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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,139 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 57
LONDON, Saturday.—Two drivers belonging to the 13th Company Army Service Corps, stationed at Portsmouth, were tried by court martial on a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Edward M'Nalty was charged at the Police Court to-day with assaulting Constable Walsh while the latter was rescuing a young girl of 10 named Florence Page, whom two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SQUIRE LIVERSACE, charged with being drunk in Nelson-street, was fined 5s, and for obscene language, a further fine of 10s was imposed.—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A LABOURER named Allan Berry was charged with stealing a pair of blankets, three coats, four shirts, a vest, and other articles, valued in all at £2,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YESTERDAY forenoon a gentleman named Morton reported to the police that his Gladstone bag had been stolen from the railway station the previous evening while an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALLAN BERRY, a wharf labourer, was charged, on remand from the previous day, with having stolen a swag containing a pair of blankets, 4s 11d in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Thomas Sault, a miner, was charged by his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Sault, with having assaulted her at the Junction on the 19th instant. There…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Monday.—Lord Herschell, Lord High Chancellor, has appointed the secretary of the Carpenters' Union to be a magistrate at Liverpool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SOLOMON HANDCOCK, an old offender pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife, Agnes Handcock, at Lambton, on the 22nd inst. The accused has only just…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MINNIE PEARCE, aged 19, a hailing from Wooloomooloo originally,' but recently from Maitland Gaol, pleaded guilty to drunkenness and disorderly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JAMES TAYLOR, 39, labourer, was fined the usual 5s, or in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk in Hunter-street on the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ANTONIO REILLY, 32, a labourer Maggie Bullock, an aboriginal and John Kelly, 35, a seaman, were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ELLEN M'DOUGALL, a distressed and apparently unfortunate female, who has been seen about the outskirts of the town for the past couple of days, was taken from the pickshop…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A LABOURER named John Wilson was fined 20s, with an option of seven days' goal, for having travelled from Sydney to Newcastle by the steamer Newcastle without paying his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A NUMBER of burglaries took place last night, the city being full of thieves from other colonies. In one place 6400 in cash and £200 worth of jewellery were stolen. One batch of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A LABOURER named Edward Martin pleaded guilty to a charge of having wilfully broken a number of glasses valued at 15s, the property of Samuel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A raid was made on Saturday morning by the police on Clarence Shade's, when a man named Thomas Goldsmith was found running la totalisator on the Melbourne races. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The usual Saturday proceedings commenced early yesterday afternoon, when a serious disturbance occurred at South Broken Hill, about 4 o'clock a small body of police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. BARNETT, the new police magistrate had a busy time at the Police Court to-day; 45 cases being called. They comprised "drunks," riotous behaviour, indecent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GEORGE MIDDLETON, aged 26, miner, John Lambs, 18, seaman, and Percival Charters, 38, seaman, were each called on to pay the sum of 5s, or go to gaol…
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