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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 60
A MEETING of the Justices of the Peace was held in the Newcastle Police Court yesterday morning for the purpose of electing a licensing magistrate to fill the vacancy caused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Pyrmont tragedy was almost being repeated at Carlton to-day. Walter Brooks, an insurance agent, lived for some months with Matilda Thompson, a married woman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM TAYLOR, licensee of the Glebe Hotel, Globe, pleaded guilty to a charge of selling liquor on Sunday, April 28, and was fined £3 and 5s 6d costs, or, in default, one…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SUN LEE, a Chinaman, hailing from Jesmond, was charged with being drunk in Nelson-street, on the 9th inst. As John and been locked up all night, and this being his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JAMES LONSDALE and James Craddock were charged with letting off fireworks in the public streets at Jesmond, on the 4th inst. Craddock pleaded guilty, and Lonsdale not…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PHILIP PLAISTED, the musician, who murdered his wife at Box Hill, was brought before the magistrate to-day and formally remanded for killing his wife. None of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DAVID KERR, William Kerr, and Findlay Aird, were fined 5s and 2s 6d costs for allowing their horses to stray at Wickham. Edward Munan, who was summoned for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WHEN it became generally known that Sergeant Griffiths, who has been connected with the Newcastle police force for the past 23 years, was about to retire on a pension, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BERNARD CAIN was fined 5s or 24 hours for being drunk in Hunter-street…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHAT was very nearly being a repetition of the Pyrmont tragedy took place th[?]s morning, but, fortunately, in this instance it was the would-be murder who met his death, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WILLIAM ROBSON, a boy between 14 and 15 years of age, was charged with stealing oranges from Mr. John Parker's garden, Back Creek, Plattsburg…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A seaman named James Sims, charged with assaulting Albert Anderson, a seaman, aboard the ship Cupica, by stabbing him with a fork, was to-day sentenced to two months'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM MITCHELL, and James Fraser were fined 5s or 24 hours for being intoxicated on Saturday evening. Elizabeth burrows, alias Burns, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. JAS. MAIR, police magistrate, sat in court of revision for the electoral district of Newcastle, in the local Court-house, yesterday morning. The number struck off the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HENRIETTA CHAMBERS, a disreputable young woman, was fined 5s, or twenty-four hours, for being drunk in Darby-street; and for bad language, a further penalty of £2, or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →James Courts, a clerk, was charged to-day with criminally assaulting a married woman named Florence Johnstone, aged 30, on the night of the 9th instant. Mrs. Johnstone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GRIFFITHS LLOYD was charged, on remand, with wife desertion, but as there was no appearance of the complainant the case was dismissed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thomas Thoroughgood was charged, on the information of Frederick J. Gibbons, with unlawfully taking oysters from a leased area, near Mosquito Island, on the 22nd…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At an early hour this morning the house of a resident of Glenmore-road was entered, and a quantity of jewellery abstracted. A young lady of the family was awakened about…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Peter Blair was charged with indecent exposure in John-street on the 10th instant. Sergeant Grennan deposed to the offence, and that Dr. Lovibond stated that the…
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