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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 29
GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE.—Ann Ellis O'Brien, a poor broken-down-looking woman, was charged with vagrancy. She pleaded hard for another chance being given her to find employment, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE desire to draw attention to the postponement of the Assize Court in Maitland until Saturday. Mr. James Fletcher has received a telegram from Mr. W. H. Mullen, of Maitland, stating that his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM our Blarney correspondent we (Evening News) learn that on Monday night three men broke into the house of G. Hinds, who lives on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The body of an old gaol bird named John Laidlaw has been found in the harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Henry Neville, under committal for the murder of the young girl Mary O'Brien, at Narandera, has confessed the crime…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MALICIOUSLY WOUNDING.—Mary Hurley was charged with maliciously wounding a Mrs. Peirce. Senior-constable Thompson deposed that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Barrow the editor of the South Australian Times, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment without hard labour for libelling Mr. Tomkinson…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Captain Howes, for stealing imprest orders while in the Queen's service, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MALICIOUSLY WOUNDING.—Mary. Hurley, who was on remand from the previous day on a charge of maliciously wounding a Mrs. Pierce, by cutting her arm with a water…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Grafton Circuit Court was opened yesterday, Mr. Justice Faucett presiding. Matthew Fiske, a Russian Finn, an old man, about 70 years of age, was arraigned for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →VAGRANCY.—An elderly woman, named Catherine Fanning, who was charged with being a vagrant without lawful visible means of support, was sent to gaol for three months,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Goulburn Assizes Thomas Rowland has been sentenced to death for the murder of John Wilson at Cootamundra…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →G. Dobbil's tender has been accepted for the erection of a shed for the water police at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DRUNKENNESS.âTWO offenders appeared to pay penance, consequent upon having had more than the limited quantity of spirits the previous day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"STAGGERATION."—Notwithstanding the excessive heat only one offender stood before the awful throne of judgement, and bowed with guilt o'erspreading his brow, when asked how he pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →APPLICATION OF RENEWAL.—The application of A.J. Deaton, of Stockton for the renewal of his License, of Deaton's Hotel; came on for hearing, and as there was no police objection the application…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Sandhurst Assize Court today Edward Hunter, for the wilful murder of James Power at Charlton, on September 16, was found guilty and sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →INEBRIETY—Only one the of liquor-absorbing brotherhood had the privillege of standing in the prisoner's box, and after paying the customary fine he was allowed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Assizes of the Ardeures has just condemned to death a man named Noel, who in April last murdered an old lady of 85 years, the widow Simon,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Captain Miller, for many years engaged in the beche de mer fishery at New Guinea, has been murdered by the natives of Moresby Island…
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