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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,064 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 54
AGAIN we have to record another clean sheet so far as the police business goes. Since the advent of the New Year few, if any, drunks have been recorded. This either speaks…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MARY LEWIS, a little girl residing at the Junction, summoned James Brooder for assault. From the evidence it appeared that the plaintiff threw a stone at the defendant's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JOHN WILLIAMS was charged on remand with stealing a carpet bag, containing two dresses, a cloud, and two books, the property of Lilly Bankler…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ANNIE M'MANUS was charged, on adjournment with selling liquor without a license at Flagey Creek, near Charlestown, on the 28th December, 1889…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JEMIMA WILLIAMS, a married woman, 29 years of age, was fined 10s in default 48 hours cofinement for being drunk and disorderly in Darby-street on the 21st instant,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CORNELIUS KINNEAR, 40, a labourer, and John Bell, 35, a miner, were fined 5s and 10s respectively for having been under the influence…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →William W. Couch and George Davis, two miners of Sandhurst, arrested, the former for burglary and the latter for stealing copper plates from the mines, have each…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mayor then opened the Revision Court, and the clerk having read the names, and there being no applications for insertion, after striking out two deaths, the Mayor was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →RACHAEL MOSS summoned her sister Maria France, aged 15, for using insulting language to her at New Lambton on the 21st instant…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—The Earl of Galloway, who was recently acquitted on a charge of indecently assaulting a young girl, has been further accused of molesting other young…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JAMES BROWN, a labourer, for travelling by the steamer Sydney from Sydney to Newcastle without paying his fare, was fined 20s, or seven days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MINER named John Heaton, for using obscene language at Islington, was fined £2, in default 14 day's gaol. Accused went up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A FIRE broke out on Thursday at Old Junee on Mr. Kevin O'Rourke's stubble paddock, and the flames extended over several thousand acres of the surrounding country. O'Rourke…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DANIEL GILLEY, George Purcell, John Collins, and Thomas Thompson, were each fined in the usual amounts for over indulgence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOHN THOMAS, described as a stone-breaker, was charged with illegally using a certain horse, saddle and bridle, the property of Daniel Mather. From the evidence it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The man Willis was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having murdered Henry O'Halloran. The accused read a long statement, in which he admitted killing the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GEORGE DENT and Robert Murphy were jointly charged with riotous behaviour in Howe-street on the 19th inst. Dent pleaded guilty, and Murphy pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CASPER CLISPY, a disappointed lover, of St. Louis, has committed suicide. He became enamoured of Miss Mary Anson, who reciprocated his affection, but Anson pere…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →William Pinto was charged with using the most obscene language he could command in the Crystal Palace Gardens on Anniversary Day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ELIZABETH ELLIOTT, 40, Jeremiah Daley, 59, a seaman, and Daniel Gilley, 34, a seaman, were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours, for having been drunk, and David Reece, 45,…
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