Poisoned in Gaol
THE inquest relative to the death of JAMES CHARLESWORTH, a prisoner at Parramatta gaol, has disclosed a lamentable state of affairs, both with regard to the insanitary…
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Courts & crime, 1892
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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, February 22. (Before Mr. R. I. Porrott, P.M.)
MAURICE EDMUND FITZGERALD, a seaman, was charged with making use of obscene and indecent language, and also with assaulting Constable Bowen, at Swansea, on the 19th…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, February 22. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Martin, and Christie, Js.P.) Drunks
JOHN RITCHIE, 87, a miner, George Carbeg, 28, a seaman, Edward Lormer, 60, a seaman, Thomas Craig, 45, a laborer, John Murphy, 28, a miner, and Emerson Dixon, 35, a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murder and Attempted Suicide. Cuts his Wife's Throat, and then his own. HOBART
A TERRIBLE murder was committed yesterday at Cambridge, a few miles from the Hobart railway, by a labourer named Henry Gordon, who in a fit of jealousy cut the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambton Police Court Tuesday, February 23. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Drunkenness and Obscenity
SOLOMON HANCOCK was charged, on arrest, with being drunk and using obscene language in Morehead-street. Sergeant Salter informed the Bench that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, February 23. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Weir, J.P.) Drunk
JAMES WILMOTT, 30, a miner, was fined 5s with an option of 24 hours' look up, for drunkenness. Withdrawn…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—A man named Schweiger, who was previously a clerk in the Deutsche Bank, Berlin, and who absconded and was arrested at New York, has…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—A state trial, which has been watched with intense interest throughout Bulgaria, has just been concluded at Sofia. Madame Karoveloff and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CABLEGRAMS. Horrible Murder. a Male and Female Fiend
BERLIN, Wednesday.—A man and woman have been arrested at Magdeburg on charges of murdering and outraging servant girls in the woods. The circumstances are similar to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Light Fine. Sentenced to 30 Minutes' Gaol. SYDNEY
ARTHUR WHYMAN, 38, mining agent, was arraigned at the Water Police Court to-day, charged with having attempted to commit suicide. Constable John Walker was the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unionists and Non-unionists An Aggravated Assault. SYDNEY
BEFORE Captain Fisher, S.M, at the Water Police Court to-day, Patrick Murphy, 24, storeman, was charged with having beaten David Hinchy, with intent to prevent him…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, February 25. (Before Messrs. R. I. Perrott, P.M., and Thos. Fryar, J.P.)
NOAH CARTWRIGHT pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and was fined £1, or seven days in Maitland Gaol. John Hedge, hotelkeeper at Teralba,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, February 25. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Martin, J.p.) a Clean Sheet
THE Only case on the charge sheet was that of an elderly woman, named Lena Lewis, who was brought up for drunkenness…
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A little lad named Charles Parker sued another boy named George Scott for having assaulted him on the 22nd inst. Complainant stated that on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lambton Police Court Friday, February 26. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrot, P.m.) Obscenity
MARY CANNON, an old offender, pleaded guilty to using obscene language within hearing of persons passing on the Newcastle-road at New Lambton on the 22nd inst., and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, February 26. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Thorn, J.P.) D. and D.
MARY ROOXE, 32, was fined 20s, with an option of seven days' gaol, for having been drunk and disorderly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AUSTRALIAN M., L., AND G. CO Smith, Finlayson, and Miller Sentenced to Seven Years. SYDNEY
FRANK JAMES SMITH, George James Finlayson, and Augustus Sydney Miller, who were found guilty yesterday on a charge of conspiracy, were sentenced to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Percy Smairl Brought to Book. Sentenced to Five Years. SYDNEY
WILLIAM PERCY SMAIRL, convicted on February 12 on a charge of having on June 17, 1889, embezzled the sum of £1011 7s 4d. the property of the Imperial Land, Building,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian News. New South Wales. Murder of an Aboriginal
AN aboriginal named Roberts has been murdered by another blackfellow named M'Kenzie, at Kinibree, one of Crosse and Fetherstonhaugh's out-stations. A…
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LONDON, Saturday.—Sentence of death has been passed on Louis Anastsy, who was convicted of the murder of the Baroness Dellard, mother of the Chief of Department in…
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