Police Court. (Before Mr. T. Grierson, J.p.)
Joseph Davis was charged on arrest, with maliciously damaging one wooden door, the property of Joseph Garrett, licensee of the Duke of…
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Courts & crime, 1888
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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, October 17. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin and W. H. Shaw, Js.P.) REMANDED
HENRY EVANS, who was brought up the previous day on a charge of stealing one black paget coat, the property of Mary Middlebrook, at Bindalla,…
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(Before His Honor Mr. Justice Poster.) THE sittings of the above court were commenced in the East Maitland Court-house yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. Mr. W…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, October 18. (Before Mr. G. C. Martin, J.p.) Alleged Stealing in Company
JOHN ADLARD and John Burns were charged with stealing in company with each other from the person of Frank Smith, the sum of £13 10s in money…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Circuit Court. Thursday, October 18Th, 1888. (Before His Honor Mr. Justice Foster.) the New Lambton Cases
THOMAS FRITH, Henry Evans, Thomas Sloan, Henry Wallace, Thomas Long, Joseph Moss, and Alfred Edden again surrendered to their bail on a charge of riot at the New…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, October 18. (Before Dr. C. W. Morgan (chairman), and G. C. Martin, Js.P.) Another Postponement
THE application of James Chilvers, of Stockton, came on again for hearing. Mr. Low appeared for applicant. Senior-sergeant Dick represented…
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A WIFE MURDER of a most outr[?]geous character has been perpetraed at Garston, near Liverpool. The other morning a dock labourer name[?] Neil…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, October 19. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin and J. Thorn, Js.P.) a Rowdy Customer
THOMAS WHITTINGHAM was charged with being drunk and disorderly and using profane language in Hunter-street. He was ordered to pay 40s;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →[By Wire From the Sydney Papers.] London, Thursday. Another London Murder
Further parts of a human body, portions of which were unearthed in a cellar of an old house in the vicinity of the Thames Embankment a few…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Circuit Court. Friday, October 19Th, 1888. (Before His Honor Mr. Justice Foster.)
THE NEW LAMBTON CASES—CHARGE OF RIOT. THOMAS FRITH, Thomas Sloan, Henry Evans, Alfred Edden, Henry Wallace, Thomas Long, and Joseph Moss, again…
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GEORGE SYME, blacksmith, charged with the murder of his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Clifford, at Lilydale, Victoria, by shooting her, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, October 20. (Before Mr. G. C. Martin, J.p.) Inebriety
FOUR persons had to submit to the usual penalties for drunkenness. BREAKING GLASS. David Thomas, miner, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Saturday Night. a Terrible Murder Suspected
THE headless body of a man in the Murrumbidgee River, near Jillengrove station, has been discovered. The police authorities are of opinion that a…
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AT the Maitland Circuit Court yesterday, George Aitchoson, on bail, was charged with having, on March 15 last, at East Maitland, before James…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, October 23. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin and W. H. Shaw, Js.P.) DRUNKENNESS
Thomas Elliott, labourer, was fined 10s, or forty-eight hours' gaol, for being drunk and disorderly in Newcomea-street on Monday. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lambton. Police Court. Tuesday, October 23, 1888. (Before Mr. T. Grierson, J.P., presiding, and Mr. M. Curran, J.P.)
NIEL M'PHAIL v. John Lloyd. This was a summons case for assault. The complainant alleged that on going to work on the 15th inst., as fireman to a…
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AT the above court, on Tuesday, before His Honor Judge Foster. LARCENY. Daniel Ferry, having been found…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, October 24. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin and W. H. Shaw, Js. P.) Drunkenness
Two offenders were fined for the above offence. DEEMED TO BE INSANE. John Thurley appeared before the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, October 26. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.p.) an Excessive Imbiber
ONE person was fined for drunkenness THE DISTURBANCE AT TIHE RACECOURSE. A very large number of summonses in connection with the disturbance on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, October 29Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin, and W. H. Shaw, J.'s.P.) DRUNKENNESS
Two offenders paid the usual penalty for the above offence. ASSAULT. Thomas Robertson was ordered to…
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