Assault on a Seaman
YESTERDAY morning a cowardly assault was made on a seaman, named Lambert, near the Great Northern Hotel. A boarding-house runner, named Thomas Cave, a…
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Courts & crime, 1885
574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 29
Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, February 26th. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs Donald and Major Bolton, J's P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—One offender was fined 5s, or in default ordered to go to goal for twenty-four hours. Mary Hurley, for being drunk in Hunter-street, was fined £1 or seven days. She was further charged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, February 27. (Before Major Bolton, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Elizabeth Stanbridge, for being drunk in Hunter-street, was fined 5s or 24 hours. George Carter, a seaman on board the steamer New Guinea, was mulct in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, February 28. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., Major Bolton, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Two faced the bench and for the above offence were each ordered to pay 5 towards the revenue, or "go up" for twenty-four hours. One of the same…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Would-be Warriors Charged by a Bull
A number of young men residing at a township in the Warrnambool district, made up their minds last week (says the Standard) to volunteer for service…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, March 2. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. D. Ludlow, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Five offenders, who had been indulging rather too freely were each fined in the usual sums, with the alternative of twenty-four hours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News by the Mail. Attempt to Murder an Informer
THE information just received from New York describing an attempt to murder an Irish informer in that city may perhaps have an important…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District News. Wallsend and Plattsburg. Wallsend Police Court. (Before Messrs. Perrott, P.M. J. F. Neilson, and J. Birrell, Js.P.)
James Barnett was fined 5s, for being drunk, and James Davies was fined 10s, for the same offence. Joseph Holmes v. William Kemp.—Mr. Brown, solicitor,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, March 3. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P.)
DRUNKS.—Four offenders toed the line, and were each fined in sums varying from 5s to 10s, with the usual alternative. One had been on the wharf to witness the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Folonious Assault
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Pedro Nicholas has been committed for trial for stabbing his fellow-countryman in the Argyle Cut…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, March 4. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.)
MALICIOUSLY INJURING PROPERTY.—Alexander Low appeared before his Worship to answer a charge of having maliciously injured some property valued at £5, viz.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cooranbong. Police Court Monday. (Before E. Reeve, P.M., and Thomas Russel, J.P.)
INDECENT ASSAULT.—Paul Naud and Frederick Milton were committed to the next court of Quarter Sessions, to be holden at Maitland on Monday the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TELEGRAMS. The Cowl Cowl Murder Case
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Cowl Cowl murder case commenced yesterday in the Criminal Court. The jury. were locked up for the night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Alleged Murder at Sea
William Rauscher and Ferdinand Koelpin, second mate and boatswain of the American ship J. F. Chapman, were charged at Bow-street lately…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cowl Cowl Murder Case
SYDNEY, Friday.—Charles Williams has been found guilty of the Cowl Cowl murder-Sentence of death has been recorded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder of a Mother in France
A shocking murder, with an extraordinary result, is reported by a Paris correspondent on Monday, January 12, as having occurred at Broom, near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder in the South Sea Islands
A TELEGRAM to the S. M. Herald, dated Brisbane, Tuesday, says:—The ketch P. T. M. arrived at Cooktown this afternoon from Brooker Island, New Guinea…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, March 5. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., Dr. Morgan, and Mr. Lochhead, Js.P.)
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION ACT.—School Attendance Officer Asser prosecuted no less than twenty parents for not sending their children to school the number of days required by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, March 8. (Before Mr. Mair P.M.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Two offenders were dealt with for the above offence, and were mulet in the sums of 5s and 10s respectively, with the alternative of going up. One of them…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cowl Cowl Murder. Sentence of Death
THE case against Charles Watson, arraigned on a charge of having wilfully murdered a man named William Matthews, at Wydra, near Cowl Cowl station, on the 26th July,…
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