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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 60
THE inspector of nuisances summoned Amos Cropper for allowing "we horses to stray in Kendal-street on the 14th inst. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined 1s and costs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIX persons were fined for drunkenness. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Andrew Engeldon and George M'Cannon were charged with using obscene language…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONE inebriate was fined. A QUARREL. Charles Nelson, seaman, was charged with an assault occasioning bodily harm to Frederick…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THREE persons were fined for drunkenness. RESISTANCE. John Bald, seamen, was fined £5, or one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Of late the depredations of petty burglars have assumed considerable dimensions, and the immunity from arrest which they enjoy has emboldened them, and house robberies are of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THREE persons were fined for this offence. " D. AND D. " Nellie Brown, a prostitute, was fined 20s, or seven days' gaol, for being drunk and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the police court on Monday, before Messrs. Jos. Lyall and E. Lowe, Js.P., Robert Canham, a jockey about 16 years of age, in the employ of Mr. J. Flannery,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ONE person was fined for this offence. SUPPOSED THEFT. Theresa Thomas, a prostitute, was again remanded until Tuesday next on a charge or…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MATTHEW HAMILTON was charged with being drunk in Nelson-street. It appears that Matthew was formerly an old resident in this district, but for the past five years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two offenders were fined for the above offence. NEGLECTING THEIR DUTIES. Peter Ward and Richard Battenberg were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TRIO of offenders were fined for having imbibed freely. A WEAK CASE. William Gallaghan was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Thursday.—During the trial at Carrick-on-Suir of Mr. O'Brien, M.P., for offences under the Coercion Act, the prisoner made his escape in open court, the crowd in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—A horrible outrage is reported from Gateshead, a town in Durham. A policeman, while on duty on his beat last night, was attacked and murdered in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While engaged in stonebreaking in Lyttelton gaol two prisoners, named Cody and M'Manus, quarrelled. The latter struck Cody several times on the head with a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILLIAM LEWIS, seaman, was fined £2, OR fourteen days' gaol, for assaulting a man in view of Constable Higgins on Monday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thomas Kiely, who had been summoned to appear at Wallsend Court but did not answer, was broughtup on a warrant charged with having sold tobacco without a license at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY afternoon, at the Newcastle Licensing Court, John Grisdale, pawnbroker; of Hunter-street, Newcastle, made special application for an auctioneer's license, before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three offenders were fined for the above offence. "ON THE NOD." Thomas Noon, for travelling from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Thursday.—A burglary has been committed at the residence of the American Secretary of Legation at Ascot, and £7000 worth of jewellery stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As will be seen by the Government Gazette of December 28th, 1888, tenders are called for the supply of forage for our local police station. On previous occasions the…
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