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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 60
THE miner, Adam Frost, who was committed for trial at the next sittings of the Circuit Court at Maitland, on the capital charge of criminally assaulting a young girl…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Much excitement was created in London to-day by the discovery of the remains of the lower half of the body of a young woman in the Thames, at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratah Council v. Muirhead, £3 12s 3d for rates due. Verdict for plaintiff, with costs. Dewhurst v. Teasdale, £2 8s, for goods…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. J. BEDFORD, Council-clerk and valuator, appeared for the Council. There were only two appeals, that of Mr. C. Page, whose rate for slaughter-yard was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Mayor (Mr. Buchanan), in accordance with the answer of His Honor to the deputation which waited upon him on Tuesday with respect to the court-house, handed the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOHN KING was charged with wilfully delaying, admittance to Sergeant E. Grennan to his licensed premises, the Post-office Hotel, Plattsburg, on Sunday, 19th May ult…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A decent-looking man named William Jones was charged by Sarah Rose with assaulting her on the morning of the 28th of May, with intent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FOR the second time during the week not one single case of drunkenness was dealt with. HE LOST HIS TICKET…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday Night.—The inquiry into the cause of the death of Constable David Sutherland, who died in the Sydney Hospital on Monday morning from the effect of a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SUB-INSPECTOE LYNCH applied to have the license of Henry Hall, of the Universal Hotel, Hamilton, cancelled. It appears that the licensee was forced to go through the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hugh Plunkett,' an elderly man, was charged on the information of Constable M'Kellar with assaulting him while in the execution of his duty on the 1st June…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Thursday.—The adjourned inquest on the body of a Liverpool merchant, named Maybrick, whose wife, a niece of President Jefferson, has been arrested on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR HENRY PARKES has sent the following letter to the Inspector-General of Police with reference to the late Constable David Sutherland:—"Sir,—You will be good enough to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PETER MORRIS was fined 5s or twenty-four hours for being drunk in Hunter-street. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Thomas Rose was fined, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →PLANS have been prepared for a new courthouse for Newcastle, which, while being of a less costly nature than the building previously proposed, will, it is believed (says the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN aboriginal named Fred King was fined 5s, or twenty-four hours, for being intoxicated on the wharf. Frederick Hinton was similarly dealt with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ALFRED FULLERTON, a seaman, was charged with being drunk and using profane language in Hunter-street on Saturday night. For the first offence he was fined 5s, and for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. W. H. Coffey prosecuted on behalf of the Crown. Cecilia Ross was arraigned upon a charge of attempting to commit suicide at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Donohue, a miner, residing at Blackfellows' Gully, forty miles from Rockhampton, was charged yesterday with brutally assaulting Mrs. Edwards, who attacked him whilst…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN KITNOGE stood in the box before his Worship a sad and solitary drunk. John admitted that he had taken a drop too much, and was fined 5s for his little mistake…
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