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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 59 of 60
THOMAS ROBINSON, a very little boy, 10 years of age, was charged with stoaling lollies, the property of Mr. John Tiplady, of Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE young men Paxton and Smith, who at present stand charged with having caused the death of Henry Blackburn on the night of November 16 were brought before…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON May 22nd last, the body of Dr. CRONIN, who had been missing for over a fortnight previous, was found in a sewer, in a condition which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An application by Job Williams, licensee of the Northumberland Hotel, Newcastle, to transfer his license to Joseph Goundry, of Wollongong, was withdrawn by Mr. Gorrick,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CHRISTOPHER LEONARD was charged that he was deemed to be insane. Constable Charles Rochfort stated that he arrested accused in Charlton-street on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The man Dearmear, charged with the attempted murder of T. J. Price at North Adelaide, on November 9, was committed for trial at the police…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →AN ex-convict named Shea started out in Boston with the intention of murdering John L. Sullivan, but his seven-shooter was taken away from him. He found Sullivan in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HENRY JONEs pleaded guilty to excessive indulgence in liquors at Charlestown, on the 13th inst, and was fined 5s and costs. NEWCASTLE N.S.W.—Printed and published by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JOHN COLLINS and John Moss were each fined the usual 5s or twenty-four hours for over-indulgence in strong drink. Stone-threwing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the Central Police Court yesterday the hearing of the charge against Frank Smith and George Paxton of having murdered Henry Blackburn on the night of November…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE only case adjudicated upon this morning was one in which Charles Moreweek sued Thomas Donnelly for the sum of £6 18s 6d, wages due…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALEXANDER LEITCH, P. Wallace, and Agnes O'Neil were each fined in the usual amounts for over-indulgence. D. and D…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MUNICIPAL dignitary (to police official).— Order the force to have everything in readiness for a descent on the gambling houses to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JAMES CROPPER pleaded guilty to a charge of making use of obscene language in Elder-street on the 18th instant, and was fined 5s and costs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN elderly man, named James Denison, described as a draper, faced the Bench to answer a charge of having obtained from J. M. Galley the sum of £2 10s by means of a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR. W. SHAW, J.P., visited the lockup early on Christmas morning, and to seven drunks who had been "lumbered" on the previous evening or that morning, he delivered a few…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ONE of the most terrible tragedies which has has ever occurred in Newcastle took place in Hunter-street on Christmas night, when a man named William Robinson shot his wife,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ABOUT 4 o'clock, on Christmas afternoon a boy named Callanan, nine years of age, who was bathing on the bench behind the hospital was seen to get out of his depth and sink…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM GOLDSPRING, seaman, was committed to the assizes by the Liverpool stipendiary, charged with the attempted murder of Andrew Look, second mate of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AN attempt to murder a county court judge has boon made by a disappointed litigant. It appears that one William Edward Arnemann, a German, aged forty-five, came…
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