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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,085 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 55
LEENDART WILLEN VANDERMADE, alias John, age 19, and Geradus Tiffell, 22, two seamen, of the ship King Arthur, were charged, on remand from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday.—A confidential inquiry has been held in Dublin Castle to investigate the murder of the man Reed, who some time ago was arrested…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HENRY RALPH was charged on warrant with failing to reply to summons in which he was called upon to pay towards the support of his illegitimate child, of whom Margaret…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MARY COULSON was fined 20s, with an alternative of seven days' gaol, for drunkenness. Drunk and Disorderly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Tuesday.—A murder mystery is reported from Paris. The body of a gentleman, recognised as that of a traveller by the Lyons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A REMARKABLE charge of murder is reported from Lusk, a village in the county of Dublin. A labourer named Whelan resided in the house of his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THOMAS RAMSEY, an aged man, and well known in the district, was charged with threatening to knock his wife's brains out with an axe, she…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ROBERT DIXON, 32, watchmaker, was fined 5s, or in default 24 hours for having been drunk in Scott-street on the previous evening…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE inquest regarding the strange death of the man James Unwin, who died suddenly at the Glebe recently, and whose body was exhumed, was resumed to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FREDERICK WILLIAMS, aged 34, a man of colour, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with maliciously wounding a wharf labourer named William M'Masters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THOS. H. HAGAN, made application for a hawker's license, and Ernest Winder, Lochinvar, made application for a slaughtering license. Both were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MICHAEL NOLAN was charged with being drunk on the platform of the Waratah railway station on December 21, also with using offensive language…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EMILY WILLIAMS and William Hogan, miner, were each fined 5s, with an alternative of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN H. SMITH summoned Charles Ogilvie for assault. From the evidence, it would seem that on the 6th just, the boys had a quarrel about a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WILLIAM WHITE, labourer, was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness. Drunk and Disorderly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOHN WILLIAMS, a youth, was charged with stealing about £3 in silver from John Owen at Sandgate on the 10th instant. Constable Daly deposed that Owen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SENSATIONAL attempt to rob a pawnbroker's shop at Williamstown occupied by Mr. C. M. Craweour, was made to-day. There was a lot of valuable jewellery on the promises,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HENRY EDWARD RUMBOLD, 37, a Grimsby-skipper, was charged at Lincoln Assizes recently with the murder of Harriet Rushby, at Grimsby. The…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →SAMUEL MARSH, a married man, was charged with wilfully and indecently exposing his person in Wombyne-road, Lambton Commonage, on the 6th instant. Mrs. Brown…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A YOUNG man named Henry Smith was charged at the Water Police Court to-day with having stolen a racing mare belonging to George R. Wilson, of Ipswich…
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