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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,139 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 57
AN attempted murder, followed by a suicide, has taken place at a boarding-house in Burry Hills, Sydney. Archibald M'Williams, 89 years of age and a bookmaker, after having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOR once in a way there was not a single case of drunkenness on the sheet. Riotous Behaviour. Peter Christerson, 24, and Frederick…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Circuit Court finished its sittings at Teamworth late on Thursday night and concluded the following calendar:— Joseph Hall, horse stealing, guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CHARLES HENRY, 50, a labourer, John Rice, 50, a labourer, John Collins, 35, a labourer, James Ellis, 22, a labourer, Colin Campbell,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FREDERICK COOPER age 29, labourer, and Edward Peters 40, a cook, were fined 10s, or in default 48 hours, for having been drunk on the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN WEST pleaded guilty to drunkenness in Morehead-street on Sunday, and was admonished and discharged, having been in the lockup…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE case against Horrocks for murdering Wismuller, was before the South Brisbane Court the whole day, and was remanded until Friday, when it is expected that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the Newtown Police Court to-day, Horatio Paget, 26, was charged with being concerned with others in breaking into the residence of John Moore, Station-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A RESPECTABLE LOOKING young man named William M'Pherson, or Slanden, was charged at the Water Police Court to-day, with having criminally assaulted Nellie Lovett…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PATRICK MURPHY, 40, a seaman, Roland Richard, 33, a labourer, and Sarah Mills, 52, were each fined 5s, with an alternative of 24 hours'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Wednesday.—In consequence of the seditious character of some of the articles published recently by the Commonwealth a newspaper published in the anarchist…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE only case before the Court was that of a seaman named Charles Collins, who pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent exposure on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. Mowbray, publisher, and Mr. Nicholl, editor, of the Commonweal were charged at Bow-street Police Court to-day with having published an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT is understood that Mr. Riggs, the local Government clerk of works, has received an intimation that the alterations and additions to the police promises in Hunter-street and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The new procedure under the Supreme Court Act just passed, which provides that all opposed motions in chambers shall be heard in open…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ANDREW FITZGERALD v. D. Cameron.—This was a case in which the plaintiff summoned defendant for passing upon him a cheque for £2 on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →HENRY LYONS, aged 64, was charged with being drunk on the 16th and 20th in Kemp-street, Wallsend; he was also charged with damaging a night-tub, the property of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—There never were perhaps in the annals of police court procedure such striking evidences of the unfitness of a police magistrate for his position as were evinced at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AFTER the candles were produced, and a faint glimmer of light thrown upon the proceedings, Dr. Perkin's cases were proceeded with as follow:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the Police Court, Parramatta, to-day William Naylor, orchardist, was fined £14 6s 2d, in default six months, for assaulting a neighbouring fruitgrower named John…
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