Newcastle Police Court
MESSRS. W. K. LOOGHEAD and W. H, Shaw, J.'s P presided at the Police Court, yesterday. Only one drunkard was dealt with. Thomas Cleary, better known as "Blazes," was found guilty of having…
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Courts & crime, 1884
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Newcastle Police Court. an Obscene Scoundrel Punished. the Lash Awarded
AT the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Ludlow, J.P., there was quite an array of drunkards, and a serious charge of indecency was tried…
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SUITORS are reminded that this 19th instant. (Tuesday) is the last day for taking out plaints in the District Court, to be held on Monday, 1st September…
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ON Saturday evening late, a young woman named Fanny Battertree, an employee of Mrs. Flower, milliner, &c., Walker-street, North Shore, Sydney, was returning home…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—At the inquiry held at Edenhope, Victoria, on the remains of a woman and child recently found at Maryvale, the evidence showed…
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MESSRS. Lochhead and Creer, J's.P., presided at the Police Court yesterday. Mary Cott, "Old Poll," aged sixty-six, was fined 5s for about her hundred and fiftieth charge of drunkenness. A charge…
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In Sandhurst (Vic.) a young man, named Michael O'Loughlin, was charged with having assaulted a young woman, named Edith Devine, with intent to commit a criminal assault. The prosecutrix's…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.—The Tailem Bend mystery, which has arisen in connection with the suspicious death of a navvy named Patrick Conway in his…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—Mr. Stewart, the head clerk of the Central, and Assistant-Clerk of Petty Sessions, was to-day acting as Chamber Magistrate and Clerk of…
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SYDNEY, Sunday, 6 p.m.—Several serious cases of small-pox broke out here last night, but the news was, for desirable reasons, kept as secret at first as possible…
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MR. MAIR, P.M, and Mr. David Ludlow, J.P., dealt with the charge and summons sheets at the Police Court yesterday. Seven drunkards were fined, chiefly for Sunday inebriety—one of them a…
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MR. MA[?]R, P.M., and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P., occupied the local Bench yesterday, and first of all put through about half-a-dozen drunkards. Mary Brideirk, 61,…
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THE business was unimportant yesterday. The P.M. presided. Five drunkards were fined in the usual sum, and the Inspector of Nuisances obtained convictions in three…
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AT the close of yesterday's show at Singleton a brutal assault was committed by some magsmen men upon on old man named Johnson, employed by Mr. G. Loder, J.P., of Abbey Green. Johnson was…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. T. Brooks, J.P., sat at the Police Court yesterday. Six drunkards pleaded guilty, and were fined. Robert Green, a seaman, for indecent language, was fined £3, or two months;…
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MR. W. H. SHAW, J.P., disposed of the Police Court business yesterday. One drunkard was dealt with. James M'Dowell, a young seaman, charged with having used indecent language to Mr. H…
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FIVE inebriates were dealt with by the local bench on Saturday. Charles Wright Wrigley, 14, a respectable-looking youngster, was accorded "one more chance"…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Ah Goon, a Chinese restaurant keeper, of Little Bourke-street, was found murdered in his bed this morning. Suspicion points to…
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THE Newcastle District Court will commence its sittings this morning, before his Honor Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson. About sixty-five cases are set down for…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.—At the inquest on the skeleton of a woman and child, whose bones were found some time ago at Edenhope, and who are suspected to…
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