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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,064 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 54
JOHN SELT was charged with stealing from the person of Patrick Keeleher the sum of 12s on the 27th instant at Swansea, Lake Macquarie…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GEORGE W. WILSON, suspected of being of unsound mind, was discharged. Inebriates. Samuel Romilind, 56, a seaman, John…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN extraordinary case came before Mr. Corser at the Dalston (London) police court recently. On a servant girl being charged with stealing two pairs of boots, it was stated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THERE Was only one offender before the court. Over indulgence the cause, and the usual 10s the result…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Roeburne Criminal Session, a native was sentenced to death for the murder of a native boy at Ashburton some months ago. The body of the victim was partly eaten…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JAMES RICHMOND was brought up as a person deemed to be insane. Sergeant Grennan deposed to arresting the accused at about a quarter to 12 o'clock on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The P.M., before commencing proceedings, stated that he was personally suffering from the effects of his recent accident, and were it not for his determination…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JOHN MITCHELL, Thomas Ballinson, Annie Allen, and Elizabeth Burrowes were each fined 5s, with the usual 24 hours' option for being drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT 6 o'clock this morning the body of a man was found on the reserve at North Melbourne. The unfortunate fellow had evidently been murdered, as a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALTHOUGH no decision has yet been come to with regard to the personnel of the new Land Court, it, is understood that the chairman will be chosen from Mr. J. E. Rogers, Q. C…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MARY SYMMONS, 46 and James Clayton, 25 a miner, were find 5s and 10s respectively with the usual alternatives, for having imbibed too freely…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JAMES EASTON pleaded guilty to using obscene language at Jesmond on the 28th ult., and was fined 10s and costs. William Campbell, an old offender was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →John Wooten was remanded at the Charlton Court on £200 bail for savagely assaulting Patrick Larkin, a local publican. It appears that a crowd of larrikins entered Larkin's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A CRIMES Act Court was held at Gorey (Wexford) recently, when the charges against M'Carthy, John Ryan, Michael Ryan, Thomas Lenehan, and Michael…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TMOMAS MATHIESON and Mary Ann Cullen were each fined the usual 5s or 24 hours for over indulgence in strong drink. Set at Liberty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →EUWIN v. Joseph Hestelow.—This was a case in which the complainant claimed a sum of money alleged to be due for logs, to be paid for at the stump at per running foot…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FREDERICK HARVEY, 25, a drover; Hugh M'Farlane, 40, a seaman; Ruth Solway, 18; Benjamin Cooper, 26, a miner; Mary Ann Cullen, 37; Thomas Molloy, 27, a seaman,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE following publicans' Licenses were renewed:âThomas Robinson, Post Office Hotel, Plattsburg; George Turnbull, hotel, Young Wallsend; Richard Wood, Bonnie…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR. HAAYES, the clerk of the Newcastle Petty Sessions, unlike many of his brother officers in the Government service, has finished the returns of his department for the year ending…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FOR the first time for over two years Mr. Mair, the local police magistrate, on stepping on to the Bench yesterday morning found his occupation gone, as there was not one…
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