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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,139 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 57 of 57
THE following billiard licenses were renewed, the police having no objection:—Grace G.. Buchanan, Criterion: Alex. Watt, Great…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gordon Armstrong, age 23, a drover, was summoned by Louisa Widgery, and charged with neglecting to contribute to the support of her female child, of which he was the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MINNIE PEARCE, 18, a well-known character, was the only case of drunkenness before the Court, and she was called on to pay 5s, or go to goal for 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A FITTER named Charles Williams was, arrested on Saturday on a charge of assaulting Constable Hanney, and upon being searched at the lockup a watch and chain…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GEORGE CAMERON, alisas Schofield, a doubtful looking character, pleaded guilty to stealing flowers and plants from the Municipal Recreation Reserve. From evidence given by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A MARRIED woman named Maggie Ferguson was fined 5s with an option of 24 hours' lockup for drunikenness. Drunk and Disorderly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON Boxing Day some miscreant took advantage of, the absence of Alderman O'Toole, manager, of the Co-operative Store Company at Stockton, with the whole of his family, at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—M. Andrieux, who was recently Prefect of Police in France, fears that he will be arrested in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CHARLES HENRY, 50, wharf labourer; John Dyor, 36, engineer; John Moruna, 29, seaman; and Isabella Law, were each fined 5s, with an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SEAMAN named Charles. Lynn and a labourer named George Foresight were fined 5s and 10s respectively, with the usual alternatives for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE water police were busily engaged this morning dragging in the vicinity of South Reef, where the yacht Iolanthe capsized with fatal results on Boxing Day. Five…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—In consequence of the attempt made on Christmas Eve to wreck the offices of the Chief Secretary for Ireland by dynamite, the number…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANDREW ELDER, 52, seaman; Oscar Gurnonson, 47 a Norwegian sailor and John Jeffries, 26, miner, were each fined 5s, or in default 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GEORGE BLAKE, charged with being drunk in Nelson-street, Plattsburg was cautioned and discharged. ALLEGED DISORDERLY CONDUCT…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HENRY FROST, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, Islington, applied for permission to establish a booth on the steamers' wharf on the 2nd proximo,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is only fair to Mr. Martin Brennan, the Inspector of Police in Newcastle, to state that he denies that on Boxing Day, when Alderman O'Toole's house, was broken into and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →OLIVER NORTHCROFT was charged on remand at the Central Police Court to-day with having assaulted a little girl named Elsie Brown. The evidence was heard with closed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GEORGE REID and Samuel Knight pleaded guilty to placing an obstruction on the public thoroughfare at New Lambton to the danger of persons passing on the 21st inst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the information of Inspector T. Curley, of Hamilton, the following people were fined 5s and 2s 6d costs:—Neil M'Crinnon, two horses straying, in Chaucer-street: Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JAMES WALLACE, 53, labourer, and James Walton, 34, seaman, were fined the usual 5s; or in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk in Hunter and Wolfe…
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