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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,064 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 54
JAMES DONNELLY pleaded guilty to drunkenness in Now Lambton on the 4th instant, and was fined 5s and costs. Thomas Davies pleaded guilty to a similar…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FOR a couple of days past (says the N.Z. Herald, of April 4th) a number of seamen, about a dozen, belonging to H M.S. Egeria, have been outstaying their leave. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN to-day's Government Gazette appear proclamations amending the boundaries of the Newcastle and Raymond Terrace police and licensing districts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Court re-opened at 10 o'clock, Mr. C. G. Heydon prosecuted for the Crown…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON the conclusion of the evidence in the above case, as reported in our third page, Mr. Walter Edmunds, for the defence, reviewed, at great length, the evidence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RICHARD RAYCROFT and John M'Mahon, for over-indulgence in strong drink, were each ordered to contribute 5s to the revenue in default, 24 hours' confinement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DARING robbery is reported from Nerriga, where a man named Froude, a digger, was robbed of between £6 and £7, it is alleged, by a man named White, who is in business…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE accused in this case appeared in the dock wearing a huggard and careworn appearance, giving evidence of how keenly he felt his unfortunate position…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILLIAM DANIEL GRIFFITH and Henry Miller, were fined 5s, and 10s respectively for being drunk, in default 24 and 48 hours confinement…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE excitement in the town and district, consequent upon the horrible murder which had been perpetrated near Wagga Wagga, and the diabolical ingenuity with which the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. HEYDON prosecuted for the Crown. The court re-opened at 9 o'clock. Illegally Pawning. John Lewis pleaded not guilty to a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Samuel Beddome, who has occupied the position of Police Magistrate in Adelaide since 1856, has resigned. He was among the earliest investors in Broken Hills, and his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FRANK ELLIS, a sailor, was charged with stealing from the person of one Charles Fret-well the sum of £2 11s at Newcastle on the 13th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE body of a man, aged about thirty, was recently found in a wood near Princeton, in Canada, and it was clear that the deceased had been murdered. The corpse was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS case was continued yesterday morning. Defendant, who was partly examined on the previous day, continuing his evidence, said: He went to Melbourne early in November,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Henry Matthews, the Home Secretary, stated in the House of Commons that the Judge who tried the Crewe murder case approved of the execution…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FROM what can be gathered Smith's confession regarding the murder contains a statement to the effect that both parties had been drinking on Monday week and when some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AH CHOEY, of Belmont, was charged with wilfully exposing his person to two little girls, Margaret J. Cain and Harriett Morris, on the Belmont road, on Saturday, the 5th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JAMES FRASER, 50, a labourer, was fined 5s, with an alternative of 24 hours' goal, for being drunk in Hunter-street. Alleged Stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—Allow me a short space in your valuable paper, so that the public may see what I call a disgrace to the respectable residents of Lower Church-street. After…
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