Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, April 11. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, Police Magistrate.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Four inebriates paid for their misdoings by handing over the usual sum to the revenue. AN AUSTRALIAN BRAVE.—Henry…
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Courts & crime, 1885
574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 29
The Coonamble Gaol Escapees. They Stick Up a Store. One Shot Dead, the Other Mortally Wounded
SYDNEY, Saturday 1 p.m.âAngel and Thurston, the escapees from Coonamble Gaol, stuck up Charles Stewart, storekeeper, at Bellinfont's Bridge, Green…
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A NEW form of mur[?]er, and that of a most ingenious kind, has been invented and carried at by a Pole, of the name of Bazinski at Philadelphia,…
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A FEW days ago (says the Pall Mall Gazette)one of the police magistrates was scandalised by the appearance in the dock of a member of the Weller…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, April 13. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. D. Ludlow, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—[?]ight inebriates faced the Bench and were fined in sums ranging from 5s, to £1, with the usual alternative of going up…
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THE Timaru correspondent of the Lyttelton Times contributes the following:—"An 'original' appeared the other day in the district court, a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, April 14. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.M., and Mr. G. Donald, J.P.)
No LAWFUL MEANS OF SUPPORT.—Mary Smyth, a young woman who only appeared before the Court a week ago on a charge of drunkenness, was charged with having no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, April 15. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.M., and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.âFour drunks faced the Bench, and were all fined, three 5s and one 10s each; in default, 24 hours. BREACHES OF THE BY-LAWS.âInspector…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Pettavel Murder. Arrest of the Widow and a Labourer
MRS. JANE BEECH, window of the farmer and butcher who was murdered on January 22, 1884, with Frank Howarth, a labourer, who was living at the house of Pettavel at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District News. East Maitland. Police Court, Tuesday, 14Th April. (Before Dr. Spink, Dr. Wright, Mr. Cullum, and Mr. Carlton, Js.P.)
Walter George Lewington was charged with ravishing and carnally knowing one Sarah Warby, of the age of fourteen, on 6th April last, at East…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, April 16. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.M., and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Only one offender was dealt with. He was fined the usual amount. STEALING.—Jane Malcahey, a young girl, was charged with having stolen 15s 6d, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sentenced to the Gallows. George H. Mills to Die for the Murder of His Wife
George H. Mills, who killed his wife, Eliza F. Mills, in Williamsburg, was sentenced to be hanged on Friday, April 10, by Judge Moore, in the King's…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Charles Fitzgibbon, who was arrested about a fortnight ago, charged with having criminally assaulted a domestic at the…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—William Barnes was found guilty of the murder of J. B. Slack, and sentenced to death. The prisoner maintained a stolid demeanour…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—A man named John O'Connor was taken to the city lookup this evening, charged with attempting to murder Mary Gardener, at the…
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ON Saturday, before Mr. Perrott, P.M., and Mr. R. Turton, J.P., licensing magistrates, James Mitchell applied for a publican's license for a house at Jesmond, near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, April 17. (Before Mr. Jas Mair, P.M., and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P.
DRUNKENNESS.—Martin Dunbar had the previous night been having a glass too much and wended his way towards the wharf for the purpose of going to Sydney; but he…
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THE Victorian Attorney-General issued a license on Wednesday (says the Argus), on the application of the police, for the exhumation of the body of the girl Fears, who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, April 20. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., and Mr. D. Ludlow, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Dugald Cameron (not Sir. Dugald) and William Johnson, for being drunk, were both ordered to pay 10s or "go up" for 48 hours. A batch of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Circuit Court. Monday, April 20. (Before his Honour, Judge Windeyer.)
There were present at the opening of the Court the Crown Prosecutor, Mr. R. J. Browning, and the following barristers:—Messrs. F. E. Rogers, B. R. Wise, W…
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