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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,064 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 44 of 54
AN application for the transfer of a colonial wine license from Wilfred Wyndham to Augustus Daniel Manning, of Hunter-street, was granted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WILLIAM BEGWELL, for being drunk in Hunter-street, was fined the usual 5s, or 25 hours. The Confectionery Cases…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An aboriginal named Milly was committed for trial to-day at Streaky Bay, for murdering his lubra with a tomahawk. He had buried her in a wombat hole…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM FOLEY, a youth, pleaded guilty to destroying a sapling on enclosed, land, Waratah, the property of Mr. Joseph Plamer, and valued at 1st…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SHORTLY before 1 o'clock yesterday morning, Constable Joseph Martin was on duty in Hunter-street West, when he heard cries of distress a little further along the thorough…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THOMAS TURNER, 28, a seaman, and Charles Merrow, 23, a seaman, were fined 10s and 5s respectively for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE only business this morning was Robert Dewar, who was fined £1, or seven days, for being drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →EDWARD GILLAM, 38, a miner; George Thompson, 33, a miner; Augustus Inch, 30, a labourer; William Mitchell, 50, a seaman; and Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the Dubbo Police Court, to-day, the charge against Hanson for the murder of Duncker, on the Peak Hill-road, was resumed. Prisoner was committed to take his trial at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN ASHCROFT and Edward Pickup, on bail, were brought up, on remand from the 20th instant, and charged, under section 53 of the Criminal Law…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE adjourned meeting of the creditors in the bankrupt estate of Griffith and Owtram was held in the courthouse yesterday, before Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GEORGE KEARNS, age 50, a labourer, and William Edwards, 49, a labourer, were fined 5s, or, in default, 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DAVID JONES, junr., 12 years of age, and Edward Jones, 9 years of age, were charged with stealing nine bundles of cigars and eight bottles of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILLIAM BILLING, 50, a seaman, Joseph Sheridan, 32, a seaman, and William Jones, 37, a labourer, were each fined 5s, in default twenty-four…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Cronin appeared for bankrupt. No debts having been proved, the meeting was declared closed. Bankrupt stated that he was a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE following are the cases for the week before Messrs. J. M. Brooks, E. E. Wright, and A. E. O. Walker, Js.P.:— James Burt, for drunkenness, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT Constantinople on September 10, as the Armenian Bishop Tadjad Oscanian was leaving church, a young Armenian armed with a knife threw…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THOMAS DIAL, a young man, pleaded guilty to behaving in a riotous manner in Regent-street, New Lambton, on the 22nd inst. In reply to the Police Magistrate,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →PATRICK DWYER, 33, a seaman, was fined 5s, with the usual 24 hours' alternative, for drunkenness. Absent Without Leave…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEAR Fayetteville, Tenn., shortly after the recent cyclone which did so much damage in that state and Kentucky, old Jed Tompkins, coloured, was hauled up before 'Squire Nason…
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