Horrors of the Police Courts
THE indescribable outrage of last week in a cell at the principal house of preliminary detention in the colony will furnish food for a few days' wonder…
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Courts & crime, 1888
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Alleged Brutal Assault
AT about half-past 8 o'clock yesterday morning a Malay named Montsigne, 25 years of age, an able seaman on the Dutch ship Francois, now lying in the harbour, was…
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Mr. T. Johnson and Mr. J. Patrick, council clerk and valuator, appeared on behalf of the Council. There were thirty-nine appeals, one being struck…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, May 29. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
William Russell was charged with using obscene language on Sunday night last. Fined 10s and costs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, May 29. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.M., and Messrs. W. H. Shaw, and J. Thorn, Js.P.) DRUNKENNESS
FIVE offenders were fined in the usual amount. OBSCENITY. Mary Simmonds, for having used…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jack and Bess. Chapter Xliii. After the Court-martial
THUS ended the court-martial; thus was made grievous shipwreck of a gallant youth's ambition, his honour, and his life; yet, as to his honour,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, May 30. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.M., and Messrs J. Thorn, and G. C. Martin, Js.P.) DRUNKENNESS
Joseph S. Johnson, a warehouseman, was charged, on remand from the 23rd inst., with feloniously stealing a cheque for £4 16s, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, May 31. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.m.) the Drink
FOUR inebriates wore fined the usual amounts for excess in liquor. A GANG OF ROBBERS. John Green was charged with…
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NEXT Monday the June sittings of our local District Court will commence. Since the last sittings upwards of eighty cases have been entered, but fifty of these have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court.—friday. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M., and Mr T. Grierson, J.P.)
Marshall Broyden was charged with assaulting a Chinaman named Ah Chee. Mr. Gorrick appeared for the defendant. It was elicited from the evidence that on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, June 1St. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., J. Thorn, and W. Sparke, J's.P.) ALCOHOLISM
A very dirty and disreputable looking man, named Walter Rutledge, was charged with having no lawful means of support…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, June 2Nd. (Before the Police Magistrate.) INEBRIETY
Donald Stewart, a seaman, was fined £2, in default fourteen days' imprisonment, for indecent language in Scott-street on Friday night…
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A DESPERATE case of assault and robbery occurred about half-past 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon at Hamilton, which, for audacity, has very seldom been paralleled. It appears…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 4. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.m.) Drunkenness
A QUINTETTE of offenders bowed their obeisance, and were fined in the usual sums. BAD LANGUAGE…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle District Court. First Day. Monday, June 4Th, 1888
HIS Honor Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson took his seat at 10 o'clock The barristers present were, Messrs. W. Edmunds, Colonna-Close, Wilfred…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Killing No Murder
IN the perilous times before the English Revolution, a political tract was published bearing the above ugly title. The term has been recently revived by the grave and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambton. Police Court. Tuesday, June 5Th. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
Frank Gouch, a Maltese, was charged with being a person deemed to be insane and wandering at large. Constable Ratcliffe deposed that on Sunday afternoon the accused…
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Four cases were disposed of by the P.M. with the usual costs. The court then rose…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, June 5. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., and W. H. Shaw, J.p.) Alcoholists
FIVE persons were fined for drunkenness. ASSAULT. Charles Henry Williams, a seaman…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A New Court-house for Newcastle
TIMES without number have we urged upon the Government the necessity of proceeding without delay with the erection of a new Court-house for much-neglected Newcastle…
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