Queensland. Charge of Assault
At the District Court on Tuesday last Edward Dess, a well-known clothier of Queen-street, was charged with maliciously wounding Arthur…
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Courts & crime, 1891
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Waratah Police Court Wednesday, October 21. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Cattle Straying
MR. SYDNEY M'DONALD, inspector of nuisances, appeared to prosecute in the following cases of offences against the bylaws :—John Phillips, cow…
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AT Tokepa (Kansas), Count Gustave Berger, s German, first boat and then Shot his wife, just before breakfast, because she asked him for 4s 2d wherewith to buy their child some…
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M. MONTIERS, a Belgian' millionaire, has been found murdered in his chateau at Hamme-St-Pierre. The deed was not the work of thieves or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, October 22. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks
JOSEPH WILSON, 50, labourer, and Thomas Donovan, 35, seaman, were each fined 5s, or in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend-Plattsburg Police Court. Thursday, October 22. (Before R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
THE only business to-day was a charge of insulting language preferred against W. Wallace by John Thirston on the 17th instant. From the…
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Harry Parker, Arthur M'Cracken, and Thomas Hughes, all youths of tender years, pleaded guilty to charges of trespassing on the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bankruptcy Court. Thursday, October 22. (Before Mr. Mair, District Registrar.)
SINGLE meetings of creditors were held in the estates of: William Byron, of Newtown, Hamilton ; George Wright, of Zara-street, Sandhills;…
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INSPECTOR BRENNAN returned to this city yesterday from his quarterly inspection of the most remote parts of the Newcastle police district. He loft a week ago, and has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Assault Upon a Child
A YOUNG man named William Emmerson has been apprehended at Iluka, and is in custody at Maclean, for perpetrating a criminal assauit upon a child named Elizabeth Summers,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, October 23. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Shaw and Asher, Js.P.) Drunks
PETER DUFF, 30, a fireman, and Alexander Douglas, 82, an engine-driver, were called upon to pay 5a each, or go to gaol for 24 hours, for having been drunk on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, October 24. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks
JAMES MACKIE, 28, miner; William Massey, 32, John Hansen, 18, James Clarke, 45, and John Bell, 45, seamen, were each fined 5s, or in default…
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Henry Trelevan, waterman, was charged by the firm of Bibby and Tighe, auctioneers and timber merchants, with having in September…
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It will be remembered that some time ago the Plattsburg Council moved in the matter of obtaining a Licensing Court at the local…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, October 26. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Christie, J.P.) Drunks
WILLIAM BOURKE, 40, a labourer, Thomas Watson, 52, seaman, Oliver Jacob, 45, seaman, and James M'Lean, 30, labourer, were each…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Cold-blooded Murder. The Supposed Assassin Arrested. BRISBANE
INSPECTOR MATTHEWS, of Mackay, wires that one Macdonald, while travelling with a mob of cattle from Larcom to Charters Towers, is supposed to have been murdered…
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BERLIN, Monday.âSculze, an unemployed clerk, has been arrested on suspicion of an atrocious murder, in which the victim was frightfully mutilated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, October 27. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M. Indecency
AGNES O'NEILL, 32, a married woman, was fined £2, with levy and distress, for indecent exposure. Michael Lee, 24, a seaman, and John…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, October 27. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) a Night Prowler
PETER NELSON Was charged with being found upon enclosed premises on Sunday morning last for an unlawful purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Meeting of the Executive. The Dalton Murder Case. SYDNEY
AT a meeting of the Executive Council to-day under the presidency of the Governor, Mr. John Kidd, member for Camden, was sworn in as Postmaster-General. Among…
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