Irish M.'sP. Sentenced
LONDON Tuesday.—Mr. William O'Brien, M.P. for North-East Cork, has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment, and Mr. James Gilhooley, M.P. for West Cork, to six…
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Courts & crime, 1889
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Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday Night. Brutal Assault on a Policeman
Constable Vizzard, who was brutally assaulted by larrikins on Saturday, is now pronounced out of danger. THE CRIME OF FORGERY…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, August 27. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., W. H. Shaw, J.P., and J. Thorn, J.P.) Drunks
DAVID THOMAS, Edward Howe, and Patrick Collins, three drunks, were each ordered to pay a fine of 5s. Disobeying Orders…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Waratah Police Court. Tuesday, August 27Th. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Vagrancy
JOSEPH RUNN, a deaf-mute, better known as "Dummy Bunn," a notorious character in the district, was charged with vagrancy. Constable Smith, of Tighe's Hill, deposed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, August 28. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. H. Shaw, J.P.) Ship Desertion
OLAF THORRSON was charged with deserting from the British registered ship Sokoto at Melbourne on July 24. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to four weeks'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, August 29Th, 1889. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
IT is seldom that the business of the Police Court is so satisfactorily settled as was the case on Thursday morning. The first case called was a maintenance case postponed from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Brisbane Gaol. an Astounding Scandal. Brisbane, Thursday Night
YESTERDAY information was conveyed to the Telegraph newspaper of serious irregularities being perpetrated in the Brisbane Gaol. Before the publication of the matter it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, August 29. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. H. Shaw, J.P.) Drunks
JAMES HENDERSON, a labourer, and John O'Brien, were fined 5s or twenty-four hours each for being drunk in Union and Newcomen streets respectively…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, August 29. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P.) Sunday Selling
WILIAM BEVERIDGE was charged by Sub-inspector Lynch with having kept his licensed premises at Burwood, known as the Racecourse Inn, open for the sale of liquor on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lambton Police Court. Friday, August 30Th, 1889. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Drunkenness
GEORGE DAWSON pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk in Young-street, on Sunday last, and was fined 10s and costs. INDECENT LANGUAGE…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Prisoner Escaped from Maitland Gaol. Fired upon by the Warder
YESTERDAY, about noon, a prisoner named William Roberts Bishop, aged 19 years, who was undergoing a term of imprisonment in Maitland Gaol, succeeded in effecting his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, August 30. (Before Messrs, J. Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.P.) Drunks
THOMAS M'GOUGH, miner, and George Hearns, labourer, were each fined 5s, or twenty-four hours, for being drunk in Hunter and Scott streets respectively…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Waratah Police Court. Saturday, August 31St. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrot, P.M.)
GEORGE FRAINCS was charged by Constable Quigley with discharging firearms in Hanbury-street, North Waratah. Defendant pleaded guilty and was fined 10s and costs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, August 31. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M.) Drunkenness and Obscene Language
EDWARD WALTER, for being drunk, was fined 5s and costs, and also for using obscene language on the Queen's Wharf was further mulct on a fine of £25 or 14 days hard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Otepopo Murder
LONDON, MONDAY.—The statement of Stewart, who recently gave himself up to the police on his own confession that he had murdered a man named Muir in the Otepopo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Police Court. Monday, September 2Nd. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Caning a Pupil
HENRY WILKINSON, JNR, schoolmaster at Teralba, was charged with beating Alice Kembrey, aged 14 years, at the school. Mr. Moore, solicitor, appeared on behalf…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, September 2Nd. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., and D. Ludlow, J.P.) Drunkenness and "Language."
JAEMIMA WILLIAMS pleaded guilty to being drunk in Lower Church-street, and with having made use of obscene language in Hunter-street, on the 31st August. Fined…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle District Court. First Day. Monday, September 2, 1889. (Before His Honor Judge M'Farland.)
THE quarterly sittings of the Newcastle District Court commenced yesterday. The following barristers were present Messrs. Moriarty, Shand, and Blacket…
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Robert Landill was charged this morning with the willful murder of Peter Sherlock at Ringwood, to which place he was remanded to attend the adjourned inquest on the 10th…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, September 3, 1889. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Small Debts
LUTHERN v links, for £5 2s 3d, in payment for goods sold and delivered.—Verdict for plaintiff. Hughes v Hynes, for £6 5s 2d, for goods…
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