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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,139 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 44 of 57
ABRAHAM BUTTERWORTH again pleaded guilty to drunkenness at New Lambton on the 26th instant; and it being the fourth offence during the past 12…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Between Friday night and Saturday morning last a mean theft took place at the Jesmond Public School. Berg Bros. are at present the contractors for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOHN GRIFFITHS, a stranger, and described as a sailor, was charged with being drunk and making use of obscene language. For drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JAMES CATRELL, 62, blacksmith, was ordered to pay 10s, or to go to gaol for 48 hours, for having been, drunk on Saturday afternoon in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →William Monte, a little boy was charged by Mary Rose O'Sullivan with having assaulted her on Monday, 25th September…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE trial of the accused in the Australian Banking Company case commenced to-day at the Central Criminal Court, before Acting Supreme Court Judge Backhouse. The court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JAMES MORGAN, a youth, residing at 24 Wyndham-road, Walworth, London, and described as a carman, was charged at the South Western Police…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT Rowley, England, Richard Plant, a well-known fishmonger, of Blackheath, was sentenced to three months' hard labour, and also ordered to pay…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Monday.—It is reported that Geoghogan, the murderer of Dr. Cronin, in Chicago, some years ago, in connection with the Clan-na-Gael organisation, is at present a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JAMES Mathews, 27, a clerk, was charged with having forged a cheque for the sum of £3 10s, purporting to be signed by E. M. Halligan, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BENJAMIN GRIFFIN, a coloured man, was charged at the Assize Court, with the murder of Frank Smith at Mungunia, near Bourke, on June 25 last. He pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM PEARCEY, 56, engineer, was fined 10s, or in default 48 hours' gaol for having been drunk in Scott-street on the previous evening. He paid the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →James Mitton and John Probert, two omnibus drivers, pleaded guilty, and were each fined 10s, and 2s 6d costs, for overloading their vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Phillip Newell, of Hobart, left his cab on the stand, and went home and shot his wife dead. He then shot himself in the neck, and died from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THOMAS WILLIAMS, suffering from derangement of mind, was brought up from the previous day and discharged. INDECENT LANGUAGE…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In the Criminal Court Patrick Casey was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for stealing spirits from the Imperial Hotel. Hy. Johns, an old offender, got three years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN elderly blacksmith, named Morris Turner, was fined 10s, with an alternative of 48 hours' lockup, for having used profane language on the wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BANKRUPT, a miner residing at Lambton, stated that he had never been insolvent previously, and that his financial difficulties had been caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BESSIE TUCKER, on remand, was charged before Mr. J. Giles, D.S.M., at the Central Police Court to-day, with having stolen various articles of jewellery, valued at £6,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Harry B. Barber, a clerk to the district council at Kapunda, was sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment to-day for embezzlement…
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