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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 60
WILLIAM SMITH, a stranger, was arrested by Constable Green and charged with using obscene language. It appears that the accused was a short time ago brought up for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Wednesday.—A horrible tragedy is reported from Godalming, a town in Surrey. An artist named Jennings enticed his sweetheart into his studio and there seduced her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ONE person paid the usual penalty for being drunk. DESERTION. A. Dyerquack, seaman, who pleaded guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Four applications for billiard licenses were granted. BENEWALS T. G. Griffiths, publican's license for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE application of Thomas Walsh for the renewal of his publican's license at Carrington was granted. The application of James Maddison for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THOMAS SHAW, an old man, and a resident of Plattsburg, pleaded guilty to two charges of having made use of obscene and indecent language in Dixon-street, Lambton, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THOMAS A. ROBINSON, 20, labourer, was charged with forging an order for £2, with intent to defraud Andrew Peter Cunningham, at Armidale, on or about December 31st last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three boys were charged with entering the dwelling of a bachelor named Riddle, at New Lambton, and taking money to the value of £1, and were remanded till Tuesday, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →William. Grifliths, licensee of a billiard table in connection with his promises, the Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle Hotel, Elder-street, Lambton, was charged with allowing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →August Ingstrum and Robert Young, seamen, were charged with deserting from the colonial registered barque Southern Belle, at Newcastle, on the 8th instant. They pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Saturday.—The milkman Barrett, who was arrested on suspicion of having murdered and mutilated the boy whose remains were discovered at Bradford, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four persons were fined for the above offence. BREACHES OF THE BY LAWS. The Wickham Inspector of Nuisances…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two seamen were fined 5s each for having absorbed too much "tanglefoot." DESERTON. Walter Olymeyer, Albert Sibley, Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An application for the transfer of the license of the Railway Hotel, Minmi, from Alexander Johnson to John Durey was granted. An application for the transfer of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN ill-looking Celestial named Ong Ling appeared before Mr. M'Niven at the Water Police Court last Monday on a charge of having inflicted grievous bodily harm on an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THREE boys, William Quinn, Henry Penttie, and J. Birchell, were charged on arrest with having stolen from the dwelling of Hugh Riddle a one pound note and four shillings…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John M'Lean, an able seaman, for having deserted from the barque Sabrina, at Brisbane, on the 2nd instant, was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment in Maitland gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE only business of the court to-day was the Inspector of Nuisances, Borough of Plattsburg, against several parties for selling fruit, &c., in the public streets, and thereby…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWS has been received here by the English mail, which arrived yesterday, of an extraordinary outrage committed at Bermondsey and of the capture of the would be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →John, Davis, licensce of the Paragon Hotel, was summoned for keeping his licensed premises open for the sale of liquor on Sub-inspector Lynch said he was sorry he could…
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