Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, 29Th June, 1886. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.m.) Drunkennese
THERE were three cases of drunkenness brought up, which were dealt with in the usual form. NO HOME…
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Courts & crime, 1886
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Greta. Petty Debts Court
J. Taylor sued R. M'Mahon for 8s 6d, value of tools. Judgment for plainriff, 6s costs. A number of other cases were struck…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, 30Th June, 1886. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.m.) Disorderly Conduct
Thomas Thomas, a seaman, was charged with disorderly conduct on board the barque Lorna Doone, and pleaded not guilty. Captain Lynn, master of the Lorna…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Licensing Court. Tuesday, 29Th June. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.M., Dr. Morgan, and W.K. Lochhead, J's.P.)
An adjourned Licensing Court was held at 11 o'clock. The first case was that of William Brown, Clyde Hotel. The objection…
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The American steamer Golden Gate has arrived at Cooktown, and reports the murder of Captain Kahler, of the American schooner New York, of San Francisco,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court House Laxity
IN another column appears a letter from a correspondent respecting the manner of conducting affiliation and similar cases in the Newcastle Police Court. No doubt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, 1St July, 1886. (Before Messrs. James Mair, P.M. and George Donald, J.p.) Drunkenness
Four defendants pleaded guilty to inebriety, and were fined 5s each. INDEECENT EXPOSURE. Frederick Leonard pleaded guilty to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Licensing Court. Thursday, July 1. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.M.)
AN application was made for the transfer of the license of the Hunt Club Hotel from Mr. M. Moroney to Mr. George Hudson, and of the Rouse…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CORRESPONDENCE. Court House Laxity. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
DEAR SIR,—I had occasion to visit our local Police Court on Wednesday afternoon last, and was much surprised and disgusted with the proceedings. A young girl, 18…
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J. Smith, who was charged with larceny of 21 dozen pairs of gloves from the Customs' "shed, asserted that he merely took them to show how easy it is to rob…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District News. Wallsend. Police Court—saturday (Before R. J. Perrott, P.M.)
EDWARD MURRAY, charged with obscene language, and also with using profane language in the Wallsend Colliery Inn, was fined £1 in each case…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, July 5Th. (Before Messrs, James, Mair, P.M.) and D. Ludlow J.p.) Drunkenness
Five defendants pleaded guilty to drunkenness, and were tined. INDECENT LANGUAGE. Michael Cochrane, for making use of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, July 6th. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.m.) Drunkenness
Nine prisoners were charged with drunkenness, and pleading guilty were fined in small sums. INDECENT EXPOSURE…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lambton. Police Court
On Wednesday, before Mr. R. J. Perrott, P.M., George Wilson was charged [?] using threats to his wife on the [?]ous day at Lambton…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Frightful Murder
THE trial of a man for murdering a traveller in a railway train has just been concluded at the Seine et Marne Assizes at Melun. A. coachman named…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murder Confessed
MR. Hugh Brooks, alias Maxwell, on his trial in America for the murder of Mr. Arthur Preller, has confessed to having caused the death of the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, July 7th. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.m.) Drunkenness
Six cases of drunkenness were disposed of by the infliction of small fines for short terms of detention OBSCENE LANGUAGE…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Suspected Murder at Wellington, N.z
THE body of a man named Mullens, who formerly kept the Clyde Quay Hotel at Oriental Bay, was taken out of the harbour, close to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →District News. Wallsend. Police Court
At the Police Court, on Thursday, before Mr. R J. Perrott, P.M., Thomas Llewllyn, a carter, for riding on his dray without having reins attached to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Murder and Suicide
ON Monday morning, May 24th, Mr. William Carter, coroner, resumed the inquiry as to the deaths of James William Clarke, aged 49 years, and…
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