These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,139 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 55 of 57
IN this case, part heard on the previous day, Michael Ryan sued Dalgety and Co. for the recovery of £200 as compensation for injuries alleged to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IN the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Martin, J.P., a peculiar case of assault in connection with the Stockton Salvation Army was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WEDNESDAY was the day fixed for hearing appeals against assessments made by the Water and Sewerage Board, when Mr. Hart, the assessor, appeared, and announced that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FREDERICK HOWE, 23, builder, was fined 5s, or in default 24 hours in the lockup, for having been drunk and disorderly on board the ship Riverside…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →UPON the opening of the Court, at 10 o'clock, Mr. Shand referred to the case Ryan v. Dalgety, which had been decided on the previous day, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There is every reason to believe that the body found on the Muttaburra-road, is the victim of a murder. Several tomahawk wounds have been found on the left shoulder,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two seamen named James Goff and William Reilly were each fined 5S, with an option of 24 hours' lookup, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Excelsior Land and Building Co. v. William M'Miles, of Catherine Hill Bay, for freight on goods delivered from Fassiforn Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THIS was an action in which James Russell and Samuel Campbell, trading as James Russell and Co., iron-founders, engineers, and contractors,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IN a London Police Court recently Frederick Hampton, described as a fishmonger, was charged with having stolen and received a lady's silk…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Patrick Kelly, seaman, was charged with having assaulted Louis Davids, a cook, on board the ship Roxglove, on October 8th, when lying in a foreign port…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CAPTAIN HEARN, of the wool ship Genista, which is to sail for London to-morrow, lost a fine young sucking pig on Thursday. It was missed from the ship late in the day, and as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JAMES HOPE was charged with being drunk and making use of obscene language. For the first offence a fine of 5s and 5s 6d costs was imposed, and for the second offence a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ARCHIBALD MILLS, 40, seaman, was fined 10s, or in default 48 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk in Market-street on the previous evening. He pleaded not guilty,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WILLIAM HENRY HALL was charged with being a person of unsound mind. Sergeant Salter stated that ho found the man behaving strangely in Morehead-street…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE first Appeal Court against the assessment of the Hunter River District Water Supply and Sewerage Board was held in the Courthouse yesterday, before Mr. Mair,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN this action, which was adjourned from the previous day, James Russell and Samuel Campbell, trading as James Russell and Co., iron-founders, engineers, and contractors,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SEAMAN named Charles Lynn was fined 20s, with an option of seven days' gaol, for having been drunk and disorderly in Steel-street, Hamilton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS was an action in which Thomas Bibby and Arthur Tighe, trading as Bibby and Tighe, timber merchants, sued James Muirhead, of Carrington,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Saturday.—Admiral Fairfax is to be court martialled in connection with H.M.S. "Howe," which recently went ashore on an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →