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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,139 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 53 of 57
Bankrupt stated that he had been insolvent five years previously. His present failure had been caused by slackness of work and pressure of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A DRAPER, named George Moss was brought from Melbourne in custody last evening on a charge of having on the 8th February last stolen £15 and to blankets, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →EDWARD GRIFFITHS, charged with being drunk and disorderly in Nelson-street, was discharged with a caution. SMALL DEBTS…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHARLES WIGGS was charged with giving Julia Wiggs, his wife, reasonable apprehension of danger to her person, thus compelling her to leave his house on Nov. 23rd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN old woman, named Ann Barratt, was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness. Disobeying a Summons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE understand that the lady whose purse recently was taken from her lap and incontinently swallowed by the elephant in the Zoo has instructed her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ST. PETERSBURG, Saturday.—Twenty-four persons who were concerned in the cholera riots which took place at Saratoff when the hospitals were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SEAMAN named Fredrick J. Miller was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours lookup, for drunkenness. Alleged Stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Evan James was charged that he did at Newcastle on the 2nd of May last steal the sum of £24 4s, the money of J. Russell and another…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JOHN ASHOROFT alias John Welsley was charged with breaking into a dwelling at Teralba on the 1st December, and stealing a silver watch, value…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jacob Dent, of Lambton Heights, applied for a transfer of his license to William Rutherford, of Lambton, which was granted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ZACHARIAH STANBOROUGH, 19, labourer, and Alfred Edwards, 38, master mariner, were each fined 10s, or in default 48 hours, for having been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thomas Andrew Robinson, age 28, was charged with having, at Raymond Terrace, on the 17th of September last, stolen horse, saddle, and bridle,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A SEAMAN, named Alexander Kerr and a labourer named George Anderson were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Something like three months ago attention was called to the disgracefully leaking condition of the roof of the constable's quarters at Stockton…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE only business before time Court was an unusual array of small debts, which were dealt with as follows— Richard Thomas v. William Taylor,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IMMEDIATELY the Judge took his seat Dr. V. E. Ludlow was sworn as a justict of the peace…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JOHN MAKIN and Sarah Makin, on remand were charged at the Central Police Court to-day on suspicion of having caused the death of the illegitimate child of Amber Murray;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM PARK, 34, mason, 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 7 →Elizabeth Lock, a married woman, and her son, William Lock, surrendered to their bail, and were charged with having, at Islington on the 14th…
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