The Stranding of H.M.S. Howe. Cost of the Court-martial
LONDON, Wednesday.—A statement just published shows that the court-martial before which Vice-Admiral Fairfax was tried in connection with…
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Courts & crime, 1893
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Stockton. the Police Barracks
During the last few days plumbers have been at work repairing the roof of the police barracks. This may do a gool deal towards making these quarters more comfortable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court Friday, January 20. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Ashor and Thorn, Js.P.) A Solitary
THOMAS DIXON, 42, a Scotch seamen, was asked to pay 5s, or go to the lockup for 24 hours, for drunkenness in Cowper-street, Carrington, on the previous evening…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Summons Court. Breach of the Bylaws
For allowing four horses to stray in the municipality of Stockton, William Hestelow was fined £1, and 2s 6d costs. For allowing one horse to stray, Lewis Jones was fined 10s,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Mother and Her Sons. Circus Proprietors in Court. SYDNEY
IN Chambers to-day an application was made on behalf of Lydia Knights (formerly Warren) for an order to make absolute a rule nisi for a writ of habeas corpus directed to…
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A FOREIGNERS named Albert Anderson was arrested by Constable King yesterday morning, on a charge of stealing from the dwelling of Conrad Blattman a tablecloth, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Court Saturday, January 21. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunkenness
AN elderly miner named David Thomas was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness, and was ordered to pay 20s, or to serve 7 days'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend and Plattsburg Police Court. Monday, January 23. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.M., and Mr. T. Fryar, J.p.) Assault
DAVID SMITH was charged with assaulting Mrs. Gillespie. Sergeant Grennan deposed that about 10.40 o'clock on Sunday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Unionism and the Police Court. The Strike in the Boot Trade. SYDNEY
IN connection with the difficulty at Messrs. Enoch Taylor and Co.'s boot factory, Botany, information was to-day laid at the Water Police Court against the secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court Monday, January 23. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Christie, J.P.) Drunkenness
THREE seamen named Archibald Campbell, William F. Sleany, and John Jones, and a miner named Alexander Hall, were fined in sums…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stockton Council. Annual Revision Court
A SPECIAL meeting of the above council woo held last night for the purpose of revising the municipal list for the ensuing year in accordance with the directions of the Municipalities…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, January 24. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) No Ticket
A LABOURER named Henry M'Lean was fined 20s, with the option of seven days' gaol, for having travelled from Sydney to Newcastle by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Release of a Dynamitard. After Five Years in Gaol
LONDON, Monday.—Thomas Callan, on Irish-American dynamitard, who was sentenced in February, 1888, to 15 years' imprisonment for taking…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, January 24. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Alleged Threatening Language
MARTHA DAVIES was charged with using threatening language to Isabella Hall at Now Lambton, on the 19th. inst…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Returns
THE following figures will show the work that was done by the police in the city during the last year :—1768 arrests were made, and the accused persons were brought up at the…
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On Tuesday evening the council held an open court for the revision of the municipal list. The same aldermen were present…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, January 25. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Martin, J.P.) Drunkenness
JEREMIAH NEVIN, age 32, a seaman, and Ellen Cooper, a married woman, were each fined the usual 5s, or in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Murder in Morocco. Reparation Granted by the Sultan
LONDON, Tuesday.—The Sultan of Morocco having satisfied the claims made by her Majesty's Government for reparation for the murder of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Summons Court. Breaches of the Bylaws
Thomas Brett and .Patrick Naylon, 'bus drivers, pleaded guilty to charges of having overloaded their vehicles, and as it was their first offence, they…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Summons Court. Alleged Stealing
A young woman named Esther Doohan was charged, on information laid by Esther Parker, with having stolen a magpie, valued at £3, at Burwood, on the 9th inst…
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