New Police Boats
THE water police have at last got their new boats, and it is needless to state that from Senior sergeant Dick to the cook the force are highly elated. Mr. Yates, of Stockton,…
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Courts & crime, 1892
1,139 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 57
Coronial Court Witnesses
THE determination of the Minister for Justice to pay jurors serving at coronial courts at the same rate as those who are required to attend the Supreme and other…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, May 5. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Martin, J.p.) a Solitary
GEORGE SPENCER, 50, a seaman, was the only drunk in the dock, and he was fined the usual 5s, or in default 48 hours. Having no money he elected…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend and Plattsburg Police Court. Small Debts Court. Thursday, May 5, (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.) Slander Case. Joseph Davies v. William M'beath
MR. SPARKE appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Gorrick for the defendant, but prior to the case being heard, Mr. Gorrick threw up the case, and Mr. Gorrick threw…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Licensing Court. Thursday, May 5Th. Breach of the Act
Hugh Cameron, licensee of the Star Inn, Hunter-street, was charged with having kept his place open for the sale of liquor on Sunday, the 24th…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bankruptcy Court. Thursday, May 5Th. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., the Registrar.) Public Examination
THE public examination of Edward Scott, sen., livery stable keeper, bankrupt, was held in the Court-room yesterday. A previous meeting under…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wallsend and Plattsburg Police Court. Thursday, May 5, (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)
THOMAS HYDE, hailing from near Minmi, was charged with assaulting and abusing his wife. Mr. Cronin appeared for the complainant,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Committed for Trial. Charged With Assaulting a Little Girl. SYDNEY
WILLIAM PARKER, a young man, was charged at the Water Police Court to-day with having criminally assaulted a little girl, aged 11 years. The evidence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, May 6. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Thorn and Asher, Js.P.) Drunks
CHARLES CAMPBELL, 35, a labourer; Thomas Cleary, 50, a draper; and Ellen Sullivan, 45 a cook, were fined in sums ranging from 5s to 20s, with the usual alternatives, for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court Saturday, May 7. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Language
A WELL KNOWN character named William Edwards was fined £2, with an option of a month's goal, for having used obscene language in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assault by a Chinaman at Tamworth
A LARGE crowd of Mongol-bred fellow-townsmen together with a goodly contingent of the local unemployed recently assembled at the Police Court, Tamworth, to hear a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alleged Attempted Murder. a Brutal Husband. SYDNEY
WHAT is alleged to be a daring attempt to commit a brutal murder took place this afternoon in the neighbourhood of Crown-street. A woman named Susan Sheehy,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, May 9. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Martin and Christie, J.s.P.) Drunks
FOUR seamen, named Charles Rowlings, Patrick M'Kechnie, William Merser, and James Bird, were fined in sums ranging from 5s to 10s, with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Larkin in Court. He Appears in Prison Dress And Refuses to Give Incriminating Evidence. MELBOURNE
LARKIN, the notorious building society defaulter, who is now undergoing a sentence of who is now undergoing a sentence of in prison dress this morning to give evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Attempted Wife Murder in Sydney
MENTION of the following appeared in our telegraphic columns of yesterday; the full particulars, however, were received too late for publication. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, May 10. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Three Cases
Two labourers named George Evans and Patrick M'Grath were each fined 59, with the usual alternatives, for drunkenness; and a coaltrimmer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Improvements to Police Premises
IN view of the proposed alterations and improvements to the police barracks in Watt-street and the offices and lookup in Hunter-street, it is more than probable that the local…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, May 10. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) New Lambton Appeals
THE police again presented a clean sheet, and the only business transacted was the confirmation of the appeals as dealt with by the New Lambton Borough Council on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CABLEGRAMS. The Russian Chief of Police Poisoned. His Condition Desperate
LONDON, Monday.—Intelligence has been received from St. Petersburg that Lieutenant-General Greaser, Governor of the City and head of the police, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Revision Court. Tuesday, May 10. (Before Mr. Thorn, J.P.)
A MAGISTERIAL sitting for the revision of the electoral roll for 1892-93 was held in the occasional Police Court at noon yesterday. The…
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