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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,139 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 57
AT the Central Police Court this morning Thomas Walker, M.P. for Northumberland, on remand and on bail, appeared to answer the charge of maliciously shooting at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Edwin Joseph Pepper, of Tighe's Hill, applied to the Court to have the license of James Hughes, of the Criterion Hotel, Carrington,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE public examination of James Michael Yates, boatbuilder, of Stockton (bankrupt), took place in the court room at 11 o'clock yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CHARLES WEIGHT, 35, —Shoeblack, Benjamin Fitsgerald, 35 a labourer, John Thomas, 42, a seaman, and Andrew Anderson, 45, a seaman, were fined in sums…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THOMAS GIBSON, 38, seaman, Colin C. M'Lachlin, 50, mariner, Barney Mills, 47, seaman, Teely Bullock, aboriginal, were each fined 5s, with an option of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →EDWARD NOLAN, 40, labourer; and Charles Seaty, 26, labourer, were fined 10s, or 48 hours for having been drunk in Hunter-street on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT is understood that Mr. J. R. Rodgers has secured the contract for the additious and improvements to the police premises in Hunter-street at £1742, and that the work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT is understood that Mr. O. N. O'Neill, who has occupied the position of Police Magistrate at Hillston for a number of years, will succeed Mr. R. I. Perrott,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wm. Coulthard, Wm. O'Brien, and Oliver Hennings, three asterious criminals and garrotters, were sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two firemen named Martin and John Brennan, were each fined 5s, with an alternative of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ROBERT RUSSELL, 23, and Patrick Mulling, 23, appeared on remand, before Mr. C. Delahery, S.M., at the Central police Court to-day, a charged with having committed the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM CAMPBELL, a youth, was charged that he, being hanger on at the South Wallsend Colliery, Cardiff, did on April 29th neglect to carry out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the Lambton Police Court yesterday Mr. J. A. Gorrick, solicitor, was defending a case of alleged obscene language, and had occasion to call a witness named Elijah…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two little girls, aged 8 and 10, daughters of Mr. Darby, clerk in the Forestry Department, and living at Echunga, were stopped on Monday by a dark man, who behaved indecently…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alfred Kilham, a blacksmith, was charged at the Police Court to-day with assaulting Beatrice Hancock, under 16. The child went to his house with a message, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GEORGE AYRES, 30, seaman, Francis M'Carthy, 24, seaman, and John Dick, 35, labourer, were each fined 5s, or in default 24 hours' gaol, for having…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday.—A telegram from New York gives particulars of a sensational tragedy in court. A man who was accused of having outraged a girl was being tried for the crime,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE three-masted fore-and-aft schooner Thistle, which put into port on Tuesday evening from the Solomon Islands bound to Sydney, was granted pratique yesterday. She…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two labourers named Henry Coult-hard and Patrick Callon and four seamen named Nesbitt, Alexander Lowe, John Thomas, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE June sittings of the District Court which were adjourned from the 17th ult. will be continued by Judge Wilkinson to-day. Following are the remaining cases:—…
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