Saturday.—Mr. M'Dougall, police magistrate, should be elevated to the Supreme Court Bench for his opinions with regard to contempt of court. Lately a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Friday.—The preliminary examination of Dr. Connelly and his brother, who were arrested last month at Limericz, on a charge of conspiracy to murder, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. MAIR, P.M., with Messrs. S. Chapman, and David Ludlow, J.'sP., were the presiding justices at the police court yesterday. Henry Payne, seaman, drunk and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY, at the Police court John Shannon, James Cowan, and Anthony O'Donnell, alias M'Donald, samen aboard the ship Somersetshire, were charged with riotous behaviour on board. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Thursday evening a largely-attended public meeting of Wallsend and Plattsburg residents was held at the School of Arts, Wallsend, to consider the existing laws…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Friday, before Mr. Perrott, P.M., James Peattie was charged by Sergeant Vizzard, Licensing Inspector for the Waratah district, with keeping open his licensed…
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