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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,139 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 57
THE Treasury officers are collecting a series of statistical returns for the use of the Colonial Treasurer (Mr. See) in connection with a scheme he has in view for vesting in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Court resumed at 10 o'clock, a large number of spectators having assembled to hear the verdict in the slander case. In summing up, his Honor said the case…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ISAAC HUTCHINSON and John Ward, miners, were charged with behaving in a riotous manner in Howe-street on the 10th instant,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN elderly minor, named Thomas Lambert, was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness. Child Desertion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS was an action, part heard on the previous day, in which William David Bedlington, mining manager, sued Morgan Jones, manager of the Northern Coal Company, to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Four men, named Walter Rouse, James Blair, Charles Watson, and Richard Reynolds, were at the Water Police Court yesterday morning remanded until…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SEAMAN named Joseph Hegarty was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness. Language…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Concerning the murder of two Europeans by natives at West KimberleyâRobert Allen, a New Zealander, and Thomas Henry, a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THIS was a case (part heard on the previous day) in which George William Webb, plumber, sued Frederick Ash and Company, Limited, to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BARTHOLOMEW O'CONNOR, 38, a tailor, Elizabeth Fairbank, 25, William Cavanagh, 45, a seaman, and Maurice Regan were fined the usual sums,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ELIZABETH MORGAN, 34, and Benjamin Lee, 19, a carpenter, were fined 10s and 5s respectively, with the usual alternatives, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Cloncurry police advise that the border near Cameoweal awarms with hundreds of Chinese, who refuse to go back and challenge ledge the police to shoot them. Seven…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the Central Police Court to-day Richard Cutler, 58, was committed for trial at the Central criminal Court for assaulting Clara May day, aged 11. Bail was allowed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALBERT OAKLEY, 21, a labourer; Andrew Simpson, 34, a seaman; John Brennan, 27, a fireman; Maurice Fitzgerald, 34, a seaman; and John…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SOME time ago Sampson Cornwell, a settler at Beulah, in the Mallee country, died suddenly and was buried. Since then suspicion has been excited by the conduct of his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Government has given instructions to the Wallangarra police to uncertain of all passengers whether they were aboard the Oroya, and all such will be isolated. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PARIS Thursday.—The French anarchist leader, Ravachol, who was recently sentenced to penal servitude for life for dynamite outrages, has been tried at St. Etienne…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MICHAEL BARRY, 34, seaman, Alex. Gallagher, 18, blacksmith, and James Hill, 45, miner, were each fined 5s, or in default 24 hours' imprisonment,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A SECOND series of burglaries took place during the small hours of yesterday morning in the city and Waratah. In March last several during robberies took place in the city,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A DELIBERATE attempt at suicide occurred at Hay, a domestic servant named Gwendoline Williams, in the employment of A. Gartakover, having cut her throat. The…
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