Queensland. Brisbane, Thursday Night. Contempt of Court
Mr. Doherty, the late manager, of the Ross Island branch of the Bank of North Queensland, was sentenced to 48 hours' imprisonment Townsville yesterday for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1889
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The New Zealand Exhibition. The New South Wales Court
MR. OSCAR MEYER, Commissioner for New South Wales at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 1889-90, has forwarded his first report to the Premier. He reports that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bankruptcy Court. Thursday, October 3. (Before Mr. J. Mair, Commissioner in Bankruptcy.) Public Examination
RE Thomas Humphreys, of Cooranbong estate. Mr. T. F. Low appeared for the bankrupt. The bankrupt said the cause of his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Licensing Court. Thursday, October 3. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., Ludlow, Shaw, and Martin, Js.P.) Transfer of a License
THE adjourned hearing of the application of Joseph Blacker to transfer the license of the Clarendon Hotel, Hunter-street, to Edwin Sara. Mr. Sparke represented the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Circuit Court. Fourth Day. (Before His Honor the Chief Justice and a jury of four.) Black and Quigley v. the Railway Commissioners. Part Heard
MR. J. H. WANT, Q.C., and Mr. W. Edmunds, instructed by Want, Johnson, and Company, and Mr. J. A. Gorrick, appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. C. E…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Victoria. Melbourne, Friday Night. Attempted Wife Murder
Thomas Collins, a green grocer, separated from his wife and family, attempted to murder his wife at the place where she is living in Carlton. They have seven children. She…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambton Police Court. Friday, October 4Th. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Drunk and Disorderly
ELIZABETH THOMAS pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly in Morehead-street, on the 1st inst., and was fined 5s and costs for the offence…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, October 4, 1889. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.P.) Drunkenness
THOMAS Rouse, 18, labourer, was fined 5s and costs, or twenty-four hours, for being drunk. An Alleged Lunatic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Circuit Court. Fifth Day. Friday, 4Th October, 1889. (Before His Honor the Chief Justice and a jury of four.) Black and Quigley V. the Railway Commissioners Part Heard
MR. J. H. WANT, Q.C., and Mr. W. Edmunds, instructed by Want, Johnson, and Company, and Mr. J. A. Gorrick, appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. C. E…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, October 5, 1889. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. Lindus, J.P.) Drunks
GEORGE SIMPSON and Robert Reay, for being drunk, were fined respectively 5s or 24 hours. Language…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wallsend Police Court. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Drunk
GEORGE LLOYD was charged with being drunk in Wentworth-street on Sunday evening, judging from his appearanes in the box George must have been having a merry…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victoria. Melbourne, Monday Night. a Murder Case
About forty witnesses will be examined on behalf of the Crown in the case of John Stephens, charged with the murder of Ah Gay Ong…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Melbourne Letter. MELBOURNE, Oct. 3. Murder in the Air
WE, here in Melbourne, have certainly nothing to complain of in the way of sensation. At the head of all crime stands murder; and, certainly, we have had our…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, October 7, 1889. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Ludlow and Thorn, J.'s.P.) Drunks
ELLEN MATHESON, aged 40, and Elizabeth Hayes, aged 19, were lined 5s, or twenty four hours, for being drunk on Saturday evening. George Christie was also fined the same sum…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, October 8Th. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Alleged Assault
ANNIE BROUGH summoned her husband for assault at New Lambton on the 20th Sept. Mr. J. A. Gorrick defended. Annie Brough deposed that she was living…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Queensland. Brisbane, Tuesday Night. Theft of a Racehorse
A groom named Gelder was charged at the police court to-day with the theft of the racehorse Kmigrant. Gelder got permission on the 5th inst. to take the horse to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday Night. a Murder Case
John Stephens, charged with the murder of Ah Gay Ong, was brought before the Court again to-day, and remanded for another week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, October 8, 1889. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P.) Drunkenness
FRANK HARMAN, 40, labourer; Richard Speer, 49, labourer; Charles Trevalyn, 42, mason, and Con Conway, 28, labourer, were each fined 5s, or 24 hours. The last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Zealand. Child Murder
An Englishwoman, the wife of an Italian named Corrado, a clerk in the Colonial Insurance Office at Wellington, has murdered her infant girl, four months old, by placing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, October 9Th. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Cattle Straying
MR. J. BEDFORD, inspector of nuisances, summoned in the following cases:—George Byerly, who pleaded guilty to allowing his horse to stray in Tighe-street on…
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