Murder of a Mine Manager
MR. WEBSTER, the English manager of the Le Blanca mine at Pachuca, Mexico, has been murdered by unknown persons on a public highway near Pachuca. It is…
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Courts & crime, 1890
1,064 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 54
The Attempted Murder of a Judge
WILHELM ARNEMANN, a German dentist, charged with the attempted murder of Judge Bristowe, was recently brought up at a special sitting of the Nottingham magistrates. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, January 29. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Gambling Case
THOMAS PALMER, licencee of the Travellers' Rest Hotel, Stoney Creek, Cooranbong, was charged with allowing a game of dice to be played upon his premises on the 26th Dec.,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, January 29. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Destruction of Property and Bad Language
CECILIA ROSS, 30, was fined £4, with 20s damage, in default, two months' gaol, for having wilfully damaged a pane of glass, the property of Robert Johnson, Hunter-street…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yesterday's Police Court. a Religious Argument. What came of it
THERE was a clean sheet in the Police Court yesterday when Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Shaw, J.P., took their seats on the bench. Shortly after 10 o'clock, however, the police…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend Police Court. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
CHARLES SIMPSON, in the employ of Mr. William Andrews, of Nelson-street, as a hairdresser, &c., was charged under warrant from Newtown with being the husband of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Accommodation. A Stepping-stone to Quarter Sessions. SYDNEY, Thursday Night
THE Minister for Justice (Mr. A. J. Gould) has not allowed the question of the establishment of Quarter Sessions in Newcastle to be forgotten. Having been informed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Bankruptcy Court. Thursday, January 30Th. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Public Examinations
THE public examination of witnesses in the estate of Alexander M'Kinnon, contractor, of West Wallsend, recently declared bankrupt, took place in the court-house yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CABLEGRAMS. Sentenced for Slander
LONDON, Tuesday.—Dr. Tanner, member of the House of Commons for Mid-Cork, was charged to-day with slandering Mr. Smith Barry, member for Huntingdon, and was…
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LONDON, Friday.—News is to hand that two youths have been arrested at Manchester, charged with the murder of their father under the most revolting circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, January 31. Obscene Language
ALEXANDER LOWE, a horny-handed Scotchman, was called upon to answer a charge of having used obscene language in a public place on the 30th instant. The facts, as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lambton Police Court. Friday, January 31, 1890. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
JOHN HORN pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly, and using in decent language at Catherine Hill Bay on January 18. Fined 10s and costs for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Bankruptcy Court. Friday, January 31St. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Public Examination
THE hearing of the evidence in the bankruptcy case of Alexander M'Kinnon was continued before Mr. Mair, P.M. at 11 o'clock yesterday morning…
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James Garside was charged, on remand, with stealing a pot plant, value 1s, from Mrs. Rose Storey, North Waratah, on the 28th ultimo…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lambton Police Court. Saturday, February 1, 1890. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Alleged Stealing of a Dog
FREDERICK MYLES was charged on warrant with stealing a greyhound, the property of David Hamlin, at Charlestown, on the 12th ultimo. The prosecutor applied for a remand…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, February 1. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M.) Drunks
JAMES GRAUER, 23 a seaman Hugh Clarke, a labourer, and John Blair, 31, a seaman, were fined the usual 5s or twenty-four hours, for being drunk in various parts of…
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MR. JAMES CURLEY, M.P., on Friday last received the following letter from the Minister for Public Works in reference to the erection of a now court-house at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Waratah Licensing Court. Saturday, February 1. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Gambling
WILLIAM SMITH, licensee of the Albion Hotel, Wallsend, pleaded guilty to allowing gaming with cards in his hotel on the 25th ult…
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WE are glad to observe that the Government are beginning to recover from that state of suspended animation under which they have so long suffered when Newcastle affairs were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, February 3Rd. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Ludlow, J.P.) Drunk and Indecent
ELIZABETH GRAY a woman of low degree, was fined 5s, or 24 hours, for being drunk in Hunter-street on Saturday evening, and for using obscene language a further penalty of…
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