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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 36 of 60
ANNIE MALONEY was found on the previous evening in Blane-street in an incapable condition, and the gallant constable kindly escorted her to the lockup. She was fined 5s…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN re James Manghan.—The bankrupt was examined. He attributed the bankruptcy to the forced sale of his goods under a District Court verdict. His statement of affairs was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AN old offender, hailing from Sydney, named Mr. Smith, was brought before the P.M. and charged with assaulting Mrs. Jeffries, of Wallsend, on Thursday evening, and making…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GEORE PURCELL was charged with being drunk in Wolfe-street on August 8th, and was fined 5s or 24 hours. Drunk and Disorderly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →D. REES was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Devon-street on Saturday. As it appeared he had been confined in the lockup all Saturday night, for being drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Saturday afternoon a man named Alfred Critcher, residing at Bellambi, near Wollongong, attempted to murder his wife by stabbing her in the abdomen with a large clasp…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A NUMBER of drunks in a more or less advanced state of intoxication were arrayed before the court for treatment. John Biscol, Henry Morris, John Connor, and Richard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the City Court on Monday morning, Elizabeth Young was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment at Geelong for vagrancy. Her age was stated to be 101 last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HENRY HURLEY, Perry Rogers, David Beveridge, James Shaw, and John Brown, were fined 5s each, Annie Maloney and George Paddock 10s each, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN Extradition Court was held to-day, when an alleged escapee from New Caledonia was brought up. The accused was remanded for identification. It appears that there are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN extraordinary series of murders is reported from the province of Naples. A soldier named Borelli, of the 7th Bersagheri, while on the march near Benevento, lingered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The owners of the cottage in Chicago were Dr. Cronin was murdered have identified William Burke, who was recently extradited from Winnipeg on a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two persons were fined for drunkenness. Indecent Language. Adolphus Corrigan, a seaman, was fined £2 or fourteen days' imprisonment, for using…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Tuesday.—An attempt was made yesterday to murder the agent of Lord Clanricarde, on whose estate many troubles have lately arisen in connection with eviction…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PARIS, Wednesday.—The Court of the Senate has pronounced General Boulanger guilty of embezzling, and has sentenced Boulanger, Count Dillon, and Henri…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JAMES TRACEY was charged with being drunk on Kenrick-street, Plattsburg, on Sunday, the 11th inst. Fined £1 and 5s 6d costs, or seven days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Hon E. Barton, M.L.C., Q.C., will sit in the Referee's Court this morning to hear the long pending dispute between the A.A. Company and its men. It is understood that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE money required for the erection of a now court-house on the plans approved of by the Minister for Justice, will be asked for by the Government on their loan estimates. It…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM GARDINER, a miner, aged 28, was remanded for eight days for medical treatment on a charge of being of unsound mind and unfit to be at large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS morning, at the Water Police Court, Sidney E. Raper was charged with having on March 14, 1889, being then in the employ of the Registrar-General, embezzled the sum…
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