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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 55 of 60
THIS being the annual meeting of justices, the following auctioneers' licenses were granted:—W. Conn, Lambton; and T. Alnwick, A. Markham, and J. W. Osbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FRANCIS JOHN STREET surrendered to his bail, and was brought up on remand from the 19th inst. charged with obtaining, by means of false pretences, from the Richmond…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AN application for the transfer of the license of the Scotch Thistle Hotel; Wallsend, from John Hall to William Murphy, was granted. PILLAGE OF GARDENS…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A SAILOR named James Crouch was ordered to pay 5s, or undergo twenty-four hours' imprisonment, as a result of a spree. Alleged Damaging Pictures…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Otago left Sydney for London on August 13 last, and, as has already been reported, put into the port of Lyttelton, New Zealand, in distress. The Court held to take evidence as to the cause of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HENRY ANDERSON alias M'Dermott, a sailor, was locked up last night charged with stealing a watch and chain from the person of a fellow sailor named John Leslie, with whom…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THOMAS PARKES, a young man, for using indecent language in Pit Town Road on Friday evening, the 22nd inst., was fined 5s and 5s 6d costs. Paid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of the man Henry Blackburn, who was murdered in Devonshire-street, Surry Hills, on the night of the 16th instant,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WILLIAM GORDON, a sailor, for being drunk on the wharves, was ordered to pay 5s, or 24 hours. Alleged Cheap Travelling…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IN the Divorce Court this morning William Huthwaite appeared to obtain a decree of dissolution of his marriage with Harriet Emma Huthwaite, on the ground of adultery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN DAVIES, licensee of the Paragon Hotel, appeared in answer to a summons to show cause why his license should not be cancelled…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ANOTHER daring robbery from a jeweller's shop was perpetrated at Newtown about 8 o'clock this morning. About the hour named, Mr. and Mrs. Selig, who were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EDWARD WHILEY, a young man, pleaded guilty to using bad language in front of a public building in Morehead-street, Lambton, on the 26th instant, and was fined 10s…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN RICE, a labourer, and John Leslie, a sailor, were ordered to pay 5s, or do 24 hours, for liquoring up too freely on the previous day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE inquest into the circumstances attending the recent death of Henry Blackburn, stabbed at Surry Hills, was resumed this morning. Frederick William Grogan deposed: I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the Central Criminal Court this morning, Hugh Charles Savage Hiddilston, who was recently found guilty of forgery in connection with the frauds in the Registrar General's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A GIRL, engaged as a nursemaid in the family of a banker at Pesth, was sent out with a child of fifteen months in a perambulator in the afternoon of a certain day, and did not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. LINDSAY, Crystal Palace Hotel, states to us that he was present in the Police Court on Friday when the charge of stealing a watch and chain was preferred against one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FREDERICK SCHULER, James Butcher, John Toohey, and Margaret Franklin, were each fined 5s, or in default 24 hours, for over indulgence in colonial beer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →William Lee, on bail, was charged with riotous behaviour and obecene language in Devos-street on the 29th ultimo. Constable Green deposed that about 11…
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