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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,139 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 57
WILLIAM PORTER pleaded guilty to behaving in a riotous manner at Dudley, also to using indecent language on the 15th inst. In the first case he was fined £1 and costs,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CELIA KETTLETON, aged 12, was brought weeping before the Central Police Court this afternoon and charged with having stolen the sum of £21 0s 3d, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE City Coroner, at his court, Chancery-square, this morning resumed and concluded the inquest into the death of Jane M'Crow, who was so foully murdered on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FROM information obtained by Constables Thompson and M'Gill, of Charlestown, they, accompanied by Sergeant G. Salter, licensing inspector, went out to Burwood Extended on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hugh Ross and Bernard Manly pleaded guilty, through their wives, to not having sent their children to school. The former was fined 5s and 7s 4d costs, and the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Joseph Carmody has been arrested on a charge of breaking into a store in Stanley-street, and stealing £35. THE UNEMPLOYED…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Williams was brought up at the police court yesterday morning. The court was crowded. Detective Cawsey and the local police were not ready with the original…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN MARTIN, 50, a labourer, and Thomas Jonce, 42, a carpentor, were each fined 5s with an option of 24 hours' lockup for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following persons were fined in the undermentioned sums for having infringed the municipal bylaws specified:—Patrick Seymour, 17s 6d, for not leaving the 'bus…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two seamen, of the ship Toxteth, named Henry Gardiner, aged 26, and Michael M'Carthy, aged 23, were arrested yesterday afternoon, on a warrant charging them with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GEORGE DRUMMOND, 30, seaman; Alfred Wilkins, 28, seaman; and William Morgan, 42, miner, were each fined 5s, or in default 24 hours'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THAT rotten shell which acted as a boat to the water police yesterday when dragging for the bodies of the two victims in the drowning fatality, is without doubt a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ANGUS M'LEAN v John Wilson, the latter being charged with having a tarpaulin in his possession, the property of the Railway Department…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THOMAS WILKINSON, from Minmi, was charged by Constable Rogers with being in company with several others on Saturday night and behaving in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN enormous crowd attended the Criminal Court to-day to hear the sentences passed on Larkin and Cleary, the South Melbourne conspirators. Larkin was sentenced to six…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the Redfern Police Court to-day, William H. Sutton was charged with maliciously injuring the property of his brother, and with assaulting Adeline Sulton, his niece…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM MITCHELL, contractor, bankrupt, was publicly examined, no creditors being present. He stated that he had been bankrupt before…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MRS. MARGARET HALL, licensee of the Black Diamond Hotel, in Hunter-street West, pleaded guilty to a charge of keeping her premises open for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two men named Constant Peschard and Johanne Hondescene were recently brought before Sir John Bridge, at Bow-street, London, for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →James Houghton sued Mrs. Irwin for having committed a breach of the Tenants' Act, in not leaving a house of his after receiving due notice…
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