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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
614 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 31
THREE drunks were summarily dealt with, and were mulct in the usual fine, or, in default, twenty-four hours' in the cells. Shortness of cash being a prevalent disease…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Court re-opened at 10 o'clock. ACQUITTED. Thomas Williams, who was arraigned on a charge of assault upon Williamn Gallaghan,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YESTERDAY being the day for the annual meeting of the Licensing Court, 107 applications for the renewal of licenses were granted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON Thursday there was a regular field-day, and in consequence of the interesting cases to be heard the court was crowded from the opening till 6 p.m., when the business of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DESPITE the civilizing attempts of the French, life in the Royal Palace of Hun continues unchanged. The King's harem is composed of a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A TRIO of inebriates who had been imbibing too freely on the night previous, and who had been kindly taken in charge by the police, preparatory to an introduction to their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GEORGE BUNN, the license of the Great Britain Hotel, was charged with the above offence. Defendant pleaded guilty of intention. He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EMERSON DIXON, who pleaded guilty to having stolen a quantity of tools at Newcastle, was sentenced to eight months' hard labour in Maitland gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest on the male child which was found in Hurtle-square, resulted in a verdict of wilful murder against some person unknown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOUR drunks were brought up to face stern justice, and to hear the inevitable fiat of the Bench; 5s, or twenty-four hours. As this class of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six of them were brought up to answer to the above charge. Four were fined 5s each or twenty-four hours, for being drunk in the streets…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A NUMBER of unimportant and undefended cases were dealt with by their Worships yesterday, after the police court proceedings…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SEVERAL drunks were brought up for imbibing too freely, and the usual 5s, or, in default, twenty-four hours' in the cells…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR. CROWTHER, an old man, was charged with being insane and unfit to be at large. Constable Daly deposed that from information he received from Mrs. Crowther, he…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THREE drunks were brought up to be dealt with, and were fined 5s each; or, in default, twenty-four hours in the cells…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE following appeals were heard against alleged excessive rating in the municipality of Merewether:— Charles Don's annual value rate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Inspector Grennan put in forty-nine applications for renewals of publicans' licenses, recommending them as good.—Granted. Also five applications for renewals of wine…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THREE drunks were brought up and fined in the usual amount, 5s; or, in default, twenty-four hours in the cells. Another, on bail, was fined 10s; or,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN ASHCROFT, a miner hailing from Minmi, was charged with stealing a fish valued at 3d from the oyster shop of Nicholas Pisculich, at about 12…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. John Dillon, M.P., who received sentence of six months in May last, had the sentence confirmed, and to be imprisoned in Dundalk gaol…
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