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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 38 of 60
ANNIE MALONEY, a married woman, 27 years of age, was charged with having no lawful visible means of support or fixed place of residence. The police stated that the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JAMES MORRISON was executed this morning. His death was the last accident in the story of Constable Sutherland's murder, which took place on the morning of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HENRY RIDDLE was brought up for protection, having been found wandering, both physically and mentally, near the tram-line at Jesmond, by Sergeant Salter, on Tuesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THOMAS PERKINS, a labourer, was fined the usual 5s or 24 hours' imprisonment for being drunk in Newcomen-street on the previous evening…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Inspector Lloyd prosecuted in the following cases:— Alfred Hinton, for allowing a horse to stray in Scott-street, was mulcted in the sum…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HIS EXCELLENCY the Governor presided today at an Extradition Court, at which there were present the Crown Solicitor, the Inspector General of Police, and the French…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In re Edward Ridley, of Hillsborough miner, bankrupt, attributed his position to the dull times and scarcity of work. He was a miner, and had been in the district during…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SQUIRE SMITH, licenses of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Lambton, was charged with selling liquor on the night of the 16th inst at seventeen minutes past 11 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Some time on Tuesday night a shocking murder was committed near Pakenham. A man named M'Namara split open the head of a man who has not yet been identified. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An interesting and significant occurrence is (says an English paper), reported from Niagara Falls. Some tourists, it is said, climbing among the rocks on the outside of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE only case before the court was Richard Jeffrey for being drunk in Kemp-street, Wallsend, on the 21st inst., and a second charge of making use of obscene language was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE police had only three drunks to proceed against. James Owen and Joseph M'Kay were fined 5s each and Peter Shannon 10s. A Wages Case…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ELIZABETH WITHAM, licenses of the London Tavern, was charged with wilfully delaying the admittance of the police to the premises known as the London Tavern on August…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOHN COYLE, JONES RAY, Elof Thelander and Margaret Wilson were charged with drunkenness, and fined 5s each. Margaret, an unfortunate aboriginal,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ROBERT JOHN TAYTOR, owner of the Rathluba Colliery, East Maitland, was summoned on the information of Mr. J. Mackenzie, Examiner of Coalfields, for that be (the said…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News from Fiji has boon received to the effect that the trial of Henry Ernest Weaver before the High Commissioner's Court, for the murder of Captain Greenless, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WILLIAM JONES and John Toohey were each fined 5s or the usual alternative. Riotous. George Way, 27, labourer, charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE award given by the Referee, Mr. E. Barton, Q.C. M.L.C., in the Wallsend reference, was received in Newcastle on Saturday, and we are now able, through the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two cases of obscene language were dealt with in the usual manner, one being fined in the sum of 10s and 5s 6d costs, and the other, on account of the provocation received by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ROBERT M'DONALD, William Jones, William Smith, George Roberts, and Edward Fisher were fined 5s each, for drunkenness. John Daly, for the same offence, was fined 10s…
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