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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 49 of 60
JOSEPH DUMBLETON was charged with using obscene language on the 22nd instant, on the Waratah Comnmonage, Lambton. Enoch Heath, miner, deposed that on 22nd…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALEXANDER CRESAR, 29, labourer, for drunkenness, fined 5s or 24 hours. Deserting his Ship. Edward Anderson, 43, seaman, was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Samuel G. Roy was charged with neglecting to comply with an order of the court for the support of his wife. Mr. Readett appeared for the defendant,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →K. HUMBLY sues the mate of the American ship W. H. Conner for a 1000dols. damages in the Supreme Court of Hongkong for kidnapping. This is a test case, and if…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Saturday night, shortly after 11 o'clock, Mr. Samuel Lilley was in his shop, when he noticed a man passing in the street take a bottle of oysters from the window where it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—The trial of the prisoners arraigned for the murder of Dr. Cronin, of Chicago, was commenced in that city yesterday. In his opening speech the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THOMAS COOPER, Henry Hogg, and Car Conway, labourers, were fined 5s, or twenty-four hours' imprisonment, for being drunk on the previous evening in various parts of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SHOCKING wife murder and suicide of the husband occurred on September 19, near Fence House, in the County of Durham, England. The man, William Walker, was a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Robert Gleeson, a jockey, was arrested at Tambo on Saturday on a charge of horse stealing. A HOLIDAY…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE only case was William Jones, from West Wallsend, charged with being drunk on Sunday, the 20th inst. Constable Duffell stated that the accused…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ELLEN MORGAN, 31, married, for being drunk on the wharves, was fined 5s, or twenty-four hours. Elizabeth Ashton, 37, married, for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the Central Criminal Court this morning, William Hunter was arraigned on three charges, one of which was the murder of his daughter, Annie Agnes Hunter, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Samuel Roy was charged with neglecting to comply with the order of the Court to contribute 30s per week towards the support of his wife…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JOHN M'LEAN, John May, and John Williams were each fined 5s, or twenty-four hours, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THOMAS BUNN pleaded guilty to drunkenness in Elder-street on Saturday night, 26th inst., and was discharged with a caution. WAGES CASE…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two lads named Brown, who wore recently before the police court charged with stealing some pigeone, the property of Canon Selwyn, were ye[?]terday seen by the police to help…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For some time past a large amount of damage has been done to the flower borders in the park by mischievous boys climbing the fences and stealing the flowers, and in some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The trial of the prisoners arrested on a charge of murdering Inspector Martin was concluded at Mary-borough, Ireland, to-day. Twelve prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Six of the prisoners charged in connection with the murder of Police-inepecter Martin at Gweedore, on Sunday, February 2, have pleaded guilty of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PETER LYNCH, seaman on board the steamer Marand, was at Liverpool committed to the assizes for murdering the chief office of that steamer, Alexander Hertz, when at San…
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