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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
614 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 31
Emmerson Dixon pleaded guilty to being drunk and using obscene language in Pearson-street, on Saturday night. On promising to don the blue, and seeing that he was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →EIGHT persons were fined the usual small amounts for indulgence in alcoholic liquors. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THREE inebriates were fined. A. DRUNKEN LINGUIST. Henry Martin, seaman, pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thomas Tunney was charged with drunkenness in Morehead-street, Lambton, on Tuesday night. Defendant pleaded guilty. It being his first appearance, he was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FIVE persons were fined for this offence. ALLEGED THEFT OF A NEWSPAPER. Joseph James Brenkworth,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THIS was a case of breach of agreement in which the defendant had undertaken to build a house for a stated sum, and failed to complete his contract…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOUR persons were fined for drunkenness. DISOBEDIENCE OF ORDERS. Henry Kilstain, a German seaman,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A BILLIARD license was granted to Edward Scott, licensee of the Belle Vue Hotel, Charlton-street, there being no police objection…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Robert Bounty pleaded guilty to the above charge on the 27th ult. at Charlestown, and of using obscene language on the 28th ult. at the same place. Fined 28th and costs, or…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A WOMAN named Handel and her daughter have just been convicted by the Assize Court of the Seine Inferieure in France of having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two inebriates were fined. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Richard Johnson, a labourer, was fined 20s, or seven days gaol, for being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WILLIAM COLLINS, on remand, charged with leaving without adequate means of support his illegitimate child at Clifton, was remanded to Clifton to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Several cases were disposed of for small amounts, only one case being nonsuited. SLANDER…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FIVE persons were fined for this offence. RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR. George Cawthorne and Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THREE persons were fined for this offence. INDECENCY. Samuel Lewis, a labourer, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →George Grant, aged 60 years, and an old resident, was brought up as a person deemed to be insane and not under proper control. Sergeant…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR. JAMES MAIR, P.M., as Commissioner of Insolvent Estates, presided yesterday at a meeting of the local Insolvency Court, held in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE application of James Smallcombe, licensee of the Imperial Hotel, Merewether, for a music license for Friday next, upon the occasion of an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Matthew Sharples, a sinker, pleaded guilty to a charge of having used indecent language in a public place near Mr. Sneddon's Hall, New Lambton,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →[?]UR persons were fined for drunkenness. DESTROYING GOVERNMENT PROPERTY. Andrew Beck, seaman, was fined 20s, with [?]6d for the damage done, in default…
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