Mysterious Murder
THE body or a young peasant girl, terribly mutilated, has been discovered in a forest near Berne. The crime resembles the White-chapel murders in several of its details…
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Courts & crime, 1891
946 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 48
Wickham Revision Court
THE Wickham Council held an open court of revision in the council chambers, at half-past 7 o'clock last evening, for the purpose of revising the municipal lists for the current…
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Stephen Denton sued one Thos. J. M. Corlett for the sum of £10 Gs, alleged to be due in wages. Mr. Gorrick appeared for complainant, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, January 21. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Publican's Transfer Refused
Application was made for the transfer of the license of the Waratah Hotel, Maitland-road, from Aaron Ball to Owen Elding. Licensing-Inspector Sergeant Grennan…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, January 21St. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and W. H. Shaw, J.P.) Drunks
MICHAEL RYAN, a trimmer, and Thomas Taylor, 47, a labourer, were fined 10s and 5s respectively, with the usual alternative, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, January 22. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks
ALFRED LESLIE, age 30, a seaman, who was locked up on the previous evening for being drunk in Newcomen-street, and liberated on bail, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, January 23Rd. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Thorn, J.P.) Drunks
WILLIAM SWEENY, 35, a seaman, George Scott, 40, a labourer, and John Mitchell, 48, a painter, were each fined 5s, with an alternative of twenty-four hours' lockup, for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lambton Police Court. Friday, January 23. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Value of a Dog's Leg
JOSEPH PALMER summoned Robert Morgan, a young men, for malicious injury to a dog by breaking its leg, and claimed damages £10. Defendant appeared, but requested time to…
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SHORTLY after nine o'clock on Saturday evening a man walked into Mr. Pearce's shop in Hunter-street, and asked to be shown some first-class silver watches. Several cases were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, January 24Th. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Inebriate
IN reply to a charge of drunkenness, Ellen Taylor assured the Police Magistrate that she was as sober as a judge on the previous day, and expressed surprise at being run in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District News. Plattsburg. Municipal Revision Court
PRESENT: The Mayor, and Aldermen M'crae, youll, Weakley, Anderson, Blackie, young, Banks, and Estell. As there were no applications to have names inserted on the list,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Latest District News. Stockton. Revision Court
A SPECIAL meeting of the council was held on Saturday night for the purpose of revising the municipal lists as the Act directs. There were present: Alderman Beveridge (the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Queensland. Scarlet Fever in the Gaol
It is rumoured that the outbreak of scarlet fever at St. Helena has assumed a serious phase, and that a number of patients have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 26Th. (Before Mr. Ludlow, J.P.
SEVERAL persons were brought up and discharged for drunkenness, language, and riotous conduct; and a minor named John Smith was fined 20s, with an option of seven…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →South Australia. Adelaide, Tuesday. Charged with Burglary
A well-known criminal named Wm. Hill was committed for trial, for burglary, at the police court to-day. Accused opened the windows of several houses in the city and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday. Charged with Wilful Murder
At the inquest on the body of Ada Hatton, who was murdered on the 15th instant by Thomas Phelan, with whom she had been living, by cutting her throat, a verdict of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, January 27. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Stealing From the Person
JOHN QUILTY, a navy, was charged with stealing the sum of £2 12s, a leather belt, and a silk handkerchief from the person of John Moore at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, January 27. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks
LAURENCE BOYLE, 60, and Thomas Claudeville, 30, were fined 5s and 10s respectively, with the usual alternatives, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Waratah Police Court. Tuesday, January 27. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Alleged Attempted Rape
ROBERT TRAVERS, alias "Tommy," a powerfully-built aboriginal, about 6ft high, and very robust, was charged with attempted rape upon Lois Spicer,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charge of Murder
AT the Stafford Assize, John Wise, 35, steel fitter, was charged with murdering Mary Davis, at Sedgley. The prisoner's wife had sloped with Mrs. Davis's son, and he vainly…
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