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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
614 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 31
THOMAS COLLINS, a seaman, was charged with absenting himself without leave from the British-registered barque Callao, at Newcastle, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two persons were ordered to pay small fines for this offence. ALLEGED DISOBEDIENCE. Thomas Hanger, a seaman, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN important case of bigamy was tried to day, when Hannah Frances M'Evoy (formerly Phillips) was tried on the above charge for having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →During the sitting of the Special Commission appointed to inquire into the charges brought by the Times against Mr. Parnell and other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THREE persons were fined for drunkenness. ALLEGED UTTERING. John M'Donald, 26, a miner, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JAMES FARRENT, a boy, was summoned by the police for throwing a stone in Bolton-street on the 14th inst. The boy pleaded guilty, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Frank Donnelly, of New Lambton, and John Anderson, of Lambton, were charged with using obscene language, and were fined 5s and costs each for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT is expected that Judge Dowling will open the November sittings of our local District Court on Monday, prior to his taking a two months' tour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Information is just to hand of the murder of a farmer in county Kerry. The crime is supposed to be agrarian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THREE persons were fined for drunkenness. ALLEGED UTTERING. John M.Donald, a miner, on remand…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is officially announced that Mr. James Monro, one of the three assistant Commissioners, has been appointed to succeed Sir Charles Warren…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →S. O. Greenland was charged with having allowed two horses to stray in Station-street on the 21st inst. Defendant pleaded not guilty, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. James Monroe, one of the three assistant Commissioners, will succeed Major-General Sir Charles Warren, G.C.M.G., as Chief Commissioner of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOUR offenders were dealt with in the usual way. RESISTING A CONSTABLE. Louis Runner, a native of France,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HIS Honor Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson opened the November sittings of the above court at 10 a.m., in the local court-house…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE court re-opened at 10 a.m. The first case taken was CHIPPENDALL W. SCHOLEY. This was a claim by Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A TRIO of offenders pleaded guilty, and were ordered to pay 5s each. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Ann Chapel, a widow, aged 40,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ROBERT CAIG was fined 40s, in default fourteen days in gaol, for making use of filthy language in Watt-street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE court re-opened at 10 a.m., when the case of RYAN V. BLACKISTON (part heard) was resumed. The action…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN JAMES pleaded guilty to indecent behaviour in Hunter-street the previous day, and was fined 40s, in default 14 days…
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