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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,085 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 55
GEORGE BELL, draper's assistant, was charged with fraudulently removing furniture from the house of Isaac Hutchison, Bell being a tenant at the time, and in arrears of rent in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JOHN WILLIAMS, cook, was fined 5s or 24 hours' lookup, for being drunk on the previous day. Jack Hughes, an aboriginal, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The municipal council held the annual Friendly Appeal Court on Thursday evening at the council chambers, when Alderman Butts, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT the Central Police Court this morning Samuel George, aged 17, was brought up on a charge of being concerned in the death of an Italian named Baffo. He was remanded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN ESLICK and Patrick Black, miners, were fined 10s or 48 hours each for being drunk. Indecency…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN giving judgment in a Police Court appeal at the Quarter Sessions to-day, Judge Murray, in referring to the practice of the Court below, said he noticed that the evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PHILLIP CONNELLY, a hawker, was charged with the larceny of a purse and 3s, the property of Alice French, or Plattsburg. The theft took place…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JACK HUGHES, aboriginal, was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lookup, for drunkenness. Drunk and Disorderly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →John Murphy was charged with having assaulted Constable Mundy while in the execution of his duty. Constable Mundy said that at 10…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE tragedy at Barraba, in which a bank manager was attacked by two armed men and shot dead, is still another ghastly addition to the many similar affairs, which have recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JOHN MORRISON, labourer, was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness. Drunk and Disorderly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SENSATIONAL murder was reported to the police to-day. A women named Catherine Burgess gave information that she had found a man named Eugene Possett lying dead in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN JOHNSTON, labourer, was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lookup, for drunkenness, Licensing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CATHERINE BURGESS, housekeeper for the murdered Frenchman Possett, was brought up at the City Court to-day charged with vagrancy, and was remanded for a week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. COPELAND, in reply to Mr. ROSE, said he was not at present able to say if it was his intention to introduce a bill dealing with the Central leases, as circumstances had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SERGEANT GRENNAN presented his quarterly report on all the hotels in his district, and was complimented by the Bench on the same…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DONALD STEWART and Alexander Wilson, seamen, were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lookup, for drunkenness. Drunk and Disorderly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Police Court Arthur Austin and Moffatt Austin were charged with assaulting a man named Clarke, at Fortitude Valley. The former was discharged, and the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BENJAMIN COOPER, 31, miner, for having been drunk on the previous night in Perkin-street, was ordered to pay 5s, or, in default, 24 hours'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SENIOR-CONSTABLE MYERS, of Wee Waa, late on Friday evening, made an arrest in connection with the Barraba bank tragedy. He met a man in a very exhausted condition…
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