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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
614 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 31
Two inebriates were fined. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Andrew Campbell, seaman, was charged with being drunk and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charles Carter, was charged with assaulting one Jane Thomas, with intent to commit a rape. Mr. Gorrick, solicitor, appeared for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Sambo," a Mahommedan cook, was fined £2, or fourteen days' gaol, for using indecent language in Hunter-street on Tuesday night. Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Sammy," an Indian, was fined 10s, or 48 hours, for being drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street on Tuesday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TH license of the City Arms, Hunter-street, was transferred from William Russell to Walter Kerr, of Lambton, there being no police objection…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE March sittings of our local District Court will commence next Monday before Judge Dowling. Since the last sittings 136 cases have been entered, but 100 of these…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ONE offender, who had imbibed excessively, was fined in the customary amount. DISCHARGED…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THREE inebriates were fined small amounts. ALLEGED ARSON. David Jenkin Jones, miner was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT 3 o'clock' on Saturday afternoon William Carroll, waiter, and his wife, residing at 57 Riley-street, commenced to quarrel. There was no other persons in the house,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM CUMMINGS, Charles Ogilvie, John Storer, John Chiltern, and John Charlton, boys, were charged with bathing within view of a public…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two offenders were fined in the usual sums for the above offence. THE RESULT OF DRINK. John Courtney was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HIS HONOR opened the court at 10 o'clock, when the Bar was represented by Messrs. R. Colonna Close and W. Edmunds, and the short-robed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two offenders were fined for the above offence. ATTEMPTED OPIUM SMUGGLING. Mr. W. H. Whyte, tide-surveyor,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Court resumed at 10 o'clock. His Honor said he wished to correct an error that had crept into a local paper that morning with-regard…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →William Metcalfe was brought up in custody on a charge of assaulting with intent to do grievous bodily harm to William Fenwick, at North…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOHN BAKER, charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm upon Robert Ray, on the 25th ult., was again remanded until Monday, in consequence…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Court resumed at 10 o'clock. WHITHAM AND ANOTHER V. BEVERIDGE. This was a claim for £4 upon a seaman's was a claim for £4 upon a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GEORGE WILSON, a labourer, was charged with using obscene language in Hunter-street, on Wednesday afternoon. Constable Brady arrested…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THIS was a case in which the defendant was charged with a breach of the Coal-mines Regulation Act of 1876 (39 Victoriæ No 31). Mr. W. H. Edmunds, instructed by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In consequence of the state of the roads the pole of the mail coach was broken on Thursday night about 11 o'clock, three miles from Inverell; one of…
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