Victoria. Melbourne, Wednesday. Sentenced to Death
At the Central Criminal Court to-day, Thomas Martin, caretaker of the Cambridge-street State School, Collingwood, was convicted of criminally…
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Courts & crime, 1887
522 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 27
District News. Wallsend. Police Court. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
THE only case yesterday was from Freshwater Creek, having reference to the detention of a goat. After hearing particulars, the P.M. ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, September 22Nd. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.m.) Drunkenness
Two inebriates were fined 10s each for alcoholic excess. RAILWAY OBSTRUCTION. Mr. George Bewick, Superintendent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, September 22Nd. (Before the Chairman, Mr. Mair, P.m.) Music and Dancing License
A music and dancing license for the 23rd instant was granted to Mr. David Thomas, of the Bricklayers' Arms Hotel, Glebe, upon the occasion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, September 23, 1887. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.M., and Mr. J. Thorn, J.p.) Drunkenness
THREE inebriates were fined small sums. DESERTION. Sichich Giacomo, Austrian seaman, was charged with deserting from the Austrian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Railway Disaster. a Gigantic Plan of Murder and Robbery
ONE of the most terrible railway disasters occurred, near Forrest, Illinois, about midnight on August 10. A train from Peoria, carrying, 600 excursionists to Raiagara Falls,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, September 24. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.M., and Mr. J. Thorn, J.p.). Drunkenness
Two offenders paid the usual penalty for the above offence. A SERIOUS CHARGE. James Gunning, 50 years of age,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District News. Wallsend. Police Court. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
It was my unfortunate experience to listen to the details of a family dispute that would have been better for all parties if it never had come into court…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, September 26. (Before Messrs. Jas. Mair, P.M., W.A. Sparke, and D. Ludlow, W. Lindus, and C. W. Morgan, J's.P.) DRUNKENNESS
OFFENDERS were convicted of the above offence, and were fined in various sums. OBSCENE LANGUAGE…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, September 27. (Before the Police Magistrate.) School Attendance Cases
MR. ABRAHAM S. LING, school attendance officer, proceeded by summons against several parents for neglecting to send their children to school…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Licensing Court. Tuesday, Sept. 27Th, 1887. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. K. Lochhead and Dr. C. W. Morgan, J.sP.) Charge of Sunday Selling Dismissed
MR. HENRY, SIMPSON, licensee of the Northumberland Hotel, Hunter-street, was summoned for keeping his licensed premises open on Sunday, September…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Western Australia. Perth, Tuesday. Stealing a Lugger
One of the Flowerdale, luggers, arrived at Cossack yesterday, with nine Macassar men on board. They report that they ran away with the vessel,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court. (Before Mr. Perrott, P.M., and Mr. R. Turton, J.P.)
Yesterday, William Bailey was charged with assaulting a Chinaman, named Quong Tart, at North Waratah…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, September 28. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.p.) That Free Fight
FIVE seamen, named Robert Hopkins, James M'Dade, Archibald M'Lean, Walter Murray, and Gilbert M'Creath, were charged with wilfully damaging…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, September 29. (Before the Police Magistrate.) DRUNKENNESS
Mathew Conroy and John Flaherty, seamen, were fined 10s and 20s respectively for being drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street at about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District Court Bailiffs
THE following letter, which speaks for itself, has been received by the bailiffs of the various District Courts throughout the colony:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, September 30Th. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.p.) Inebriety
ONE intoxicant was fined 5s, or 24 hours. ALLEGED ILLEGAL PAWNING. Charles Hunter, cabinetmaker, was charged, on remand from the previous day, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Raymond Terrace. Police Court, Sept. 30. (Before C. J. Middleton, P.M.)
WILLIAM LILLY was charged by his wife with deserting and leavinig her without means of support. Mr. C. W. Readett appeared for defendant,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, October 1. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.p.) Larceny As a Bailee
CHARLES HUNTER was charged, on remand, with having illegally pawned a quantity of carpenter's tools, the property of John Matters, at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tamworth Circuit Court
TAMWORTH CIRCUIT COURT.—The following sentences were recorded at the Tamworth Circuit Court on Saturday :—Frederick Carden, horse-stealing, three years'…
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