Newcastle Police Court
ONLY one inebriate was fined at the Police Court yesterday. Wiltiam Callaghan, seaman man, was dealt with for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Richard Smart, a…
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Courts & crime, 1884
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Newcastle District Court
HIS HONOR JUIGR WILKINSON resumed the hearing of District Court remanets at the local Courthouse yesterday, morning. The following business was disposed of:…
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YESTERDAY at the Police Court, John Davidson, found guilty of having stolen £11 from James Olsen, at Pelican Flat, Lake Macquarie, was committed for trial…
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YESTERDAY evening Constable Rochfort after a good deal of rough-and-tumble struggling, locked up a powerfully-built fellow, named Michael Cullen, on a charge of having robbed the till at Hollinsheads'…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The jury on the body of Mrs. Payne, who died from poisoning, has returned an open verdict of murder…
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FOLLOWING were the concluding remanets heard by Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson, at the sittings of the above court:— BOWDEN v. KELLY.—Mr. Ralston, instructed by…
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Two drunkards completed Saturday's Police Court list. Mary Marsh, a married woman aged 18, was seatenced to two months' hard labour for having stolen a dress,…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—John Firkin, of Tighe's Hill, near Newcastle, miner. Liabilities, £44 4s 7½d; assets, £2 5s. Mr. L. T. Loyd, official assignee…
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LONDON, Sunday.—A constable has been dispatched to New Zealand to arrest a man who is suspected of murdering his mother, his sister, and his brother, in County Cork,…
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AT the Police Court, yesterday morning, three drunkards were dealt with. James M'Phail summoned Thomas Smith for assault, but neither parties appeared. Two…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., dealt with yesterday's Police Court charges; leading off with the fining of a batch of drunkards. William Ganaway, a seaman, for drunkenness and…
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MR. MAIE, P.M., presided at the Police Court yesterday, and the order was as follows: Sir drunkards having been disposed of, James Baines, an old [?] of the…
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HALF an hour wasted as usual yesterday, before a magistrate could he found to adjudicate. Ali Mahomed, Gohlam Salham, and Araburt Ghopal. three Lascar seamen from the steamer Duke of…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., dealt with a few cases at the Police Court on Saturday. Ali Mahomed, Goolam, Salham, and Annabert Shopal, three lascar seaman, were acquitted…
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A GOODLY muster of prisoners answered to the roll yesterday, before the P.M. A few drunks having been disposed of, Isaac T. Smith and Alexander Gumm were fined £1, or three days, for drunkenness…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Constable Goulder, while attempting to arrest a person in Woolloomooloo, yesterday, was attacked by two men, and severely maltreated, and…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Yesterday Senior-Sergeant Jarvey, while attempting to arrest a thief, who was on the top of a building in Lower George-street, fell to…
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THE following cases were dealt with at the Police Court yesterday:—Henry Harding, a boy eleven years of age, was charged with habitually wandering about the streets…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Francis Joseph Cox, late postmaster of Rookwood, has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for embezzling Government monies…
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YESTERDAY Mr. Mair, P.M., presided at the local court. The drunkards numbered only two. Thomas Riley, bootmaker, drunk and disorderly, fined 10s. or forty-eight hours. George Keliy, seaman, drunk…
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