Cablegrams. London, Sunday. the Nihilists and the Police
SEVERAL dynamite factories, controlled by Nihilists, have boon discovered in St. Petersburg. Severe fighting took place between the Nihilists and the…
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Courts & crime, 1887
522 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 27
Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, December 6. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., G. C. Martin, and W. H. Shaw, J's.P.) DRUNKENNESS
Two inebriates were fined. A CURIOUS CASE. Thomas Donnelly, a seaman, was charged with using obscene language…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 7. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and P. Bennett, J.p.) Alleged Riotous Behaviour
Edward M'Laren, a seaman, was charged with behaving in a riotous manner in Blane-street the previous night. Accused pleaded not guilty,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Pleasant Police Court Incident
RARELY are the prosy proceedings of a police court relieved by a pleasanter incident than that in which Sir James Ingham, Miss Ada Ward, and Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, December 8. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.p.) Inebriety
ONE drunkard was fined. INDECENT BEHAVIOUR. Michael Ryan, a labourer, was charged with behaving in an indecent…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court. (Before Messrs. R. I. Perrott, P.M., R. P. House, J.P., and J. Y. Neilson, J.P.)
George M'Cormack, a boy was charged with assaulting Ah Lung. Mr. Gorrick, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the defendant, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →District News. Wallsend. Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
THERE was a large number of small debt court cases, including several defaulting ratepayers from both Councils. In one case of the…
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HIS Honor Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson will resume the sittings of the Newcastle District Court this morning, at 10 o'clock, when judgment in the case of Greenwood v…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 9Th, 1887. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.p.) Insobriety
FOUR drunkards were fined for too ardent a worship of the rosy god. RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR. John Brown and Thomas Williams,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, December 10. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Martin, J.p.) Drunk
ONE individual was fined 5s, or twenty-four hours, for having given way to alcoholic excess. TRAVELLING ON THE CHEAP…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →District Court, Newcastle. Saturday, December 10, 1887. (Before His Honor Judge Wilkinson.) GREENWOOD V. Municipality of Adamstown
HIS Honor delivered judgment herein in favour of the plaintiff for £18 damages and costs. His Honor said he had nothing to do with the contest between owners of land and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Important Cable News. Deliberate Attempt to Murder M. Jules Ferry. A Would-be Assassin Fires at Him Several Times. Saved by Thick Clothing. Political Crisis in France. Another Arrest of a Nationalist. The Wool Sales. Russian Journals on the War Scare. (Received 1.30 a.m. Monday.) LONDON
THE present series Of colonial wool auctions closed to-day. A good demand was evinced for most descriptions. Prices generally were very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Moonlighters Sentenced
Five of the eight moonlighters charged with the murder of Head-constable Whelahan, at Lis-doonvarna, on October 7th, have been convicted…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Tassifern Stealing Case and Attempted Suicide
The report of this case, which appeared in yesterday's Herald and Advocate, is one of those accidents which will happen in the best regulated of families, as the saying goes. It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District News. Wallsend. Police Court. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
HENRY BURT, on bail, was charged with making use of obscene language, resisting the police, and damaging the uniform of the arresting constable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, December 12. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., and P. Bennett and D. Ludlow, J.'sP.) DRUNK
A MAN pleaded guilty to having imbibed too freely, and had to pay the usual fine of 5s. or to undergo 24 hours' retirement…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle District Court. Monday, December 12. (Before His Honor Judge Wilkinson.) George Young V. Ah Hee
THIS action for malicious prosecution, arising out of the recent sly-grog cases, was resumed from Saturday. The damages were assessed by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle District Court. Tuesday, December 13. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson.) George Young V. Ah Hee
THIS case, which was an action for malicious prosecution arising out of the recent Chinese sly-grog selling cases, was resumed for the defence, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle District Court. Wednesday, December 14. (Before His Honor Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson.)
THE Court was resumed shortly after 10 o'clock, when in the cases of George Young v. Low Low, Sam Lee Wood, and Ah Hee, Judge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 14. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., G. C. Martin, and W. H. Shaw, Js.P.) Furious Riding
JOSEPH ORR, a boy, was fined 10s for furious riding at the Glebe on the 7th inst. Constable Dawson gave evidence. BREACHERS OF BY-LAWS…
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