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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,139 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 57
JACK POONA, Frank Vaughan, Jack Richardson, Mrs. Poona, and William Russell, all aboriginals, were charged with having been drunk in various parts of the city on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WILLIAM KEEFE, a butcher in the employ of Gale Bros., butchers, Wickham, was charged with blowing meat on the 1st inst., at Waratah…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →George Lennon, cabman, was fined 10s, and 2s 6d costs, for driving his vehicle without lights, and John Warns was similarly treated for turning a street corner with his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. T. C. J. Foster prosecuted for the Crown…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →As examination into the bankrupt estate of Edward Scott, cab proprietor, Watt-street, under section 30 of the Bankruptcy Act, for the discovery of the bankrupt's property,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JOHN RYAN, the seaman who was taken to the hospital on Tuesday night, suffering from serious injuries alleged to have been inflicted by an Indian named James Deane in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →EDWARD P. KELLY was charged on remand at the Central Police Court this morning, before Mr. J. Giles, D.S.M., with having stolen an overcoat from the Metropolitan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two seamen, named James Fitzgerald and Daniel Smith, and a fireman, named William Betts, were each fined 5s with an option of 24 hours' lockup…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Colonial Secretary will shortly make important alterations in the police, putting the detective department and the police department under one head…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →David Duncanson, licensee of the Crown and Anchor Hotel, pleaded guilty to a charge of having kept his licensed premises open for the sale of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WILLIAMS, alias Deeming, was before Mr. C. H. Nicholson, police magistrate, at half. past 9 o'clock, and reminded to Friday. The prisoner looked plate and this, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MARGARET FENWICKI, William Reilly, and Alfred Wilkins, found guilty by the jury on the previous day of stealing from the person, were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Apps, the Melbourne undertaker, made a clever burglary capture in Fitzroy to-day. THE POWDER EXPLOSION. The inquest on the powder explosion at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE trial was recently concluded at the Bucks Assizes, before Mr. Justice Lawrance, of Frederick Eggleton, Charles Raynor, and Walter Smith,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SENIOR CONSTABLE LEWIS, of Sydney, has been transferred to Newcastle, and will do duty at the lockup in the place of Senior-Constable Hazzard, who retired a few days…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →James Deane, a West Indian boardinghouse keeper, was charged, on remand from Wednesday, with having inflicted grievous bodily harm on John Ryan, a sailor, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RALPH SHERIDAN [?]ded guilty to using obscene language to Constable Kinnane on the 2nd inst in Regent-street, New Lambton. He was drunk, and threatened to knock the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GEORGE ANDERSON, 28, labourer, Gilbert Connors, 32, seaman, James M'Donald, 40, labourer, were charged with having been drunk on the previous evening in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Edward Oliver and Frank Dudley pleaded guilty to a charge laid by Henry Curran, assistant inspector of fisheries, of having on the 1st April taken fish by a net, for sale,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE police have arrested at Tallebudgera Frank Horrocks, the son of the Inspector of State Orphanages, on a charge of murdering Rudolph Wismuller, at Hemmant, on the…
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