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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1886

585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 30 of 30

Extraordinary Scene in a Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 December 1886 · page 7

THE extraordinary cases in which a barrister named Stanbry Eardley was charged with assaulting his father's servants was the other week concluded…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, Dec. 28. (Before Mr. W. K. Lochhead and Dr. Morgan.) DRUNK

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 December 1886 · page 3

FOUR prisoners were fined for this offence. ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO ROB. Thomas Swindon was charged with…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, Dec. 29. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., Clarence Hannell, and W. H. Shaw, J's.P.) DESERTION

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 December 1886 · page 3

WILLIAM ROBINSON pleaded guilty to the charge of having deserted from the British ship Wallacetown, commanded by Captain Wortley. He was…

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District News. Wallsend. Police Court—wednesday, 28Th December. (Before R. J. Perrott, P.M)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 December 1886 · page 3

JOHN LEES was charged with assaulting and robbing one James Caines, from railway works, Lake Macquarie. From information received…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, Dec. 30Th. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., G. Donald, W. K. Lochhead, and Dr. Morgan.) DRUNK

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 December 1886 · page 3

THERE were six cases of drunkenness before the court. UNSOUND MIND. Wm. Bryant was brought up for…

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