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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,064 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 54
JAMES MURPHY, Annie Stacey Winter, alias Fosbery, Robert Martindale, William Taylor, Thomas Draper, and John Donnelly were each fined in the usual amount for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pluto and Griffo, for engaging in a boxing match appeared before the police court to-day. The case was adjourned, in consequence of one of the defendants not having been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HENRY HANLON was charged by the police with assaulting his wife, Mary Ann Hanlon, on the 11th inst. Accused pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN DAVIS, 25, a seaman, and John Nugent, 35, a cook, were fined 5s each, with the regulation 24 hours alternative, for having been under the influence…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ABOUT 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a woman named Annie Winters went to the police station and stated that she had been robbed of the sum of £24 in gold, and about 15s in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT Northamptonshire Assizes, John Howe late governor Northampton gaol; Elizabeth Cross, matron of the gaol; and Thomas William Whitchurch, herbalist, were charged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SHORTLY after 6 o'clock last evening a coloured man, named John Williams, who has been residing at Carrington for the last three years, was arrested by Detective…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT Kirkby Stephen, a young man named Metcalfe shot his stepmother at Long Warton. The woman died immediately. Her murderer escaped, but was caught at Appleby…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ANNIE M'MANUS was charged with selling colonial beer on the 28th December at Flaggy Creek, near Charlestown. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr. J. A…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ELEVEN persons were fined in sums varying from 5s to 12s 6d for having committed breaches of the municipal by-laws. Assault on the High Seas…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A FARMER, named Dennis Brennan, an ex-sheriff's officer, of Delish, near Drimoleague, was beaten to death on Monday night whilst returning from Bantry Fair. Brennan took a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ISABELLA GRAHAM, aged 22, was fined 5s, or 24 hours, for being incapable in Hunter-street on the previous evening. She paid the fine, and departed smiting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CHARLES HAWKINS, licensee of the Imperial Hotel, Darby-street, pleaded guilty to a charge of selling liquor during prohiibted hours on the morning of New Year's Day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GEORGE NICHOLSON, a seaman on board the barque South Esk, who appeared at the police court on Wednesday as complainant in an assault case against the first mate of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A NEW YORK telegram says:—Mr. Cunningham, a millionaire, living at Milton, Massachusetts, disturbed an Italian tramp poaching on his estate the other night. In…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →JOHN JERMYN, William Hilton, Christopher Golingh[?]ly, Nathaniel Davis, William Campbell, James Johnson, and William Lonsdale, all boys, were again brought up charged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JAMES POWER, 48, a labourer, and John M'Lean, 54, a dealer, were ordered to hand over 5s each, with an option of 24 hours' retirement, for having yielded to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As 10 o'clock approached yesterday morning there was an unusual amount of animation visible in the vicinity of the police court, Hunter-street. Groups of men and women…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GEORGE NICHOLSON, 28, a seaman on the the barque, South Esk, pleaded guilty to assaulting William Hill, the captain of the ship. Complainant stated that accused had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Thursday Night.—From New York it is reported that Martin Burke, one of the three men sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of Dr. Cronin at…
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