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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,064 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 54
MRS. SWINBURNE applied for a prohibition to prevent publicans from supplying her husband, James Swinburne with liquor. Mrs. Swinburne deposed that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOHN COMINS, 48, a labourer, Hugh Clarke, 28, a miner, Thomas Howell, 28, a miner, Olle Johnson, 35, a seaman, and John Maxtun, 37, a seaman were fined in sums…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE appeal of Messrs. Dixon and Co., tobacconists, of Sydney, adjourned from the previous Monday, was continued yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ROBERT FRASER, 36, a miner, and Albert Clements, 48, a fiddler, were each fined, 5s with the option of 24 hours' lockup. Wilfully Damaging…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HANNAH NOWLAN and Benjamin Williams were admonished and discharged for drunkenness on Friday night last John Leitch was fined £1 and costs for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LOUISA CRAWFORD and Archie Graham were each ordered to pay 5s, or do 24 hours' confinement for over-indulgence is strong drink…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWS comes from Shamokin, Pennsylvania that fifty Hungarian women were thrown into the river by a gang of miners and kept in the water until almost drowned. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. THOMAS MARTIN, stage manager at the Canterbury Music Hall, Birmingham, has died from the effects of an assault made upon him by a gang of roughs. It appears that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →EDWARD HENDERSON was charged with being drunk in Devon-street on the 21st inst., and on promising to do his best not to repeat the offence, was admonished and discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FRANK ROONEY , 45, a labourer, and Albert Clements, 48, were fined 5s and 10s respectively for being drunk. Indecency…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →August Monthey, of the Glebe, was summonded by Harry Davidson, charged with unlawful assault at Newcastle on the 21st instant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A GREAT sensation has been caused in the town of Medford, Wisconsin, by the murder of a local beauty. While walking in the street she was suddenly accosted by a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A FRIENDLY appeal court was held on Thursday evening. There were present: The Mayor, and Aldermen Youll, Banks, Weakly, Estell, Young, and Anderson,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WILLIAM EDWARDS and Frederick Johnson were each fined in the usual amounts for over-indulgence in strong drink…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following regulation has been substituted for No. 21 of the gaol regulations, made under the Prisons Regulations Act 4 Victoria No. 29, viz.:—All male prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Monday.—A proclaimed meeting was held yesterday at Tipperary notwith-standing the presence of a large number of police, who had been sent there to suppress…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A REPORT has reached Melbourne that a horrible murder was committed at Elmhurst, near Avoca, yesterday, but the particulars to hand are very meagre. Two men after a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SHOCKING murder was detected at Copenhagen on March 29. On the 7t of January an old factory messenger, who was sent out to cash some bills, disappeared without…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THOMAS AGNEY, Elizabeth Bray, and Daniel Sparkey, were each fined 10s, or in default 48 hour's confinement for over-indulgence. Liquor and Language…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MARY ANN CULLEN was charged with stealing a bundle of clothing, consisting of a shirt, two coats, and two pairs of trousers, from George Penman at Lambton on 22nd…
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