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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 51 of 60
JOHN PHILLIPS was summoned for allowing two cows to stray in Hanbury-street, on the 2nd instant. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined 1s and costs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HENRY COWL, 32, labourer, and Edward Griffith, 27, seaman, for being drunk in Watt and Hunter streets respectively, were each fined 5s, or twenty-four hours…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE execution of Thomas Reilly who was condemned to death for the murder of Christian Epple on September 15, took place to-day in Wagga Gaol yard. Only the gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man named John Ice was arrested at Broken Hill on Tuesday on a charge of the willful murder of Charles Leonard Godfrey, aged 5½ years, an adopted boy, whom Ice had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →RICHARD WOOD pleaded guilty to selling liquor in his licensed premises, the Bonnie Doon Hotel, Miami, on Sunday, the 3rd inst. Sergeant Grennan stated that in company…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE public examination of Edmund H. Taylor was to have been held this morning in the Bankruptcy Court, but an application was made and granted that the examination…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thomas Bourke was brought before the court as a person deemed to be of unsound mind. Constable Duffell, stationed at West…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CHARLES LITTLE, 67, Shepherd, and Robert John Dillon, 30, seaman, for drunkenness were each fined 5s, or in default twenty-four hours…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN ICE and Eva Gregory were brought up at Broken Hill on Wednesday morning on a charge of murder, and of being an accessory to murder, respectively, of a boy acrobat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOSEPH HALLIDAY and John Regan were charged with using obscene language in a billiard-room in Elder-street on the 1st inst. Both defendanis pleaded guilty, and were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Margaret Paterson, the midwife connected with the South Brisbane infanticide case, was committee for trial to-day on a charge of the murder of the two infant children of John…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CLARA MALLON, aboriginal, and Richard Roche, 42 labourer, for drunkenness were each fined 5s, or in default 24 hours. Indecent Language…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Sunday.—At the Gronin murder trial evidence taken daily closely connects the prisoners with the murder of Cronin…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two women named Mary Pagrum, 38, and Elizabeth Burus, 64, were fined 5s, or twenty-four hours, for being drunk in Hunter-street on the previous evening…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THINGS wore rather lively at the Girls' Industrial School at Parramatta on Friday night, when some of the girls, taking advantage of the temporary absence of the matron,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.— At the trial of the men charged with the murder of Dr. Cronin, of Chicago, evidence was given that the clothes of Cronin had been cut into small strips, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANOTHER phase of the King-street shooting affray, which has now resolved itself into a case of murder, has been brought about by the death of Mr. J. H. Bartlett, who expired…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.— A prisoner named Lawrie, who was apprehended as he was about to commit suicide, has been convicted of the murder of a tourist upon Goatfell, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—The case of surgical instruments which belonged to Dr. Cronin, who was murdered, has been found near where the body was discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JENKIN REES was charged with being drunk, using obscene language, and resisting the police in the execution of their duty, on Sunday, the 10th instant…
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