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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 60
JOSEPH LEAHEY was fined 5s or twenty-four hours for being drunk in Pacific-street. FIGHTING IN THE PARK. Two youths, named Samuel Richards and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR. BAKER, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the Council. The appeal sheet showed 133 appellants, but nearly all of these had been previously settled by the Council, and were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PATRICK SWEENEY was fined 5s for drunkenness, and £3, or one month, for using indecent language in Hunter-street on Thursday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DISGRACEFUL scene occurred at the City Court to-day. One solicitor called another a scoundrel, a notorious, and an infamous liar, and said that he never earned a penny…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →William Munro was fined 5s. or 24 hours for being drunk in Hunter-street LANGUAGE. A young man named John Graham was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Saturday morning the township of Lambton was thrown into a fever of excitement by a report that a desperate affray had taken place late on Friday night, between two…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An attempted burglary took place at the Victoria Hall, Bourke-street, Melbourne, some time after midnight on Saturday. Before leaving, the manager looked up the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A verdict of wilful murder was returned against William Murray, who gave himself up on the 14th instant for shooting Daniel Rogers at Cloncurry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The only case dealt with was one of obscene language, in Nelson-street, on Saturday night, when a fine of 5s. was imposed; and old Abraham Magnus for being drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Council will meet to-night in the Council Chambers to hold a Friendly Appeal Court. A few appeals have been sent in. THE COMMONAGE…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Robert Reed and Geo. M'Kay were fined 10s or 48 hours for being drunk in Watt-street and Hunter-street respectively. James Devin, Elizabeth Gray, Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MESSRS. J. Mair, P.M., W. H. Shaw, J.P. and G. C. Martin, J.P., sat as an Appeal Court yesterday against the assessment, of the Borough of Carrington…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Butler was charged, on remand, with unlawfully and maliciously wounding Moses Harris at Lamnbton on the 17th inst. Mr. J. A. Gorrick appeared on behalf of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Charles Winlow was charged by George Pierce with detaining two pigeons which he had purchased from the defendam some time ago for 10s each…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EDWARD WOOD, aged 60, was mulcted in the sum of 5s, or 24 hours' imprisonment, for being drunk in Watt-street. Robert Dixon, for being drunk in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS was an application, in Banco, for a writ of prohibition to be directed to James Mair, Police Magistrate of Newcastle, William Hobart Shaw and George Cannon Martin,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JOHN Bowes pleaded guilty to using obscene language in Station-street on the 21st inst. It being a very bad case of filthy verbiage, defendant was mulctad in the sum of £1, or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MINER named Adam Frost was arrested yesterday in his hut at Catherine Hill Bay, near Swansea, by Constable Jordon, upon a warrant charging him with criminally…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Mason was charged, on the information of Inspector Lloyd, with driving his 'bus round a corner at other than a walk. Fined 10s, and 2s 6d costs, or forty-eight hours'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Dean and James Dorsey, two seamen, were fined 5s or 24 hours, for being drunk in Market-street. LANGUAGE…
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