Queensland. Sentenced to Death
The schooner Lucy Adelaide arrived at Cooktown on Thursday from Samaria. The trial of the eleven natives implicated in the murder of Captain Ancell was held at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1889
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 60
Western Australia. Alleged Murder
Special sittings of the Supreme Court are being held to try charges of the murder of natives against three whites and three blacks. The case against them is that, with others,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lambton Police Court. Friday, February 18Th. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
MARY CANNON was charged with using profane language on the Newcastle road, near New Lambton, on the 28th ult. Constable Kinnane gave defendant a very bad…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland. Brisbane, Friday. Natives Tried for Murder
The ship Lucy, which arrived at Cooktown from New Guinea yesterday, reports the trial at Samarai on 18th December of eleven natives implicated in the murder of Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, February 1, 1889. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Thorn, J.P.)
Two inebriates were fined the usual 5s each with the alternative of twenty-four hours. ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON. Henry Coslett and William (alias Skinny)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, February 2, 1889. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.m.) Drunks
Two of the above offenders were dealt with in the usual way. BREAKING AN IMAGE. Samuel English saw a hawker carrying an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death of the Archduke Rudolph. Murder or Suicide
LONDON, Thursday.—Telegrams from Vienna now state that the door of Archduke Rudolph's bedroom had to be forced on the morning his death was discovered. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, February 4, 1889. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., D. Ludlow, and J. Thorn, Js.P.) DRUNKENNESS
NOTWITHSTANDING the tremendous amount of the excitement in the city on Saturday, only two persons were charged with drunkenness. Fines were imposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, February 5Th. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Small Debts
BUCHANAN V. Smith; for the sum of £1, for goods sold and delivered, Nonsuited for lack of evidence. Buchanan v. Davis: for the sum of £1,15s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Bradford Murder
LONDON, Tuesday.—The inquest on the boy Gill, who was murdered and horribly mutilated in Bradford on December 29th, resulted yesterday in a verdict of wilful…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Intercolonial News. New South Wales. Alleged Wilful Murder
THE inquiry relative to the death of the seaman, Andrew Mallander, who received a stab wound in the heart, in Gloucester-street, Sydney, on Saturday night, during a quarrel…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, February 6, 1889. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. H. Shaw, J.p.) Inebriety
Two persons were fined for drunkenness. ALLEGED INSANITY. James Goldsworthy, a miner, was before the court as a person deemed to be insane…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Victoria. Alleged Murder
John Caffrey, the alleged murderer of a Chairman named Ah Gayung, was brought up at Melbourne on Wednesday, and remanded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, February 7, 1889. (Before the P.m.) Drunkenness
THE only business for disposal was the fining of three persons for drunkenness. The usual penalties were imposed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local Mining Dispute. Before the Referee's Court. Meeting To-day
THE REFEREE'S COURT, established under the General Agreement, lately come to between the Associated Colliery Proprietors, and the Miners' Association, will assemble this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, February 8, 1889. (Before the P.m.) Inebriety
ONE man, who was in an advanced state of intoxication, was fined £1, or seven days PROTECTION. Duncan M'Keihnie, an old man who had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle District Court
SUITORS are reminded that Tuesday, the 19th inst., will be the last day for entering plaints in our local District Court for trial at the next court, to be held on the 4th March next…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend Mining Dispute. The Referee's Court. Yesterday's Proceedings
YESTERDAY morning at the Newcastle Court-house the first case submitted to the Referee's Court, under the new miners general agreement, came on for hearing before Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Victoria. Attempted Double Murder
A deliberate attempt at double murder was made on Friday at Campbell's Creek, Castlemaine, by a young man named James Fawkes. Fawkes entered the residence of John Rogers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, February 9, 1889. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.m.) Drunkenness
Two offenders wore dealt with in the usual way for having imbibed to excess. DISCHARGED. David Thomas, who had been locked up…
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