Lady Charged with Swindling
A Melbourne correspondent reports that a very fashionably attired yonng lady named Marion Turner, oly 23 years of age, said to be a governess, was apprehended on…
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Courts & crime, 1886
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 30
Police Court. Friday, June 18Th. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.m.) Drunkenness
M[?]y Ann Smith made her regular visit to the Police Court yesterday, and then retired for twenty-'our hours' s[?]clusion. PROTECTION…
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ABOUT 7 o'clock on Saturday morning late a report was made to Constable Smith, of Darby-street that three Chinamen had been violently assaulted and maltreated and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court. Saturday, June 19Th. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.m.) Drunkenness
Only one offender, a female, was dealt with in the customary manner. ALLEGED STEALING. Emily Goggin, a woman of rather…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 21. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.M., and D. Ludlow, J.p.) Drunkenness and Obscene Language
Margaret Kelly pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and was fined 5s. or 24 hours' imprisonment, also to a second charge of using obscene…
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WHEN Pascoe, the defaulting cashier of the A.S.N. Company, was brought before the Police Court recently, the following gentlemen were on the bench…
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News has been received at Auckland of a dreadful muder, committed on Great Barrier Island. John Caffrey, master of the schooner Sovereign of the Seas, shot a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, 22nd JUNE. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.m) Indecent Language
A girl named Sarah Cameron, about 15 years of age, pleaded guilty to this offence, and was fined £3 or two months imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, 23rd JUNE. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.m) Drunkenness
Four cues of drunkenness were dealt with, the usual fines being imposed. TRAVELLING WITIIOUT PAYMIENT OF FARES…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Zealand. Auckland, Wednesday. Wilful Murder
A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against Caffrey and Penn, of the cutter Sovereign of the Seas, who shot a settler at the Great Barrier Island, near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, June 25. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.m) Stealing
James Beeston, dealer, was charged with fraudently appropriating a van to his own use, the property of one Sarah Gleesson, on the 4th inst., and subsequently offering…
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WILLIAM ARTHUR Cook, a young man, formerly in the employ of Messrs. Alston and Brown, was on Friday convicted at the Supreme Court of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Licensing Court. (Before Messrs, James Mair, P.M., W.K. Lochhe[?]d, and Dr. Morgan, J's.P.) Applications for Renewal of Wine Licenses
Thomas Burnage, Market-street, Newcastle. Granted. Margaret Roper, Stockton. Granted. ADJOURNED CASES…
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A terrible tragedy was enacted at Richmond last night. A man named Thomas Taylor, residing in Lennox street, is said to have had a quarrel with his wile while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, June 26. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.m.) Drunkenness
FIVE charges of drunkenness in the main street were made against defendants, who pleaded guilty, and were fined. OBSCENE LANGUAGE…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District News. Wallsend. Police Court. Saturday, June 26. (Before R. J. Perrott, P.M., and Dr. J. B. Nash, JP.)
William O'Grady, charged with being drunk, a new arrival from Queensland, was discharged with a caution…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court. Monday. (Before R. J. Perrott, P.M., and James Richardson, J.P.)
William M'Pherson was fined 5s for using indecent language; fine paid, Edward Ridley, a recent arrival, pleaded guilty to indecent exposure in Kemp-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, 28Th June, 1886. (Before Messrs. James Mair, P.M., and D. Ludlow, J.p.) Drunkenness
Several defendants pleaded guilty to this offence and were fined 10 or 48 hours each. RIOTOUS CONDUCT…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Licensing Court. Before Messrs. James Mair, P.M., Dr. Morgan, and W. K. Lochhead, Js.P. the Limerick Hotel
THE Licensing Bench sat at noon yesterday, and transferred Mr. James M'Connell's license of the Limerick Hotel, Bolton-street, Newcastle, to…
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Before Messrs J. N. Brooks, P.M., R. Doyle, Green, and Osborne, JS. P. Henry Cane, an elderly man, was charged with larceny of a shirt and pair of trousers…
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