Victoria. Melbourne, Wednesday. The Supreme Court
Dr. Madden has been appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria…
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Courts & crime, 1886
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 30
Gaol Breakers
Two prisoners, named Alf. Murley and John Duffy—the former under three years' sentence—have escaped from Windsor gaol by cutting a hole…
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John Dawson, a wheeler, working at the Wallsend Colliery, pleaded guilty to the charge of cruelly illtreating horse. The information was…
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A MEETING of the creditor in the insolvent estate of Mr. Richard Moore, late of the Coffee Palace, was held yesterday before Mr. Mair, P.M. The following debts were…
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On Friday, before Mr. Perrott, P.M., Michael Sheedy and Benjamin Walker were charged with riotous behaviour in a public place on the 10th inst. Fined £1 each…
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Captain Thomas, of the cutter Smuggler, was murdered by natives of the Vanderlin Islands on the 4th ult…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, September 17. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.m.) a P[?]able Case
A respectably dressed and decent looking young man named George Welters was charged with having been drunk in Hunter-street at one o'clock in the morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, September 18. (Before Mr. Mair, P.m.) Drunkenness
An elderly man named Thomas Crennan, who appeared to be tremulous and excited from the effects of drink, was charged with having been drunk…
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ON Saturday evening a number of citizens assembled at the Terminus Hotel for the purpose of presenting Mr. Thorpe with a purse of soversigns,…
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Sullivan is again on trial to-day for the murder of his infant, a month old. The case has not concluded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District News. Wallsend. Police Court. (Before Mr. R. J. Perrott, P.M.)
GEORGE TAYLOR was charged with being drunk in Nelson-street on Saturday evening. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £2, or seven days. He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, Sept. 20Th (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and D. Ludlow, Captain O'Sullivan, and A. Brown, Js.P.) SHOP-LIFTING
Two men named Wm. Thompson and Michael Walsh were charged, on remand, with having stolen a suit of clothes, value £1 15s, from outside a…
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Chas. Jones, under sentence of 14 years' imprisonment for wounding with intent to murder, has died in gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Newtown Murder
At a meeting of the Executive Council it was decided to carry out the death sentence passed upon George Reynolds for the murder of his wife at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday. Murder and Suicide
Wm. Williams cut his wife's throat at an oyster shop in Elizabeth-street, Melbourne, and nearly severed the head from the body, and afterwards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle District Court
His Honor Judge Wilkinson yesterday resumed the hearing of the cases that remained on the list when his honor went to Maitland for the Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, 21St September. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.m.) Out During the Night
John Sharp, a lad of eight years of age, who had been brought to the lock up for protection, was discharged on his relatives agreeing to look after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle District Court. (Before his Honor Judge Wilkinson.)
His Honor entered court at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, and resumed the hearing of the case of LEACOCK v. KERR, CHARLTON, AND…
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The business at the Police Court to-day was unimportant, and of no public interest…
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A verdict of wilful murder against Benjamin Joseph has been returned at the inquest on the body of William Lipman, the victim of the…
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