"Chief Justice's Chambers, "Supreme Court, "Sydney, 20th Sept., 1888
"My dear Sir Henry,—In answer to your note with respect to bail having been allowed to the persons who were yesterday charged with riot, I…
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Courts & crime, 1888
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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, September 22Nd, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., T. W. Weir and W. Lindus, Js.P.) Stoning a Chinaman
JOSEPH LAWRENCE, a lad 16 years of age, was charged with assaulting one Ah Hoy, a Chinaman, by striking him with a stone in Hannell-street,…
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HIS Honor Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson sat in the local court-house for a few minutes yesterday. The case of George Herrington, of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, September 24Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and D. Ludlow, J.p.) Inebriety
Daniel Poole, a miner, was fined £2, or fourteen days' gaol, for using Saturday language at Adamstown on rested accused…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, September 25, 1888. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin and W. H. Shaw, Js.P.) INTOXICATION
Two inebriates were fined. ASSAULT IN VIEW OF A CONSTABLE. Charles Houcham, seaman, was charged with committing an assault in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Attempted Wife Murder
A DELIBERATE attempt to murder a woman was made on Wednesday at Lilydale (Vic.), by a man named George Syme. Syme is living apart…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Wednesday. an Irish Member Sentenced
Mr. J. E. Redmond, the member for North Wexford, who was arrested last month on a charge of inciting to intimidation, was sentenced to five…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, September 27, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P. M., T. Cox, and W. Lindus, Js.P.) DRUNKENNESS
Two persons were fined for this offence. PROFANE LANGUAGE. James Christianson, a seaman, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, September 27, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and G. C. Martin, J.p.) Inebriety
ONE drunkard was fined. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Frederick Walters, alias Danvers, described as a "vocalist," on remand…
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THAT the proposal to establish a "Chamber of Arbitration" for the disposal of minor disputes referring to matters of trade should not…
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Further horror has been caused throughout London by the discovery that two other murders of women have been committed, one in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, September 29, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. Lindus, J.p.) Drunkenness
John James, a seaman, was charged with having, in company with two others, maliciously injured certain running rigging on board the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, October 3Rd, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., G. C. Martin and J. Thorn, Js.P.) DRUNKENNESS
FOUR inebriates, two women and one man, were fined for this offence. Mary Munro was fined 20s, or seven days' imprisonment, for being drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Waratah Quarterly Licensing Court. Wednesday, October 3Rd. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M., and Mr. R. Turton, J.P.)
SEVERAL applications for renewals of publicans' licenses were granted on the usual report and representations of Sergeant Grennan, licensing inspector for the district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Protection Wanted in Newcastle
THE report of yesterday's proceedings at the Newcastle Licensing Court, where several cases were dismissed owing to the absence of some police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Wednesday. Another Horrible Murder in London
While workmen were engaged in destroying an unfinished building, intended as an Opera House, on the Thames embankment they found the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, October 4Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and G. C. Martin, J.p.) Drunkenness
Two persons were fined the usual amounts. DISOBEDIENCE OF ORDERS. Thomas Creighton, a seaman, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, October 4, 1888. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., Dr. C. W. Morgan, and G. C. Martin, Js.P.) License Transferred
THE license of the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, Corlette-street, Junction, was transferred from R. A. M'Auliffe to George Peacock, there…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Mysterious Railway Murder
The man M'Neill has been committed for trial for throwing a man named King, a passenger per the Ormuz from Sydney, from a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court.—friday. (Before Mr. T. Grierson, J.P., and Mr. R. Turton presiding.) Small Debts
William Scott sued John Davis for £6 as wages due for six weeks' work done. The plaintiff alleged that he was to have received £2 per week,…
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