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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,064 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 54
THOMAS WOOD, 30, a miner, and Thomas Thomas, 42, a labourer, were each fined 5s, with the usual 24 hours' option. Language…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Robert Clark, J.P., formerly member of the Legislative Assembly for Horsham, has committed suicide at that place by shooting himself…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WALTER SPEAKMAN, 30, a seaman, was charged with deserting from the British registered barque Jane Porter, at Newcastle, on the 21st ult…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FOSTER V. EVANS, wages case. Mr. Dart appeared for the complainant. Verdict by consent £3 and costs. Lucy Curry v. Fanny Nichols, charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday Night.—The men arrested on a charge of attempting to bribe jurors in the recent Cronin murder trial at Chicago have been arraigned and their trial…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MICHAEL SHORT, an old identity, presented a pitiable sight in the dock when charged with vagarancy. He had been drinking freely of late, and was found by the police lying on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WHEN M. Johnson introduced as his guest at our monthly dinner recently (writes a foreign journalist) a modest-looking gentleman with fair hair and moustache and bright…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—In your issue of the 12th inst. in an article under the above heading appears the following statement:—"During the time Mr. Fletcher was in power he had plans…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the District Court, Sydney, recently, before Judge Wilkinson, the Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company, Limited, sued Dr. Maurice O'Connor, of College-street, for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Friday.—It is reported from Westham that a young girl, 15 years of age, who had been missing from her home for a fortnight, has been outraged and strangled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALFRED GREENWOOD, a seaman, was fined 5s or 24 hours for being drunk in Hunter-street on the previous evening. A Waif…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RATHER an amusing anecdote, which (remarks the London correspondent of the Western Mail) I have every reason for believing to be true, comes to me concerning…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ROBERT LAWRENCE was charged with destroying the coat of Anthony Gallagher, on the 8th inst. From the evidence it would appear that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WILLIAM INNEN, 21, a groom, Charles Ingram, 48, a fireman, and Andrew Stronglow, 32, a seaman, were fined 10s, 5s, and 10s respectively, for having been drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THOMAS M'NAMARA was charged with being drunk and disorderly in the bar of the Commercial Hotel, Elder-street, Lambton, on the 17th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →HUGH M'CONNELL and Richard Delohoyde pleaded guilty to have been drunk and disorderly, and were each fined 10s, with the option of 48 hours' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the Criminal Court this morning Willoughby Andrew stood in the dock charged with having murdered James Henry Bartlett, of King-street, on November 10 last. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE news of the death of Mr. John Lovett, the Governor of Darlinghurst Gaol, will be received with considerable surprise and universally regretted. Darling the past 12 months…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE adjourned hearing of the examination of Walter Bramble was continued before Mr. Mair, commissioner in bankruptcy, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEIL M'FADYEN, 59 a seaman; Kate Webb, 49; Frederick Mason, 39, a labourer; and Maurice Collis, 54, a sailmaker, were each fined 5s, with the usual 24 hours' alternative,…
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