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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
614 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 31
GEORGE C. HARDY was summoned for having kept his licensed premises, known as the White Horse Hotel, open for the sale of liquor on the 21st…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A VERY characteristic tragedy was enacted a short time ago in one of the suburbs of Mexico, resulting in the murder of an old woman who was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE body of a woman, murdered and mutilated, was found at an early hour in the morning in Spitalfields. The police are tying bloodhounds, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another woman has been murdered in the Whitechapel district. The horrible features of the crime are similar to those of the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A widow named Doyle, at Toongabbie, Victoria, cut her own and her two children's throats. All three are dead…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TO-DAY is the last day for filing plaints for the ensuing Newcastle District Court, which commences on the 26th instant. According to the Law Almanac, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FOUR persons were fined for drunkenness. RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR. William Condon, a labourer, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →William Cannon, of New Lambton, pleaded guilty to being drunk at Lambton on Sunday, the 11th inst. Fined 10s…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the inquest on the mutilated remains of the woman found in a room at Spitefield on Friday, evidence was tendered to the effect that she…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is announced that the post of chief of the Metropolitan Police has been offered to Mr. Howard Vincent, M.P. for Sheffield, formerly chief…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two persons were fined for this offence. BAD LANGUAGE. Walter Meredith, a labourer, was fined £2, or one month's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE jury being unable to agree in their verdict in the case of William Alfred Greave, charged with forgery, they were discharged, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MURDEROUS ASSAULT with firearms was (says the S. M. Herald) perpetrated in the Domain shortly before 11 o'clock on Wednesday night, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JOHN LEWIS was fined £2, or fourteen days' gaol, for using indecent language in Watt-street on Wednesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A TELEGRAM was recently received at Gateshead, Durham, England, by Superintendent Harrison, stating that William Waddle, who had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WILLIAM MURPHY, a seaman, was charged with deserting from the British registered ship Largo Law, at Newcastle, on the 14th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This was a case for recovery of rates due to Council. Mr. C. W. Readett, solicitor, appeared for the Council. Mr. William Lee,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE man, who had evidently been celebrating the settlement of the strike, was fined for drunkenness. ALLEGED LARCENY…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EIGHT persons were fined for drunkenness. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Thomas Parsons was fined 10s, or…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Minister for Lands held an Appeal Court, at which twenty-eight cases were heard. MARINE BOARD EXQUIRIES…
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