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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,064 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 52 of 54
NOAH CARTWRIGHT was charged with using obscene language at the bar of the Postoffice Hotel, on the 12th instant, and was fined 10s, and 5s 6d costs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THOMAS MURPHY, 59, a seaman; John Burns, 32, a blacksmith; Alexander Grant, 30, a cook; George Teasdale, 32, a miner; and Joseph Hartley, 47, a labourer; Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DENIS O'HEARN, Robert Carruthers, Daniel Logue, and Robert Munro surrendered to their bail, and were arraigned on a charge of refusing to assist the police when called…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Charles Davis sued Peter Johnston for assault, and Johnston brought a similar charge against Davis, but as the parties did not appear both cases…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LOUIS MURRAY, 30, a seaman, John Brown, 40, a seaman, John Beaten, 30, a labourer, and Bridget Divine, 48, were fined in sums varying from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ISAAC BLACKWELL was charged on arrest with being drunk and disorderly, and using obscene language in Elder-street, on the 15th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN connection with the establishment of a Court of Petty Sessions at Swansea, Mr. R. Stevenson, M.P. for Wollombi, has received the following letter:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A YOUNG woman named Emily Black was arrested by Constable Lane, about a quarter to 9 o'clock last night, on a charge of larceny. The accused is alleged to have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Booth licenses were granted to William Smith, Albion Hotel, Wallsend; Joseph Howell, Queen's Head Hotel, Plattsburg; Simpson Hall, Bridge Hotel, Plattsburg;…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MARY NELSON pleaded guilty to a double charge of being drunk in the bar of the Travellers' Rest Hotel, North Hexham, on the 9th instant, also to using obscene…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CHARLES SMITH, 31, a seaman; John Coyle, 45, a labourer; Thomas Johnson, 41, a labourer; and Joseph Lomas, 40, a labourer, were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →James Taylor sued Thomas Moroney for having assaulted him at the Stockton pit on the morning of the 12th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The trial of Fatta Chand, the Hindoo charged with murdering an Indian hawker, has been postponed till the February sessions. THR STUDENTS' STRIKE…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THOS PRITCHARD, on warrant, was charged with being drunk and disorderly at Minmi, and also using obscene language. For the first…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—An intelligent observer can some to no other conclusion than that the abovenamed department has been lamentably neglected at the most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GEORGE MILLER, 60, a carpenter, was fined 5s, with an alternative of 24 hours' lookup, for drunkenness. Larceny…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE following were the cases for the week, tried before Messrs; J. N. Brooks, P.M., and A. E. O. Walker, J.P.:—Thomas Pritchard was fined 5s for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MAGISTRATE (to witness, who had been subpœned to give evidence on an important 'dummying' case): 'What is your name?'…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →AN extraordinary double murder took place at St. Paul's, Minnesota, in which all the parties are well-known citizens. It appears that a herd of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →SIMON OLSEN, aged 17, a Norwegian seaman, and Louis Murray, aged 30, a seaman, were fined the usual 5s, or twenty-four hours' imprisonment for being drunk on the previous…
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