These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,064 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 54
DAVID THOMAS made application for a publican's license for premises erected at Cardiff, on the Sydney line. Mr. J. A. Gorrick appeared for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RALPH TAYLOR, Thomas Coates, and John Devon were charged that they did, on the 4th day of April, unlawfully assault one Thomas Cox, by beating him in Kemp-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Reay, licensee of the Adamstown Hotel, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having kept his licensed premises open for the sale of liquor on Sunday, the 23rd…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FREDERICK SMITH, 26, a seaman, George Gray, 45, an engineer, John Finn, 45, a labourer, and John Reay, 34, a seaman, were each fined 5s, with an alternative of 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the Central Criminal Court this morning the notorious Tommy Ryan, who is now undergoing a sentence of four years' imprisonment for wounding Constable Hadley,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The business adjourned from the previons day was resumed James Chilvers made application for a publican's conditional license for a house…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FIVE seamen, named Arthur Middleton Alfred Pilemin, Frank Furling, Stephen Lyon, and Alex. Erickson, pleaded guilty to having combined together to disobey lawful…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Thursday.—Constance Kent, sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of her half-brother, has been released on ticket-of-leave…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GEORGE NASH was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' retirement, for being drunk in Darby-street. Absent Without Leave…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A rather interesting case of neighbourly troubles occupied a couple of hours at the police court yesterday morning. The parties were a young girl named Sarah Green and a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ten coroner's court opened this morning. Schmidt, the accused, was too ill to attend. He is somewhat better, being able to sit up and read yesterday, but fears of a relapse…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →John Rigney, a young labourer, who was arrested on Saturday night on suspicion of the murder of Gervaise Dubroceas, at Sand-gate, was brought up at the police court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DANIEL MULURRN, 50, a labourer, was fined 5s, with a 24 hours' alternative, for being drunk. Alleged Insanity…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A BRUTAL murder is reported here. The body of a woman with the skull split and face gashed was found lying near the road in the domain. The body lay in a pool of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THOMAS M'CULLOCH pleaded guilty to the double charge of drunkenness and obscenity on Sunday, the 20th inst. The P.M. repeated his decision to inflict heavy penalties…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN extraordinary incident occurred recently in the Court of Appeal in Bucharest. Judgment was about to be given in a case under decision, when the counsel to one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The Russian authorities have held a formal inquiry into the allegation that a Russian officer, for a money consideration, gave to Baron von Plessen, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN KENNEDY, 29, Alexander Brown, 27, Walter Waters, 31, Carl Vandlang, 31, John Stewart, 26, and William Brown, 24, were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The German religious enthusiast named Polack, who recently threw a bundle of tracts into Parliament, was ejected from the local police court to-day for refusing to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BANKRUPT stated that he was an engine driver, and that his insolvency had been caused by a dearth of employment. He had a wife and two children…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →