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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
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Joseph Davenport, miner, was ordered to pay £2, or to spend three months in Maitland Gaol, for behaving indecently in Church-street on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NOTWITHSTANDING the holidays, the only case brought before the court this morning was John M'Closky, charged with indecent exposure in Devon-street, on the 21st…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SAYS the Evening News of yesterday :—A rumour was current in town on Saturday that Louisa Collins, the unfortunate woman now awaiting execution to-morrow week, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A boy has been found murdered at Bradford, in Yorkshire. The murderer mutilated the body of his victim in a horrible manner, and to such…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two persons were charged with drunkenness, but were discharged. BAD LINGUISTS. Two men, named John Wilkes and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A serious matinous outbreak is reported to have occurred at the gaol at Scheba, in Burmah; but the guard succeeded in overpowering and defeating the mutineers after, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Edward Harrington, M.P. for Kerry, who was recently sentenced by Mr. Justice Haunen, the president of the Times-Parnell Commission of Inquiry for contempt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A wild sensation has been created by the extraordinary conduct of some twenty-five soldiers belonging, to the Princess Chariette of Wales Royal Berkshire Regiment, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The prisoner Henry L. Bertrand, who has now entered on the 23rd year of imprisonment was, a few months ago, removed from Maitland gaol to Darlinghurst. This…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Monday, the last day of 1888, Sir John Cecil Read, the Governor of Darlinghurst Gaol, retired from the Civil Service under the provisions of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The Rev. Bobert Baynes, who has occupied the position of Canon at Worcester, has been sentenced to three months for frauds perpetrated by him…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANY person who has had any experience of the method of procedure adopted in the Newcastle Police Court cannot have failed to notice, with feelings which, while being…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FOUR "drunks" toed the mark, and were fined the usual sums. " D. AND D." Robert Young, labourer, was fined 10s, or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Sir William Withey Gull, Bart., the eminent physician and surgeon, who is 72 years of age is seriously ill…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jane Chester, 53, a widow, was charged with vagrancy. Evidence was given by the police in support of the charge. In reply to the P.M. the woman said " The Lord gave…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN assault case, arising out of the sale and repair of jewellery, was before the court yesterday morning. A time payment jewellery pedlur named Hunyer sold…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DURING the proceedings at the Sydney Central Police Court yesterday morning a contretemps occurred between Mr. Abbott, S.M., who was on the Bench on the charge side,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MAGGIE M'CLAY, in the employment of a dentist named Scott, of George-street West, was on Wednesday fined £5 in two cases of assault on a Mrs. Hedburg and her daughter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Thursday.—A man named Albert Pritchard, residing with his wife and family at Wollongabba, attempted suicide in his own house on New Year's Eye. He came…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SUB-INSPECTOR LYNCH summoned a number of publicans for selling liquor on Sundays, and on Christmas Day. Thomas Hunniford, licensee of the Hidden…
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