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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
946 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 48
The official assignee reported that insolvent's liabilities were £65 16s 10d, and his assets nil. Bankrupt stated that he had been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The case in which Annie Minto sued Elizabeth Lobley for indecent language, held over from the previous day, was called. John Beveridge, Mayor of Stockton, stated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A stylishy-apparelled woman named Mary Jackson sued an equally fashionable-looking girl named Clara Jane Thomas on a charge of having assaulted her in Hunter-street on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MORRIS COLLIS, 35, a shoemaker; Thomas Cleary, 56, a draper; John M'Mahon, 38, a labourer; and Edwin Crawford, 42, a labourer, were each fined 5s, with an option…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JOSEPH CROSS, miner, and Ellen Morgan, married woman, were each fined 5s, or twenty-four hours in the lockup, for over-indulgence in strong…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Margaret Johnston was arraigned on a charge of robbing John Johnson, a sailor, of £2, on the evening of May 29. The woman, who was defended by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →James Murphy, a youth, was charged with attempting to steal a pair of boots, on the 21st of May, from the shop of Daniel Smith, in Hunter-street. He pleaded "Not…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ellen Nugent, a domestic servant, was arraigned on a charge of stealing a gold watch, the property of John Mackenzie, the Examiner of Coalfields There was a second…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A FORTY years' mystery has just been solved at Ashton-under-Lyne by the death-bed confession of an inmate of the workhouse named Mary Ann…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MAURICE COLLIS, 55, a shoemaker; Patrick Healey, 30, a labourer, George Harper, 55, a miner; George Scott, 40, a miner; and Ellen Morgan,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JENKIN EVANS was brought up for being drunk in Macquarie-street on Saturday, and was called upon to pay a fine of £1, or seven days. A second…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A RATHER interesting divorce suit—Cooper v. Cooper—was commenced before his Honor Sir William Windeyer this morning. The petitioner, Parthenia Cooper, sues for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE first sittings of Quarter Sessions held in this district for many years commenced in the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday morning, before Mr. District Court Judge…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HUGH AGNEW Was charged, on remand, with maliciously assaulting Robert Musgrove, by striking him on the head with a mall handle, at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT the Dubbo gaol this morning, Lara Peter Hansen, the Peak Hill murderer, was executed for the murder of his mate, Charles Duncker, better known as the "Little…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SARAH PRICE, a dressmaker, for making use of obscene language in Hunter-street on the previous evening, was ordered to pay £2, or go up for 14…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Monday.—With regard to the case against M. Turpin, the inventor of melinite, who is in custody in Paris, charged with treason in offering to sell the secret of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →REUBEN SMITH, committed from the Wallsend Bench, was arraigned on a charge of wilfully and falsely swearing, on December 4th, 1890, that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Monday.—General Chen Ki Tong, lately Chinese Ambassador at Paris, who disappeared from his poet owing to financial troubles, and returned to China, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PETER ANTONIO, an Italian, surrendered to his bail, and was arraigned on a charge of beating and ill-treating William Spowart on the 23rd of…
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