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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 30
THE suspect in custody of the police here on the charge of having murdered Robert Taylor on the Great Barrier Reef Island has admitted his name as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Te Whiti, the Maori prophet, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and a fine of £100. Titikowarrau is sentenced to one months'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A police officer is to be despatched to Sydney to bring back John Caffrey, arrested for the Great Barrier Island murder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Friday, before Mr. R. J. Perrott, P.M., Joseph Lowther was charged with using certain language to one Charles Driver, at New Lambton, on the 29th September,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHAS. WILLIAMS w[?]s charged with having been drunk in Cooper-street, Bullock Island. He was fined 5s. There was a further charge against him of having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Wednesday, before Mr. Perrott, P M., the Waratah Council's summonses against ratepayers in arrears were heard. The most of the parties had paid in to court. In…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →James Mansfield, an American, has been arrested in Castlereagh street, after an exciting chase, for attempting to murder by shooting one John…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A YOUNG man named George Harrison was charged with having stolen a silver watch, value £3, the property of George Chop[?]e, on board the steamer Namoi on the trip…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two brothers, aged respectively 16 and 18, named Samuel and Michael Lecourt, were caught in the act of stealing sheep and skinning them near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →John Dillon sued his wife for vagrancy. A deal of evidence to support this charge was given pro and con, when the J.P. dismissed the case…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JAMES BROOKS was fined £2 or fourteen days for hating used indecent language in Blane-street on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following is a complete list of cases, criminal and civil, set down for trial at the Maitland Circuit Court before his Honor, Mr. Acting Judge M. H. Stephen. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ONLY one offenper stood in the dock to answer to the above offence, and he was mulcted in the usual sum. STEALING…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Monday morning the man John Caffery alias Joe Adams, who was charged on suspicion with being identical with the person who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A TRIO of gentlemen who had been imbibing to excess, and thereby lost their equilibrium, were fined in the usual sums, with the option of 24…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Friday, before Mr. Perrott, P.M., one offender was fined for using obscene language at Charlestown. A hawker's license was granted to Charles Healey, of Lambton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE sittings of the Maitland Circuit Court were opened yesterday at the court house, East Maitland, by his Honor Acting-Judge Matthew Stephen. Mr. Brooks, P.M.,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A LICENSING COURT was held yesterday afternoon before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead. Renewals were granted as follows:—Martin Kano, Coffee…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There was only one case of drunkenness dealt with. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. James Smith, for using obscene language,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →M. Duval, the proprietor of the well-known restaurants scattered, under his name, throughout the French capital, has been sued by a Mme. Lafitte, a…
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