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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
614 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 31
Joseph Simmons, labourer, was fined 20s, or seven days' gaol, for being drunk and disorderly in King-street the previous night. Constable Butler arrested…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THERE drunkards were fined small amounts for alcoholic excess. LOITERING. Benjamin Coombes was summoned by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is reported that a hundred-weight of dynamtie and a number of bombs have been seized at a suburban police station in St. Petersburg…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN JENKINS, a boy under 16 years of age, was charged with wandering about, the streets. Constable Clark deposed to arresting the boy at Mr. Willis', near Wallsend,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two inebriates were fined. One of them, Edward Black, a builder, presented a most dilapidated appearance, his face being a mass of sears and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DAVID WHITHAM was granted a bagatelle license for the London Tavern. BOOTH LICENSE. George Bunn applied for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THREE drunkards were fined. BRUTAL ASSAULT. James Watson, a groom, was charged with assaulting Constable Hatherly, whilst in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ONLY one offender appeared to pay penance for having imbibed excessively. NEIGHBOURS' QUARREL…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FIVE persons, for indulgence in the "rosy," were fined small amounts. Among them was a well-known inebriate, Thomas Cleary, whose ter-centenary of charges of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tom White, otherwise known as George White, was brought up in custody, and charged on suspicion of having stolen a black horse, branded S in a circle on the near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the summons case of Thomas Bell v. Wm. Cuttler, for insulting language in the bar of the Royal Hotel, Adamstown, on the 13th instant, there were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Richard Lewis, a seaman, was charged with deserting from the British registered barque Gayton, at Newcastle, on the 21st inst., but the charge was withdrawn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maxwell, the man who murdered Mr. Preller in St. Louis, and put the body in a trunk, has failed in his final appeal to the Missouri Supreme…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four masked men stuck up the bank at Indiania. The cashier, while attempting to resist, was murdered. The robbers, after securing all their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A LUCKY capture of a well-known Victorian offender was effected in George-street, near Hunter-street, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning by senior detective-sergeant O'Donnell, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is reported that 200 Armenians have been arrested, at the instance of the Sultan of Turkey, on charges of treason…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOUR inebriates were fined for excessive alcoholic centennial celebrations. One of the quartette was the well-known Mary Hurley, whose record in the Court is a long one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Armidale correspondent of the Star gives the following particulars of what is evidently a cold-blooded murder:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ONE inebriate was fined 5s, or twenty-four hours. OBSCENE LANUAGE. James Taylor, seaman, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FOUR inebriates were fined. MALICIOUS INJURY. Charles Lawson, seaman, was fined 20s, with 7s 6d for damage, or in…
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