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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 30
Patrick Burns, a seaman, hailing from Lake Macquarie, was seperately charged with being drunk on Sunday, for which he was fined 10s or 7 days, for using indecent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four prisoners pleaded guilty to having partaken of the cup that inebriates, and were fined. PROFANE LANGUAGE…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN unusually large number of inebriates occupied the dock and pleaded guilty to the charge of drunkenness. All were fined or relegated back to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Isaac Lee, a coloured man, was charged with using profane language in Watt street on Tuesday night, and pleaded not guilty. He was also…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The inquest on the body of Rhoda Caroline Reynolds was resumed to- day. Her husband, Alfred Reynolds, is committed for trial for wilful murder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The only cased to-day at this place of resort was Thomas Hitchcock a respectable citizen residing in Devon-street, who was arrested the previous evening for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THIS was an application to set aside a writ of scire facias. The writ, which was issued at the instance of the Attorney-General, who was set in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Friday, before Mr. Perrott, P.M., two offenders for using obsence and profane language at New Lambton, were each fined 20s, with costs. William Scholes, against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Henry Roberts, found guilty of the Oxford-street jewellery robberies, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following expressions of opinion were given yesterday to a member of our staff, although not precisely in the words here given, but to the same purport. Our…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THERE was only one prisoner charged with this offence. BREACHES OF THE EDUCATION ACT. There were 14 defendants summoned for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The seven anarchists who took a leading part in the Chicago riots, have been found guilty and sentenced to death…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ONLY one prisoner was brought up on this charge, and, pleading guilty, paid the usual fine. THE ROBBERY IN PERKIN-STREET…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the inquest on the body of the infant found in Sussex-street, a verdict of wilful murder against some person unknown was returned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The only case to-day was William Lumsdaine, charged with using bad language on the Newcastle-road last Saturday; fined 10s…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FOUR culprits were fined for excessive indulgence. Thomas Horsefield, who has frequently been before the court, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the Petty Session held at Staines, England, lately, before Sir John Gibbons and a bench of magistrates, Robert Henry Chion, a respectably dressed young man,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the divorce case Cox v. Cox and Hunter a dissolution of the marriage was granted. Damages are assessed at £300 against the co-respondent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A trio of miserable looking individuals who had been worshipping too freely at the shrine of Bacchus, stood in the prisoners' box to pay penance,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ANNIE FOSBERRY, a well-dressed but rather dissipated looking young woman, was charged with having been drunk, and with having used indecent…
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