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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,139 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 57
JAMES KENNEDY, a small boy, and two half-caste Chinese lads burgled to shop in Maryborough, and went on a bushranging expedition with a bull's-eye lantern and a revolver,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the Central Criminal Court, Darlinghurst, to-day, before Acting-Judge Murray, Thomas Walker, M.P. for Northumberland, was charged, on remand, with having, on the 4th…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A YOUNG married woman named Jane Meers was arrested on Saturday, on a charge of having stolen £13, a pair of gold earrings, and other articles, valued in all at £14 10s,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday.—Jager, the cashier from the Frankfort house of the Rothschilds, who absconded alter having embezzled some 1,000,000 marks, and who was arrested in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JAMES HANSON, age 42, and Michael Devine, 35, seamen, were called upon to pay 5s each, or go to gaol for 24 hours, for having been drunk in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A DARING burglary took place this morning at the office of Mayne, Nickless, and Co., Collins-street. Two burglars entered the place, tied up and gagged the watchman, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EARLY this morning it was discovered that burglars had paid a visit to the residence of Mr. Robert Johnson, the well known bookmaker, at Randwick, and had succeeded in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN BARKER, 30, a labourer Michael Divine, Reginald Thomas, 40, a minor; John Morris, 29, a seaman; James Wright, 61, a carpenter; and Sydney Barns, 27, a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AN application from Charles Lamotte for a transfer of his licence, Waratah Hotel, to Aaron Ball. In this case neither of the parties put in an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PURTIER change has been made in connection with the police magistracy at Waratah. When the Minister for Justice decided upon the removal of Mr. Perrott, P.M., it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—The body of a woman was to-day found in a ditch by the roadside near Althorpe, Lincolnshire. The remains were done up in a paper parcel. The head…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ANDY RUSSELL, an aboriginal; Pierce Power, 61, a baker; Charles Wright, 36, shoeblack; Ellen Morgan, 32; and Maggie Bullock, 30, an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JAMES JOHN was charged on remand with riding furiously to the danger of persons travelling on the public road at Lambton, on the 5th inst. Accused…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT the Central Criminal Court to-day, before Mr. Acting-Justice Murray, Henry Sheedy was placed upon his trial for the murder of his wife, Susan Agnes Sheedy, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the Quarter Sessions to-day Thomas Herrick, tor buglariously entering the premises of John Bowen, Castlereagh-street, was sentenced to 14 years' penal servitude,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THREE seamen named James Smith, Michael Divine, and Thomas Weeks, and a labourer named Charles Richardson were each fined 5s, with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The man who murdered the Bishop of Foligno in a railway carriage, between Florence and Foligno, has been arrested, and has confessed his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →EVER since the cold weather set in the large Police Court-room of this city has been as cold as a dungeon, and the unfortunate solicitors, journalists, police, and others whose business…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GEORGE HICKINBOTHAM was charged at the Water Police Court to-day, before Mr. Smithers, D.S.M, with deserting his wife and child at Newcastle. The case was not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM GLOVER, a labourer, and Maurice Jackson, a miner, were charged with travelling from Sydney to Newcastle by the steamer Sydney…
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