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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,085 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 55
JOHN MURPHY, miner, was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lookup, for drunkenness. Riotous Behaviour. John Curry, Thomas Harper, Hugh…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AN appeal against the conviction in the case of Regina v. Mutch was heard before the Full Court this afternoon. The prisoner was convicted at the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALEXANDER ERSKINE, 50, and Martin Peterson, 33, two seamen, were each fined the usual 5s or, in default, 24 hours in the lockup, for having been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LATE on Saturday, after a retirement of over five hours, the jury brought in a verdict of murder with a strong recommendation to mercy against Alfred Douglas and James…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HENRY JOIN KING, of Victoria-parade, Melbourne, professor of music, applied to the Victorian Divorce Court last week for a dissolution of his marriage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JAMES WILSON, 32, a labourer, and Frederick Vignard, 51, a French seaman, were drunk in Hunter-street and Carrington respectively on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ST. PETERSBURG, Monday.—The authorities are maintaining a strict watch upon the movements of the Nihilists throughout the country, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. CRONIN and Messrs. Jobson and Lindus (valuators) appeared on behalf of the council. John Rowsell, four-roomed cottage, £10 8s annual value,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FRANK DIXON was brought in from Dudley by Constable Weir, and charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct at that place…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALEXADER M'DONALD, James O'Neill, and Edmond Phillips, labourers, were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lookup, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Full Court to-day gave its decision on the point reserved in the case of Norton v. Crick. It will be recollected in this case that Mr. John Norton obtained a verdict for £700…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the Water Police Court this afternoon the five men who were recently committed for trial on a charge of having in the sheet known as Justice criminally libelled Mr. T…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALEXANDER SHOOTER, seaman, was charged, on remand, with having in his possession a shirt, a pair of trousers, and a singlet, reasonably…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DURING the hearing of appeals against the assessment at the Waratah Police Court yesterday Mr. Henry, P.M., and Messrs. A. Asher, J. Thorn, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m. The SPEAKER announced that assent had been given to the Stamp Duties Act Amendment Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man named Royal Bernard Rose, who had been convicted of perjury, was sentenced by the Chief Justice to 18 months' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GEORGE STONE and George seamen, Thomas Ramsay, baker; Charles Earl miner; George Hornburg, butcher; and David Frank, steward, were each fined 5s, with an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The barque Dhuleep Singh, well-known here, has arrived at New York from Pisagua. During the voyage the crew became mutinous, and a seaman named Pedersen killed another seaman named Shields…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE proprietors of Justice, who are charged with having published in that paper an article calculated to incite people to commit the crime of murder, were again brought up at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE case of Bolster v. Bolster, referred to the Full Court by the Chief Judge in Divorce, came on for argument before Judge Windeyer, Judge Foster, and Judge Stephen this…
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