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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,071 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 43 of 54
THIS case, which has occupied the attention of the Court since Friday, was concluded by the parties coming to a settlement. It was an action under…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Only one case was heard by the Police Magistrate at the Police Court yesterday. Alex. Jones sued David Mitchell, claiming £3 16s 4d for goods…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT the Central Criminal Court this afternoon Judge Foster sentenced prisoners as follows: James Stephen King, who pleaded guilty to two charges—one of bigamy and the other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CHABLOTTE M'DONALD, who was arrested by Police-constable Brown at West Wallsend on the previous day on the charge of being drunk and incapable, pleaded guilty to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FAYLE v. J. Gray and wife, claiming £4 for goods supplied. Defendant showed receipts for payment, when the case was struck out, and 10s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →INFORMATION was received in the city last evening of the death of Constable Wright, of the mounted police. The deceased was appointed to Newcastle nearly four years ago,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THOMAS CLEARY, draper; Thomas Gillespie, painter; and Charles Jensen, seaman, were fined in sums ranging from 5s to 10s, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The licenses of the following hotels were renewed, there being no police objections:—Edward Blackburn, Merewether Hotel, Merewether;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the Circuit Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Windeyer, John Bourke, charged with being on the premises of Lewis Bros., in the possession of instruments, with intent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JOHN RICHARDS, 29, a half-caste Hindoo, whose military appearance proved that he had been drilled, was charged, on remand, with having on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MALCOLM BAIRD, a young man, was charged with injuring a plant in the Wallsend Park on Sunday, the 1st October. It appears that almost…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Inspector-General of Police has just received from Angledool information of a murder. It seems that the supposed murder was committee in an old cottage on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOSEPH STOLLERY, 53, hotelkeeper, was charged with having on that morning, on the city railway station, assaulted William Davis. Sergeant Hickey deposed that at about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN GARVEY, a young man, appeared at the Central Criminal Court to-day before Mr. Justice Foster on a charge of breaking and entering the dwelling-house of George Henry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SERGEANT SALTER appeared to prosecute in three cases of parents having neglected to send their children to school at New Lambton during the half-year ending in June last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arthur Osbond and Charles Hare, two youths, pleaded guilty to a charge of having bathed at Wickham on September 29th, within view of the public…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the Central Criminal Court to-day Paul Stanz II, the German who was yesterday found guilty of the manslaughter of Carl Reimann, was brought up for sentence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A taste for floriculture might seem to indicate an elevated and enlightened state of mind in which a tendency to meanness and wrongdoing would…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →S. COULTER, summoned by Constable Gibson, of Catherine Hill Bay, for indecent exposure in a public place, was sentenced to be imprisoned till the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE charge sheet at the Police Court yesterday morning consisted of three cases only, a most unusual circumstance for a Monday, when as a rule the dock is full of prisoners…
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