Cowardly Attacks on the Police
For some nights past the police stationed in Darby sad Blane streets have been subjected to much abuse and ill-use at the hands of a number of larrikins who frequent the…
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Courts & crime, 1888
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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, July 16Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. D. Ludlow, G. C. Martin, and P. Bennett, Js.P.) INEBRIETY
FOUR persons were fined for drunkenness. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. James Donaldson, a miner, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, July 17Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin and W. H. Shaw, J.'s.P.) INEBRIETY
A TRIO of persons suffering from the effects of overnight's carousal in alcoholic liquors was fined. INDECENT BEHAVIOUR…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, July 18Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin, Chairman, W. H. Shaw, D. Murray, and J. Thorn, J's.P.) DRUNKENNESS
ONE inebriate was fined. ALLEGED THEFT. James Hogwood was charged, on remand, with stealing 7s 6d, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, July 19Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin (Chairman), W. H. Shaw, and D. Murray, Js.P.) ALCOHOLISM
Two persons were fined for drunkenness. PROFANE LANGUAGE. James Young, a seaman, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, July 19, 1888. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.M., and Dr. C. W. Morgan, J.p.) Sunday Selling
THOMAS F. TODD, licensee of the Castlemaine Hotel, Charlton-street, pleaded guilty to the above offence, and was fined £3, with 5s 6d costs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, July 20Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.p.) Drunkenness
THE only person before the Bench for drunkenness was "Lady" Mary Munro, who was fined 10s, or 48 hours' gaol. "Her ladyship" promised to take the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, July 21, 1888. (Before the Police Magistrate.) DESERTION
PATRICK BURNS, a seaman, pleaded guilty to a charge of deserting from the barque Copsefield, at Newcastle, on the 19th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Reward to the Police
The Government have voted a sum of £300 to be distributed among the police who were successful in capturing the two American dynamiters,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, July 23, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and D. Ludlow, J.p.) Inebriety
ONE inebriate was fined for alcoholic excess. "D AND D." David Tarrant, a labourer, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →District News. Wallsend. Police Court. (Before R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
JOSEPH HARPER was charged with forging and uttering a cheque drawn on the Bank of New Zealand, Newcastle, value £70 10s, purporting to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, July 24, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., G. C. Martin, and W. H. Shaw, Js.P.) DRUNKENNESS
THREE persons were fined for this offence. PROTECTION. William Pearce, a boy 9 years of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Waratah. Police Court.—wednesday. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
William Whiteman, John Calvert, and James Simpson were charged under the new by-laws with having allowed their horses to stray in the streets of the municipality…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Licensing Court. Wednesday, July 25Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., G. C. Martin, and D. Murray, Js.P.) DRUNKENNESS
ONE inebriate was fined. BAD LANGUAGE. Patrick Box, a seaman, was fined £2, or three weeks' gaol, for using…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend Police Court. (Before R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
At the court yesterday, Constable Danks, from Teralba, had another field day. Robert Hetherington, hailing from that district, was charged with making use of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, July 26, 1888. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.m.) Drunkenness
SEVEN persons were fined for drunkenness. RESISTANCE. Edward Griffiths, a carter, was…
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A MAN named William Hancock was keeper of a colonial wine shop at the mail change near the Culpaulin boundary on the Menindie-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →District News. Wallsend. Police Court. (Before R. I. Perrott, P.M., and Thomas Fryar, J.P.)
JAMES SNEDDON was Charged with stealing a black mare, unbranded, the property of Joseph Pigott Tyler, of Wallsend. Sergeant Grennan deposed that about 10…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, July 27Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.p.) Drunkenness
FOUR persons were fined for inebriety. INDECENT LANGUAGE. Martin Burgesson, a seaman, was fined £2, or fourteen days' gaol, for using indecent…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, July 28, 1888. Inebriated
A FEMALE was charged with drunkenness. Fined 5s, or twenty-four hours. DESERTION. John Sodergast, seaman, was charged…
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