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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,064 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 54
DANIEL POLLOCK was charged on warrant with disobeying a summons wherein he was charged with being drunk and disorderly and using obscene language at Charlestown, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOHN RICE, aged 50, a labourer, was fined 5s or 24 hours for being drunk in Scott-street on the previous evening. Indecency…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two little lads, named George Leo Slarks and Reginald Slarks, were charged on warrant that being under the age of 10 years they were found habitually wandering about the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. A. S. LING, school-attendance officer appeared to prosecute several parents for neglecting to send their children to the Adamstown Public School, resulting as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN JENSEN, a seaman, was sentenced to three weeks' hard labour for wilfully disobeying lawful commands on board the B.R. barque London on the 20th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?]IZZIE DAVIES sued Michael J. Dunn for maintenance towards the support of her child. Mr. Gorrick solicitor, appeared on behalf of the defendant, and at once admitted the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JACOB RYAN, aged 49, a labourer, and John Leslie, aged 57, another working-man, were fined 5s, or 24 hours, and 10s, or 48 hours respectively, for being drunk on Saturday and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MARY MORGAN was charged with using indecent language to Christina Armstrong at Lambton on the 19th inst. Mr. J. A. Gorrick appeared to prosecute,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MICHAEL RYAN, aged 25, was fined 5s or 24 hours for being drunk in. Newcomen-street on the previous evening…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MICHAEL LEAHEY, 26, a seaman, was charged with having been absent without leave from the barque Pendle Hill, on the 1st instant Mr. Gorrick appeared for defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE quarterly sitting of the Newcastle District Land Court took place in the Court house yesterday Mr. James Vernon, the chairman of the board presided, the only other members…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JACOB SMITH, 35, a seaman, was charged with stealing a pair of boots valued at 7s 6d, the property of Benjamin Cooper of Hunter-street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HENRY RICHARDSON, a youth, was charged with making use of obscene language on Saturday evening about 10 p.m. Constable Munro deposed to the words used. A fine of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE station master at Bendachir, Tunis, has been fired at and killed. A detachment of gendarmerie left for the scene of the murder. It is not yet known by whom the crime…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN DONNELLY was charged on warrant issued by the Central Police Bench, Sydney, with breaking and entering the dwelling house of Mrs. Speed, Birkenhead, on the 10th…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday.—It is reported that the younger Davies, who, together with his mother and brother, was sentenced to death for the murder of his father, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A FOUL murder has been perpetrated at Sandgate. The body of Jordain Delarocea, a Frenchman, was found by Hamilton's survey on Friday evening with the skull smashed,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN M'MHON, 31, a seaman, Samuel Boyce, 52, a seaman, and Robert Hunter, 36 a seaman, and Robert Donnelly, 32, a labourer, were fined 5s, with the usual…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT Worchester Assizes the trial of Joseph Boswell, Samuel Boswell, and Alfred Hill, for the murder of Frederick Stevens, game-keeper to the Due D'Etumals, near Durham,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →OWEN THOMAS, 27, a miner, and Robert Kerr, 37, a labourer, were each fined 2s 6d, in default six hours' seclusion for being drunk…
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