Newcastle Police Court
MAJOR BOLTON and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P, sat at the Police Court yesterday. One drunkard was fined. John Prendergast, on remand, was charged with having…
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Courts & crime, 1885
574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 29
Mr. J. B. Slack's Murder
MELBOURNE, Wednesday—The convict Barnes, in Pentridge, who recently confessed that he murdered Mr. J. B. Slack, has latterly so broken down mentally and…
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DRUNKENNESS.—Four offenders were filed. DISORDERLIES.—George Handcock and Eliza Tait were respectively fined…
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Mr. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. David Ludlow, J.P., occupied the local rostrum yesterday, and fined six drunkards. William Pearce, on remand, was bound over to appear at…
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YESTERDAY at the Police Court Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P., dealt with the charge and summons cases. Mr. Shaw left the bench during the morning,…
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YESTERDAY was a field day at the local court, so far as time was concerned although not much of importance was elicited. Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. J. Creer, J.P., together with a visiting justice from…
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A DARING attempt at burglary was luckily frustrated on the night of the 30th ult., in a house in Scott-street, opposite Waratah Terrace. The family had retired, and all…
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MAJOR BOLTON, and Captain O'Sullivan, J.'sP., presided at the Police Court yesterday. There were three prisoners, but their cases were each unique in their way. Number one was a red-headed young…
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ABOUT 10 o'clock last night a man named Charles Cooto, a brickmaker, was locked up on a charge of having violently assaulted his wife. The parties were former residents of Newcastle, but lately…
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On Wednesday before Mr. Perrott, P.M., and Mr. R. Turton, J., several billiard licenses were granted, and wine and publicans' licenses renewed. Ralph Taylor applied for a license for a new…
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ON Saturday at the Police Court a brace of drunkards were fined. Thomas Cleary, an inveterate toper, went back to gaol for about the twentieth time, not having £4 to…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The convict Barnes, who alleges that he murdered Mr. J. B. Slack, of South Melbourne, in October last, is stated to be a raving…
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THE Police Magistrate and Mr. David Ludlow, J.P., sat at the local court yesterday, but had not much business to dispose of. Stephen Jeffries, a rough-and-tumble seaman, pleaded guilty to having been…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—William Clark, a carpenter, has been committed for trial for striking his wife five blows on the head with a tomahawk…
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NEW YORK, Saturday.—A case of deliberate murder occurred in this city to-day. An Irishman who had been connected with the "Invincible" organisation,…
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MR. MAIR, P.M. presided at the local court yesterday. Six drunks were dealt with in the usual way. Michael McCarthy, an inebriate on remand, was brought up for…
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YESTERDAY at the Police Court there was not much business to dispose of but the hearing lasted a long while. The principal case was a charge of wilful disobedience against Walter Currie, Charles Strumler,…
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MR. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. Joseph Creer, J.P., presided at the local court yesterday. One inebriate was, as usual, called upon to subscribe 5s to the Crown. Charles Henry, a labourer, was fined £3, or…
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BERLIN, Wednesday.—A police official, who has recently taken a very prominent, part in the prosecution of the Socialists, was stabbed to death in Frankfort. The…
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PROTECTION.—John Donovan, a youth who had spent a week at Maitland gaol, recovering from deliruim tremens, was set at liberty…
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