Alleged Assault
A case of assault, with attempt to commit a rape, is reported from Islington, where a man is said to have decoyed a woman into a tent, and there…
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Courts & crime, 1888
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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 2Nd, 1888. (Before Messrs. D. Ludlow and P. Bennett, J's.P.) Celebrating the New Year
Six inebriates, who bade farewell to the old year in too alcoholic a manner, were fined. A very old offender was again before the court for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, January 3Rd, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., G. C. Martin and W. H. Shaw, J.sP.) Obscene Language
WILLIAM BROWN, a seaman, was charged with using obscene language in Hunter-street the previous night, at 10 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, January 4Th, 1888. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Riotous Behaviour
Edward Euston and John Ryan, seamen, were charged with behaving in a riotous manner in Watt-street the previous night. Accused pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Latest District News. Waratah. Licensing Court
ON Wednesday, before Messrs. Perrott, P.M., R. Turton, and T. Croudace, J's.P., Charles Pressland, of minmi, applied for a conditional publican's license for a house to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, January 5Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., W. K. Lochhead and J. Thorn, J's.P.) ALCOHOLISM
ONE inebriate was fined. ASSAULT. William Steward, a seaman, was charged with assaulting Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, January 5Th, 1888. (Before the P.M., chairman, and W. K. Lockhead, J.p.) Transfers
THE license of the Castlemaine Hotel, Hamilton-road, was transferred from G. T. Lloyd to T. F. Todd, there being no police objection…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lambton. Police Court
Yesterday, before Mr. Perrott, P.M., John Jackson, charged with unlawfully assaulting Henry Weiring at New Lambton on Christmas Eve, pleaded guilty. It appears the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, January 7, 1888. (Before the Police Magistrate.) DRUNKENNESS
Two inebriates were fined. ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES. Wm. M. Rogers, a steward, was charged, on remand from December…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 9, 1888. (Before Messrs. D. Ludlow and P. Bennett, Js.P.) DRUNKENNESS
FOUR alcoholists were fined for excess. NOT PROVEN. Frank Romley was charged, on remand from the 2nd instant, with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, January 10, 1888
THE Police Magistrate, with Messrs. G. C. Martin and W. H. Shaw, Js.P., opened the court, but there was no business with the exception of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Monday. Another Member of Parliament Sent to Gaol
Timothy Harrington, member for Dublin Harbour, and a prominent member of the National League, has been sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment under the provisions of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder of an Englishman at the New Hebrides
THE Caledonien has brought to Noumea the news of the murder of Mr. Vernon Leo Walker by the natives of Steep Cliff Bay, in the Island of Pentecost, New Hebrides. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, January 12, 1888. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Alleged Theft
HARRIET BAYLEY, alias Berwick, described as a servant, aged 20, was charged with stealing from the dwelling of Charles Carlson, at Stockton,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District News. Wallsend. Police Court. (Before R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
WILLIAM LOCHRIN, caretaker of the Wallsend School of Arts, sued Caleb Mathews for an assault on the 26th December, committed in the School of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, January 12. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., Chairman, W. K. Lochhead, and Dr. C. W. Morgan, Js.P.)
The first quarterly meeting for 1888 was held yesterday, when Inspector Brennan and Sub-inspector Lynch presented their report for the quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, January 13Th, 1888. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Theft at Stockton
HARRIET BAYLEY, alias Berwick, was charged, on remand from the previous day, with stealing a silver watch and a gold chain and trinket, valued at £4 10s, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In Court
Mr. Dion Boucicault, the well-known dramatist and actor, has appealed against the divorce action brought against him by his wife being postponed for six months. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, January 14, 1888. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Drunk and Disorderly
JOHN KENNEDY, a painter, was fined £1, or seven days' gaol, for being drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street the previous night. Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 16, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., P. Bennett and D. Ludlow, Js.P.) DRUNKENNESS
EIGHT inebriates were fined small amounts. One of the accused was arrested on the Market Wharf by Constable Olson, after several…
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