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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,071 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 54
OSCAR PHILLIPS, 20, Belgian seaman, and George Rielly, 27, an Irish compositor, were each called on to pay 5s, or suffer 24 hours' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JAMES TURNER, 17 years of age, but evidently not possessed of his full faculties, and John William Cummings, 9 years of age, were charged…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CHARLES CAMPBELL, labourer, was fined 10s, with an option of 48 hours' lockup, for drunkenness. Riotous Behaviour…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GEORGE ANDERSON, labourer, was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness; and £2, or 14 days' gaol, for having used…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MRS. T. JEFFRIES was charged on remand with using indecent language to John Henderson, at Dudley, on the 27th October last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE case of Edwin Hubert Glasson, convicted of and sentenced to death at Bathurst for the murder of Mr. Phillips and Miss Cavanagh, at the City Bank, Carcoar, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The body of a man named Peter Brown was found murdered in the yard of an hotel at Barcaldine. John Morley has been arrested on suspicion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE ease against Ernest Broad, charged with the misappropriation of a cheque for £2650, was proceeded with at the Water Police Court this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MICHAEL CALL and John Thomson, seamen, were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness; and the latter was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE following prisoners were sentenced at the Quarter Sessions this morning by Judge Murray:—Maurice Thomas Sleeman, stealing in a dwelling, 12 months' hard labour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A STRANGE story come from Cincinnati. An extraordinary punishment, suggestive of the rack and the thumb screw, is reported so have been…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →No small sensation has been caused at Hampton Court Palace by the repeated assertions that ghostly visitants have lately been seen in some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →JOHN MURRAY, plasterer, and James Fraser, labourer, were fined 10s and 5s respectively, with the usual alternatives, for drunkenness, and the latter was ordered to pay 20s, or…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thomas Ferry has died of consumption and acute bronchitis in the Gladstone Gaol, to which he was committed for seven days as having no visible means of support. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN RIELEY, 28, seaman, for having been drunk and disorderly after midnight in Hunter-street, was ordered to pay 10s, or suffer 48 hours in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ELIZABETH HUDSON, from Minmi, was charged with stealing a jacket, the property of Miss Lever, of Wallsend, from the Great Northern Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ELLEN JAMES was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lookup, for drunkenness, and was ordered to pay 20s, or serve 7 days' gaol, for having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A YOUNG man named John Simes was arraigned at the Quarter Sessions to-day, on a charge of breaking and entering, on July 9, the dwelling-house of Thomas Thomson…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JESSIE JAMES, aged 19, one of the unfortunate class, for have been drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street on the previous evening was ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MRS. S. A. GILLONS v. Mrs. Mary Wilson, claiming 15s 7d for goods supplied; verdict for plaintiff. Same v. Benjamin Shakespeare,…
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