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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 60
DURING an interval in the cases in the Lambton Police Court, Sergeant Salter drew the P.M.'s attention to the disgraceful state of the court-house, several panes of glass being…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JOSEPH BROWN was fined 1s and costs for allowing his horse to stray in the public streets on the 21st inst. Mr. J. Bedford, inspector of nuisances, prosecuted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEW YORK, Monday.—Further investigations have led the authorities to arrest a man named Macgehan, a resident of Philadelphia, on suspicion of being an accomplice in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MICHAEL CARROLL, a seaman, was fined 5s or 24 hours for being drunk in Market Square. John Jones, a sailor, was similarly dealt…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →William Plummer was fined 10s and 2s 6d for driving his spring cart at a pace faster than a walk round the corner of Hunter-street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ENOCH DAVIS, of the Junction, stated that he attributed his position to dull times and slackness of work at the mine. He kept a store, and was also a coalminer. A true…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN HALL, who appealed against the annual value placed upon his property, consented to a reduction from £114 8s to £104…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Only case dealt with this morning was Ralph Taylor, charged with being drunk and disorderly in Bunn-street on the night of the 24th inst, no doubt, like a loyal subject, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JAMES BROWN and Frank Rendon were the only attendants at Mr. Mair's levee. Both were drunks, and they came up smiling before his Worship, as though somewhat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEW YORK, Wednesday.—Further arrests have been made in connection with the finding of the body of Dr. Cronin at Chicago. Two men named Coughlin and Woodruff…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deputation of solicitors waited upon the Chief Justice to-day to ask him to remit the penalty of it month's imprisonment on Mr. Daly, the solicitor, for contempt of court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Water Police, under Senior sergeant Dick, returned from West Maitland yesterday. During the time of the flood they rendered a great deal of assistance, being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE June sittings of the local District Court will commence on Monday next, the 3rd instant, before Judge M'Farland. Since the last sittings of the Court upwards of 100…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JAMES BERNIE and Charles White, seamen were fined 5s each, or 24 hours, for being incapable through drink in Hunter-street on Thursday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Newcastle Coal Company objected through their solicitor, Mr. H. J. Brown, to the annual value placed upon their mining plant, buildings, and railways above and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FREDERICK HINTON was charged with being, drunk and using obscene language in the streets on Friday night. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was lot off for being drunk, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EMILY M'CARTHY, alias Gurley, an old offender, was fined 5s. or 24 hours. James Thompson, a labourer, was similarly dealt with for being incapable in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Water Police Court this morning a young man of rather forbidding aspect, and whose face was covered with blood, was formally charged with shooting Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MARTIN O'LOUGHLAN was arrested on Sunday evening by Constable Kennan, of New Lambton, on a charge of indecently assaulting a little girl, aged eight years, daughter of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hughes v Cuthbertson, Daley v. Young, Hancock v. South Wallsend Coal-mining Co., Gibb v Thompson, Edwards v Sneddon and another, Kinsela v Brown and another,…
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