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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 60
THREE persons were fined for this offence. "D. AND D." Daniel Britten was fined £1, or 7 days' gaol, for being drunk and disorderly in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →George Smithers pleaded guilty to charge of drunkenness in Station-street, Waratah, on the 7th instant. Fined 5s and costs. The court then rose…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →William Spruce and Henry Cozlett were charged With, that they did, at Newcastle, on January 31st, steal a watch from the person of James Snedden…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOHN T. GUINNESS, licensee of the Colliery Inn, Wallsend, pleaded guilty to a charge of Sunday selling on February 24. Fined £2 and 5s 6d costs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →John Hopton, for maliciously, wounding Benjamin Yates, was sentenced to two years' hard labour. On the record of the sentence, His Honor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two offenders, whose faces presented a mass of bruises, were ordered to forfeit 5s. each towards the revenue. ALLEGED DISOBEDIENCE…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ROBERT KENDALL was charged with embezzling various sums of money to the extent of £800 or more, the property of Richard Windeyer Thompson. There was another…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Donnelly, on summons, was charged with assaulting Mary Donnelly, by striking her on her eye and head with his fists, and biting her hand. Defendant pleaded guilty,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the Wallsend Police Court yesterday, before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M., the three following charges of assault wore heard : Walter Beveridge v. Edward Lowe, Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE license of the City Arms Hotel, Hunter-street, was transferred from Walter Kerr to Albert Beaumont. There was no police objection…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two burglars named Joseph Beckwith and George Green were arrested to-day for burglary in North Adelaide, committed same morning. The plunder was found upon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANDREW POLLOCK, a stranger, was brought up and charged with being drunk, and fined 2s 6d. The same party had been before the P.M. on the previous day for the same…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THREE individuals were fined for the above offence. DIDN'T PAY HIS FARE. William Williams, a seamen, was ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN GIBSON was charged with allowing his horse to stray in Morehead-street on the 9th inst. Defendant pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →George Owen, a labourer, was fined £3, or one month's imprisonment, for using indecent language in Hunter-street the previous night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →INCREASED POLICE PROTECTION.—ALLEGED ATTEMTED ASSAULT. ON account of the growing importance of Wallsend and Plattsburg and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE only business of the court to-day consisted of two cases of drunkenness and one case of obscene language. William Shoosmith, changed with being…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Four persons were fined for drunkenness. A RIOTER. Thomas Swinton, 20, a carter, was charged with behaving in a riotous manner in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charles Oaks, a steward, described as hailing from America, was charged with stealing from the ship Earl Granville, whilst lying in the port of Newcastle, the sum of £200,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Warrnambool Assizes Court, held on Saturday, three shearers, Joseph Pitman, James Brown, and Edward Whyte, were found guilty of common assault on Mr…
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