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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,071 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 54
BANKRUTT, who was represented by Mr. Dart, said he had never been insolvent previously. He was a miner, and his difficulties had been caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →After the adjournment at the inquest Archer was conveyed to the Water Police Court, and formally remanded until Tuesday next to the Coroner's Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BETWEEN 7 and 8 o'clock one evening recently, Christopher Littlejohn, a prisoner undergoing a life sentence for arson in the Hobart Gael, managed to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A SEAMAN named Joseph Grant was fined 5s, with an option of 21 hours' lockup, for drunkenness. The Recent Stabbing Affray…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the Tamworth Circuit Court to-day William Anderson was convicted of sheep stealing and sentenced to three years' hard labor in Tamworth Goal. Fredk. Ward, 17…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SPECIAL meeting of this council was held on Thursday night for the purpose of considering in friendly appeal, the appeals sent in against the assessments made for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THREE seamen named Robert Burbank, Henry Hore, and John Gilanderson, and an elderly woman named Mary Aun Kinnear, were fined in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT the civil sittings of the Tamworth Circuit Court yesterday, Arthur Missen sued George Baker for £2000 damages for the wrongful conversion of 7850 sheep. After a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOUR seamen named John Neilson, Benjamin. Cooper, John Tilgandson, and Robert Hart, and a miner named James Oldham, were fined in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A LABOURER named John Stone and a married woman named Jane Wallace were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JOHN MURPHY pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly at Charlestown on the 14th instant, and was fined 5s, in default three days in Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Circuit Court was opened at Armidale to-day before Mr. Justice Stephen. William Strang, an aboriginal, charged with the murder of William Sullivan, another…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the Coroner's Court this morning the inquest relative to the death of the woman Emma Harrison was resumed. Geo. Archer was present in court, charged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A youth named Henry Nicholson sued a lad named William Tait on a charge of assault. Mr. Readett appeared for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EDWARD BURN was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having assaulted Elizabeth Cook. A constable stated that about 1 o' clock this morning he heard cries…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two seamen, named Charles Henry and Peter Martindale, were each fined 10s, with an option of 48 hours' lockup, for having been drunk and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Albury police this morning received details of the alleged attempted murder at Walla Walla, 30 miles from Albury. It transpires that yesterday morning two men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JAMES MARSLAND, who pleaded guilty at the Sessions on Tuesday to a charge of having harboured ex-bank manager Bennett, was brought up before Judge Backhouse this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM JONES, 28, labourer, was fined 10s, or, in default, 48 hours in the lockup, for having been drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street West…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ROBERT PRICE, of Plattsburg, miner, was examined, Mr. T. Cronin appearing for him. Bankrupt attributed his bankruptcy to slackness in work, and…
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