A Police Magistrate Convalescent
Mr. N. Connelly, police magistrate, presided in the Blayney Court yesterday morning for the first time since his late serious illness. Mr. J. O. Dodd…
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Courts & crime, 1885
574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 29
Burglary
YESTERDAY afternoon (says Monday's Morpeth Times), the residence of Mr. John Eastwood dealer, was entered by the window while he with his family was attending the…
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The man William Miller, charged with shooting Johanna Kellow, at Newtown, last evening, with intent to murder, was committed for trial to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, July 7. (Before Major Bolton, Dr. Morgan, and Mr. W. Brooks, J's.P.)
INEBRIATES.—Seven of these gentry stood in the box to answer for their misdoings, and were mulcted in sums ranging from 5s to 20s, with the alternative of…
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At the Rushworth Police Court, James Stewart, a young man who had severely beaten an old shepherd named Harry Hopkins, for alleged indecency, a…
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At the Newtown Police Court William Miller was charged with shooting one Johanna Kellon, with intent to murder her. Constable Bell deposed that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, July 8. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.M., and Mr. J. Creer, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Three offenders paid the penalty in the usual sum. Alex. Clark, one of the two, was also charged with resisting a constable whilst in the execution…
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A CASE in which some very serious disclosures affecting the police were made was heard this morning at the Central Police Court, when a cabman…
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John THOMAS LEE, 38, a locksmith, appeared in the Water Police Court to-day, before Mr. W. Johnson, S.M, on a charge of having attempted to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, July 9. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.M., and Mr. G. Donald, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—The wet weather evidently has a tendency to decrease the number of inebriates. Only a solitary offender appeared to answer for his misdoings, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Licensing Court. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.M., and Dr. Morgan and Mr. W. Lockhead, J's.P.)
An application was made by Mr. C. Burton, tobacconist, of Perkin-street, for a billiard table license. Mr. J. A. Gorrick appeared for the applicant. It will be…
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A CASE has lately been heard at the Central Police Court, Sydney, which lets a little daylight upon the manner in which charges are sometimes…
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News has been received from Derby, in the Kemberley district, that Mr. Chas. Stenton and Captain Rickleton, of the schooner Pearl, had been murdered by…
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The charge against Constable Sullivan for excess of duty in arresting the cabman Lindsay was dismissed without a stain on his character…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, July 10. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.M., and Mr. J. Creer, J.P.)
DECREASE OF DRUNKENNESS.—This offence against the law appeals to be on the wane, at least at Newcastle. Only one offender, John Mulcahy, was ordered to…
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"Robert Henderson and Daniel Winner have been committed for trial at the Fitzroy Court on a charge of burglary in the Rev. John Turner's house in…
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The Cooktown police wire that You Ah Louch, a Chinese packer, has been murdered by blacks near Stony Creek, Palmer River…
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A man named John Wilson has been found killed in his tent near Cootamundra. It is supposed that his head has been…
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A CORRESPONDENT writes from Barcelona:—"The inhabitants of this city, and especially the commercial section of the population, were lately thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. Wallsend. Police Court. (Before Mr. Perrott, P.M., and Mr. J. Birrell, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—William Garret, charged with being drunk on Saturday night, promised the Bench it should never happen again. He was then discharged…
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