Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, December 6. (Before Messrs. Martin and Fryar, Js.P.) Drunkenness
JOHN M'LANE, seaman, was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lookup, for drunkenness. Assault…
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Courts & crime, 1893
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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, December 6. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Small Debts
PROPRIETORS of Newcastle Morning Herald v. S. O. Greenland, claiming £2 18s, balance of account owing for advertising.—Verdict for plaintiffs,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court Thursday, December 7. (Before Messrs. Mair, and Martin J.P.) Assault
EZEKIEL BASTOW, miner, was charged on remand, with assaulting Annie Bastow. Accused pleaded guilty, and was bound over, self in £10, with one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Mining Dispute. Before the Equity Court. Sydney
IN the Equity Court to-day, before the Chief Judge, the hearing at the matter of Townsend v. Melbourne was commenced. John Townsend applied for a decree that he was the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wallsend Small Debts Court. Thursday, December 7. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.M.)
MRS. EMMA FIRKIN v. R. Stubbs; verdict for £4 13s 9d. John Truscott v. W. G. Hughes, bankrupt. The Borough of Wallsend obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Broken Hill Sensation. a Leper Denounced by a Travelling Medicine Man. The Police on the Alert. Broken Hill
DURING the past week or so an itinerant pill-vendor, calling himself Dr. Potts, the dental king, has been in Broken Hill extracting teeth and selling patent medicines. On…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court Friday, December 8. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Thorn, J.P.) Stealing a Vest
CHARLES BLEWEYT, 27, an English seaman, was charged with having on the previous afternoon stolen a vest valued at 4s the property of Roberts Ingall…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murder on the High Seas
JOSE ALPHONSE BURBOSA, a Portuguese, was arrested on the arrival of the Royal Mail steamer Magdalena, at Southampton, recently, and charged…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Hampton Court Ghosts
BETWEEN 9 and 10 o'clock one night recently two frail figures in white. raiment suddenly 'appeared in the public highway, opposite the principal…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Suicide at a Court-martial
A TRAGIC incident is described by the Chronicle's St, leterburg correspondent dent as having [?]ccured at Warsaw, on the occasion if the trial of a young…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Swansea Police Court. Wednesday, December 6. (Before Messrs. Henry Gordon, P.M., and R. F. Talbot, J.p.) Fishery Cases
FISHERIS Inspector Smithers prosecuted William Wakeham and James Brown for fishing in the closed waters of Lake Macquarie. Accused were defended by Mr. R…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Victoria. Melbourne, Friday. Suicide in a Police Cell
A man named John Leslie, who was locked up in a cell at the South Melbourne Police Court on a charge of attempted suicide, cut his throat with a knife he had secreted and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cooranbong Police Court. Thursday, December 7. (Before Mr. Henry Gordon, P.M., and Mr. T. Russell, J.P. Breaches of Crown Lands Act
WILLIAM STRUDWICK, prosecuted by Forrester Martin for a breach of the Crown Lands Act. pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s, and 6s 6d costs, of 4S hours in the Iockup. The fine…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Summons Court. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Moore and Thorn, Js.P.) A Trumpery Case
Alexander Gallagher, Herbert Gallagher, and Felix Megan were charged by the police with having behaved in a riotous manner in Hunter-street West on the evening of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Police Court
THE only business before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Moore, J.P., in the Police court on Saturday morning was an adjourned application by Elizabeth Peacocke for a prohibition…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Daring Burglary at Stockton. a Most Remarkable Affair
ON Saturday morning, somewhere between 3 and 4.30 o'clock, a partly successful burglary of almost incredible audacity was committed at the grocery establishment of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CABLEGRAMS. The French Piracy Case Both Prisoners Sentenced to Death
PARIS, Saturday—The trial of the two brothers Rorique for piracy and the, murder in 1892 of the crew of the Tahitian, a trader flying the French…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District Court. (Before Judge Backhouse.) Saturday, December 9. Water and Sewerage Board v. M'Bride
UPON the opening of the Court, Mr. Blacket resumed his argument in this case, and contended that if a levy was only to be made on the person using the water it would be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Licensing Court
The transfer of the Great Northern Hotel, Devon-street, from Henry Giles to William Larkin, was granted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court Monday, December 11. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) An Inebriate
THOMAS HICKEY, 28, labourer, for having been drunk in Bolton-street on Saturday evening, was called upon to pay 10s, or in default 48 hours' gaol…
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