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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 41 of 60
HUGH DONNELLY, aged 29, a seaman, was fined the usual 5s or 24 hours for being drunk in Hunter street on the previous evening…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON Sunday night a hawker named Henry J. Jason was brutally assaulted by a number of navvies at the main camp on the Burwood line, near Flaggy Creek. From information…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ROBERT SMITH, from Terelba, was charged with being drunk in Kemp-street on the 9th inst A further charge of using indecent language was also preferred…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GEORGE ERRINGTON, 23, miner, and James Williams, 25, labourer, for being drunk in Hunter-street and Tighe's Hill respectively, were fined 5s or 24 hours each. James…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THOMAS HEAR and a Celestial named Ah Key were each fined 5s, or 24 hours' in default. Absenting Seamen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday His Honor Judge M'Farland, said he noticed every case which was heard there came from Newcastle, and witnesses had to come from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN application for the transfer of the publican's license of the Victoria Hotel, Wallsend, from James Sneddon to Mrs. Hancock, was granted…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JOHN SAUNDERS, 25, labourer, and Thomas. Howard, 24, labourer, were each fined £2 or 14 days, for travelling from Sydney to Newcastle by the s.s. Sydney without having paid…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—In reference to our now Court-house, there seems to be a diversity of opinion as to the proper site for same. Two suggestions have now been made since the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The discovery of the mutilated body of a woman in Back Church-lake, Whitechapel, has created a great sensation in London. The Mutilation in this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIMON SHIELDS and John Shields were charged with creating a disturbance in a hotel, Minmi. Hurter Smith and Alex. Main, who were summoned in the same…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE inquest on the body of Peter J. Sherlock, which was found covered with branches on August 21st, in a paddock four miles from Ringwood, has resulted in the committal of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following fines were inflicted for cases of drunkenness :—Thomas Cooper, 37, labourer, 5s or twenty-four hours; Daniel White, 4s, labourer, and Richard Speer, 48, labourer,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Any ship-master coming to this port cannot fail to be struck with the curious arrangement of the authorities, by which the Queen's Wharf, where there is seldom…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOSEPH BLACKER applied to transfer the Clarendon Hotel to Edward Sara. Mr. Sparke appeared for Edward Sara. There were no police objections to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EDWARD HENDERSON pleaded guilty to being drunk in Regent-street New Lambton, on Sunday, 8th inst. The P.M. remarked that the was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →David Thomas and Geo. Johnson pleaded guilty to behaving in a riotous manner in Stockton-street; Stockton, on the 7th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ROBERT SMITH drunk in Hunter-street on the previous evening, was fined the usual 5s, or 48 hours. Kate Allen was similarly dealt with for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHARLES PAGE was charged by Mr. J. Bedford, Inspector of Nuisances, with allowing a young bull to stray, in Turton-road on the 4th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WILLIAM FOULTEN, 53, a labourer, for being drunk in Blane-street, was fined 5s, or 24 hours. Alleged Attempted Suicide…
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