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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 46 of 60
ABOUT half-an-hour after midnight last night, as two pressmen (Messrs Utting and Williams, both of whom are well-known in Newcastle) were walking home to their residence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →William Nick, for drunkenness, fined 5s or 24 hours. Drunk and Disorder[?]y. William Pickering, 21, lawyer, for being…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DURING the discussion in the Assembly early this morning of the loan estimate, the estimate of £15,000 for the erection of the new court-house at Newcastle was agreed to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Police Court on Wednesday, before Messrs. W. H. Holmes, John Lawrie, William Croker, and Vincent Carlton, J.'sP., the following small debts cases were settled:…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the criminal sessions Arthur Shaw and Gordon Shaw, settlers at Murchison, were jointly indicted for the murder of a native in Murchison in June last. The evidence taken…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GREAT excitement was manifested this morning when it became known that a sensational plot for the escape of a number of prisoners from the Melbourne gaol had been discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JAMES GOODLAND and George Warburton, charged with drunkenness, wore discharged with a caution only, on account of the day being of a festive nature…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JOHN KING, a miner, was charged with being drunk and using indecent language at Plattsburg on Tuesday, and was remanded. Plattsburg on Tuesday and was remanded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Henry Hawkins and Joseph Hawkey appeared on summons charged with removing timber from Crown lands without a license. Fined 10s each, and 4s 10d costs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JAMES TURNER and James Duggan, seamen, were fined 5s, or twenty-four hours' imprisonment, for being drunk on the previous evening…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →William Doyle was fined, on the information, of the Inspector of Nuisances, Hamilton, the sum of 5s, and 2s 6d costs, for suffering a horse to stray in Belford-street, Hamilton…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →RENEWALS of licenses were granted in the following cases, the police having no objection:—George Lennon, Grand Primo Hotel, Merewether; William Johnson, Exchange…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE body of a little girl named Caroline Winter was found at Seaham Harbour, England, lying in a pool of water at the foot of a done which opened out to the sea, with her…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JOSEPH ROCK, a seaman, who was before the Court in a case of protection, was, on the application of the police, discharged from custody…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. J. BEDFORD, inspector of nuisances, again contributed to the business of the court by prosecuting in the following cases:—Peter Herival pleaded guilty to allowing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the Clerkenwell Police Court, recently (says the Pall Mall Gazette), Robert Purves Stewart, a private in the let Battalion Scots Guards, stationed at Wellington Barracks,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY three men, who gave their names as Whitehall, Whitemouth, and Ward, were arrested on a charge of defrauding Francis Connors of the sum of £8. It…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday.—Nine arrests have been made in connection with the Cronin murder at Chicago…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BARBARA SMITH, from Miami on warrant, was charged with not sending her child to school the required number of days. Mrs. Smith explained that the reason for not complying…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Brain was on the information of Alex. Lindsay, fined £1 and 5s 6d costs, or, in default, fourteen days imprisonment, for entering the enclosed grounds of Margaret…
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