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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 43 of 60
THE City Coroner held an inquest this morning on the body of a female child which was found in Hudson-street yesterday. Dr. Sinclair stated that the body was that of a child…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday—.The work of [?]mpannelling a jury for the trial of the four persons charged with the murder of Dr. Cronin is still proceeding very slowly. The challenge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →P. M'GUIRE, for indecent behaviour, was fined £2, or 14 days. Roy Pilfering. A boy, 12 years of age, was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →EDWARD FISHER, miter, was charged with being drunk and disorderly, using obscene language, and resisting and assaulting Constable Thompson at Charlestown on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THOMAS SHAW was charged with being drunk on the Newcastle-road on the 21st inst.; and a further charge of obscene language was also preferred…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An examination of the human remains found on the Ki[?]larney run near Narrabri, shows that a charge of shot had been lodged in the upper jaw. The victim had evidently…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ANOTHER carefully-planned burglary came to light this morning, and the circumstances of the affair prove, that it was carried out in a most systematic and daring manner,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ROBERT M'DONALD, for being drunk on Saturday, fined 5s or 24 hours, and Charles Churs and Richard Barr, for over indulgence on Sunday, fined 10s each or 48 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DETECTIVE M'HATTIE, of the local police force, has been promoted from the rank of third-class detective to second-class. The promotion is equal to the rank of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN MORRIS made his periodical appearance, and was fined 5s, or 24 hours, for being drunk on the previous evening. Kllen Morgan, for being drunk on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ROBERT MASON pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly at Charlestown on the 17th instant; also to using obscene language on the same occasion…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN KING, 68, miner, for designating a fellow creature one of the vilest of beings was fined £1 or seven days. Daniel Pollock, 29, miner, for having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ROBERT MASON, the same individual who paid 35s in fines for drunkenness and bad language on Tuesday, appeared in reply to a second edition of sumn[?]onses for exactly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT is hoped, although the Minister of Justice has consented to do justice to Newcastle by giving instructions which point to a determination to establish Quarter Sessions here,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE trial of Robert Landells for murder of Peter Joseph Sherlock, was concluded to-day. The evidence was completed before lunch, when the Crown Prosecutor addressed the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A jury at Maryborough has been unable to agree in the case of Tommy Ah May, charged with criminally assaulting a young married woman at Gympie. The accused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN M'LEAN, 22, labourer, George Washington, 42, seaman, and Clara Davis, 18, one of the unfortunate class, each admitted the impeachment of having worshipped at he…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE application for the transfer of the license of the Clarendon Hotel from Joseph Blacker to Edward Sara, was again brought before the Court…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Friday.—The inquest regarding the death of the boy Heffernan, who was shot during a commotion after a sale of farms from which the tenants had been evicted,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the Wagga Assize Court this morning, before His Honor Justice Foster, Thomas Reilly was indicted for the murder of Christain Epple, at Wagga, on September…
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