Newcastle Police Court
THE following business was dealt with on Saturday at the Police, Court:—Elizabeth Stanbridge, an old visitor, for drunkenness, 10s, or three days.—Thomas Burslow,…
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Courts & crime, 1884
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Another Murder in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Yesterday afternoon the body of a man was found in the Yarra. The appearance of the body was such as led the police to…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. David Ludlow, J.P., dealt with the Police Court business yesterday; which lasted until the one o'clock gun boomed. Five drunkards…
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VERY few prisoners graced the local dock yesterday; the "drunks" only mustering up a trio. William Charlton, drunk and disorderly, was again fined 20s, or a week…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., with Messrs. Lochhead and Creer, J's.P., adjudicated at the Police Court yesterday. D. M'Auliffe was fined 7s. 6d. for a breach of the vehicles by-laws…
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YESTERDAY, at the local police court, the following items were turned over. Frederick Burns, coal trimmer, was charged by Emma Pankhurst, of Bullock Island, with having illegally removed certain…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—O'Brien, accused of the Lancefield murder, has been further tracked…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The dynamiters, Daly and Egan, have been sentenced to penal servitude for life and twenty years, respectively…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. David Ludlow, J.P., dealt with the Police Court offenders yesterday. Six drunkards toed the scratch, and were ordered to pay up proportionately…
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ONE drunkard, and a "cheap" traveller from Sydney, per steamer Kembla, were dealt with at the Police Court yesterday. The latter was fined 40s, or two weeks. In…
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THE local temple of justice was busily thronged yesterday, but no event of particular import came off. The ball was opened by the P.M. disposing of a few inebriates. Frederick Solly, licensed vehicle driver,…
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At the Police Court, on Tuesday, before Messrs. T. Croudace, R. Turon, and Dr. Leacock, J.s.P., John Curran was charged with maliciously setting fire to a dwelling-house on the Commonage, Waratah,…
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SUITONS would do well to bear in mind that the next sittings of the Newcastle District Court will commence on Monday, September 1st. The last day for issuing pl[?]ints is…
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NEARLY an hour having been spent in hunting up a bench yesterday, Messrs. Lochhead and Creer, J.'sP., disposed of the Police Court business. Two drunkards pleaded "yes," and went back to the…
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MR. CANDLER, the district coroner, held an inquest on Wednesday at Pentridge prison, Melbourne, on the body of the prisoner Thomas Kelly, who was shot while endeavouring to make his escape with two…
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THREE drunkards were fined on Saturday at the Police Court. Thomas Duff and James Sennett, charged respectively with profane and indecent language, were each…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., with Messrs. J. Creer and David Ludlow, J's.P., dealt with yesterday's Police Court business. Two or three inebriates touched their forelocks in taken…
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THE P.M. (Mr. Mair), and Mr. J. Creer, J.P., presided at the Court-home yesterday.—Wm. Thomas, painter, 39, an attenuated, nervously-twitching young man, was brought up by Detective Champhin,…
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THE P.M. (Mr. Mair) sat alone at the Police Court yesterday. Three drunkards were fined. The next, and only other, offender was John Buston, alias Wilson, steward of…
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Attention has frequently been drawn at the Superior Courts to the disgraceful way in which depositions are taken at the Police Court, and this has been especially the case…
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