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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
946 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 44 of 48
IN the Supreme Court to-day, before Judge Boucaut, William Henry Saunders, aged 16, pleaded guilty to committing an unlawful assault upon a girl under age (12 years). He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Henry Trelevan and Michael James surrendered to their bail, and pleaded "not guilty" to an indictment charging them with stealing, in company…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →William Gilder, a miner, aged 36, surrendered to his bail, and pleaded "not guilty" to a charge of assaulting Thomas Freeman, occasioning him…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →William Parker, a nightman, surrendered to his bail and was charged with having on the 18th of November last stolen a goat, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The District Court will commence this morning. Since the last sittings upwards of 240 cases have been entered, of which 58 will be called…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In consequence of the alarming frequency of serious offences in Albury, particularly of the housebreaking class, the police force has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ON the 1st of September last a man named John Prideaux was, on the application of Mrs. Hindmarsh, his mother-in-law, called on to pay, by the local Police Bench, the sum of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JAMES HUGHES, 37, a labourer, and Joseph Newman, 21, a labourer, were fined 5s and 10s respectively for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE December sittings of the District Court commenced yesterday, before His Honor Judge Backhouse. The list, which is a lengthy one, containing 58 cases, was called…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jos. Coleman, inspector of nuisances, v. John Dodds, for horse-straying in Campbell-street, Wallsend. Fined is and 6s 5d costs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IMMEDIATELY the Court opened to-day the Police Magistrate announced that arrangements had been completed for the Licensing Court in future being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GEORGE MACPHERSON, 35, was charged at the Water Police Court this morning with the theft of a portmanteau containing articles of clothing and other things to the value…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A COLOURED youth named George Carroll was arraigned at the Central Criminal Court to-day on an indiesment charging him with having on October 21 criminally assaulted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FROM the announcement made by the Police Magistrate at Wallsend yesterday it will be observed that in future the business in connection with the Licensing Court will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE case of Earp v. Hall, adjourned on the previous day so that his Honor could visit the defendant's office where the alleged slanderous words…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A YOUNG and respectably-dressed married woman, named Sophie Pace, was charged with having attempted to commit suicide at Newcastle on the 3rd inst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Eudunda murder case, in which a well-to-do farmer named Benjamin Watts was charged with murdering Thomas Lort, a neighbour, during a drunken carousal, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEIL ROBINSON, 30, a labourer, and James Fulton, 58, a blacksmith, were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours' lockup for drunkenness,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The case against Benjamin Walls for the murder of Thomas Lout at Bundry on November 14 was further continued, and the case for the prosecution finished. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The trial of Benjamin Watts for the murder of Thomas Lot, near Evadanda, was completed on Saturday. Mr. Symon, who appeared for the prisoner, made a powerful…
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