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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,064 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 54
THE adjourned examination of J. B. G. Gibson, which had been postponed from Wednesday last, was continued at the police court yesterday afternoon. Messrs. D. J…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MICHARL DONNELLY, licensce of the Red Lion Hotel, Wallsend, was charged with allowing a drunken man, in the person of George Firkin, to remain on his premises on Sunday,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE inquest on the body of the woman Sarah Eveline Donalds, who in supposed to have been murdered on April 22. last by a Chinaman, Ah Dett, with whom she had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MICHAEL SHORT, age 50, a miner, and William Bell, a labourer, were fined the usual 5s, or 24 hours, for being drunk in Hunter-street on the prevuious evening…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WITH reference to the court-martial on sailors belonging to H.M.S. Egeria, it is stated that the court now sitting is merely a preliminary tribunal, and the matter of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The revision court for the revising of the electoral roll was hold, and, as usual, resulted satisfactorily under the supervision of Soenior-constable Robinson, who, with the rest of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three young men named Charles Prescott, Patrick Molloy, and Terence Molloy, were charged by John Barry, a resident of the Glebe, with having unlawfully assaulted him…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JAMES HOPE was chaged with being drunk in Mary-street, Plattsburg, on Saturday evening. From the evidence of Sergeant Gronnan it appears that the accused left the Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THOMAS BROWN, 26, a fireman, Michael M'Lean, 27, labourer, and Thomas Bunton, 27, a seaman, were each fined 5e, or 24 hours' imprisonment, for being dunk on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The public examination of George Peacock, a carpenter, of Newcastle, was held in an empty court, there being no creditors present…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JACOB HALL, licensee of the Black Diamond Hotel, pleaded guilty to having kept his house open for sale of liquor on Sunday, April 22nd. A fine of £3, and 5s 6d costs was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →PROBABLY never before in the history of Newcastle has a comedy been so successful as was "The Magistrate" at the Victoria Theatre last evening. The lower portion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE inquest on the body of the man Dennie Connell, who was murdered in the Domain near Mrs. Macquarie's a Chair, on the night of the 23rd April was resumed this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILLIAM EDWARDS, 49, a labourer, was fined £2, with an option of 14 days' gaol, for having behaved riotously in Market-street on the previous day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the Trades and Labour Council, on Thursday night, Mr. R. Harris gave notice of motion as follow:—" That this council is of opinion that the recent court-martial held…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE appeal against the sentence of four years penal servitude for maliciously wounding, imposed by the Chief Justice on the aboriginal Tommy Ryah, came on for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THERE was a great robbery on the steamer La Plata on her voyage from Bueonos Ayres to Antwerp. One hundred and seventy thousand dollars in specie and bonds were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALEXANDER LOWE, 47, a labourer, James Smith, 29, a labourer, and William Allen, 36, a labourer, were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' goal, for having been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE inquest in connection with the murder of Denis Connell in the Domain on the night of April 23 was resumed this morning. The Swede, Gustav Sten, or John Stone,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A friendly appeal court was held last night in the Adamstown Council-chambers. Present: The Mayor, and Aldermen Edden, Fairfull, Thwaites, Blakemore, Sheedy,…
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