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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 15
THE local bench had before them yesterday morning a case of an unusual nature, and one that calls for the still further prompt investigation which, doubtless, it will receive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Municipal Council of Plattsburg held a Friendly Appeal Court on Saturday evening last, in the Council Chambers; all the Aldermen were present except Aldermen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Some twenty-two cases of appeals against the above rates were heard, before Messrs. Lochhead and Chapman, J's.P. The principal reductions made were the Soap Works,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—About half a dozen inebriates were dealt with, as customary. John White, seaman, for drunkenness, obscene language, and resisting W. P…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Allow me through the columns of your valuable paper to point out an injustice that has been done to the Wickham ratepayers. There is to be a Friendly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Between the night of the 2nd and morning of the 3rd of January, a murder was committed under circumstances of great brutality at Aboosu, in Warsaw, Cape…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →B. PRITCHARD, on remand for indecent language within hearing of persons passing in Hunter-street, was fined £1 or one month. Mary Hurley, for profane language,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A BURGLARY, remarkable for the degree of daring and extreme coolness by which it was characterised, and one that displayed a villainous intent and wanton malignity,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Friendly Appeal Court of the above Council was held in the Council Chambers on the same evening. There were only three cases of appeals…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ONE drunkard was fined in the usual penalty. Victor Coulson was convicted of deserting from the Swedish barque Express, at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →His Honor Mr. Justice Windeyer took his seat at 10 o'clock this morning, and disposed of the business on the paper. The decrees nisi in Walker v. Walker, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A BATCH of drunkards were disposed of with the usual penalties. William H. Johnson, for having used obscene language at Bullock Island, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robert Page, of Casino, printer. Liabilities, £117 9s; assets, £5. Mr. F. M'Nab, official assignee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →READ V. READ AND PROCTER.—The petitioner, the husband, was married to the respondent, a governess, in 1869, at a registry office in London. Ten years later…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday, before the P.M., School-attendance Officer Asher prosecuted several persons for breaches of the Public Instruction Act. They were each fined in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LARCENY.—Ernest Simcox, a respectably dressed young man, on remand, surrendered to his bail, charged with larceny. The offence was that of having stolen and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN unusually long long list of drunkards was got through, including the name of "Poll Cott," the heroine of nearly 200 previous convictions. The old lady had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the Police Court yesterday, Rachael White, for having assaulted Martha Bell, was fined £1 7s 6d; in default fourteen days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Saturday last a blackfellow named Bob was committed for trial at Dubbo, by Mr. Browne, P.M., on a charge of having committee at Coradgery, near Collie, a rape on a girl named Mary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A HORRIBLE discovery was made in Little Bourke-street, Melbourne, on Monday afternoon, when the body of Ah Young, a Chinaman, was found murdered The…
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