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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,064 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 54
The board appointed to inquire into the alleged gaol irregularities have forwarded their report to the Colonial Secretary. They find the charges were unfounded, and made…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANTHONY WEST, an aged man, was charged on arrest with drunkenness on Monday evening in Elded-street. THE police having been sent for to quieten the accused who was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JUDGE M'FARLAND, Judge of the Southern district, has been appointed District Court Judge and Chairman of Quarter Sessions within the Metropolitan and Hunter district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT has been officially announced that the appointments to the Land Appeal Court constituted under the Land Act of 1889, have been made as follows:—Chairman, Mr. F. E…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN application for the transfer of the license of the Bridge Hotel, from Mrs. West to Simpson Hall. was granted. A CATTLE RAID…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT is stated that the question of pensions for the Metropolitan police is being considered departmentally. The principle of the measure in contemplation is to give a pension of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JAMES DENISON, 56, a plasterer, appeared on remand to answer charges of obtaininy goods to the value of £3 7s 6d from Tom H. Ingall on the 12th ult. £1 15s from J. M. Galley on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES, Borough of Plattsburg, v. T. A. Bourke, for permitting two crab winches to remain in Nelson-street on or about the 17th December, 1889…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HANS CHRISTIAN OLSEN, aged 33, a seaman, was fined 5s, or 24 hours, for being drunk and disorderly in Hunter street on the previous evening. Having No funds, he…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE following applications for licenses were dealt with:—James Hale, conditional license for premises at Islington confirmed, and a billiard license granted. The house had been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →John Kerr and William Creegan appeared to answer the charge of riotous conduct preferred against them by Constable Coughlin. They were found guilty, and fined 10s, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →M'CLYMENT v. Paterson: In this case, which was very lengthy, lasting over six hours, Jessie M'Clyment, a domestic servant, residing at Charlestown, sued John Paterson,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WILLIAM WATTSEN was charged with having offended against decency by exposing his parson on the Maitland-road on the 9th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—I appeared at the Police Court, Wallsend, on Thursday last to answer an information that I placed two winches on the carriage-way at Nelson-street, Plattsburg…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Thursday afternoon a slight disturbance took place in the labour yard of the Melbourne gaol. One of the prisoners declined to go to his cell when ordered by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MARY ANN CULLEN, a faded looking female, 37 years of age, wait fined 10s, with an option of 48 hours' retirement, for having been drunk in Bolton-street…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE police preferred a charge of sly grog selling against Thomas Donohoe, of Flaggy Creek near Redhead, but Thomas did not respond, and a warrant was issued for his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE particulars of the tragedy at Penrith on Friday afternoon show it to have been a crime of a terrible nature. At twenty minutes to 2 o'clock a young man named…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The premises of E. N. Yenkin and Company, wholesale oil and colour merchants, Flinders-street East, were entered by burglars on Friday night. The thieves…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE only case set down for adjudication was a Small Debts Court case, postponed on two previous occasions. Thomas Moss v. George Fenwick, being a claim for 15s damage to…
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