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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,085 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 55
A COUPLE of individuals named Patrick M'Mahon and Edward Harkins were brought up on charges of drunkenness and were discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE atmosphere of Newcomen-street, as a miner named John Richardson lurched along that thoroughfare, reeked with the fumes of consumed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE special case in the matter of the Crown Lands Acts of 1884 and 1889, and in the matter of the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank, Limited, application for an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SAILOR named Henry Hambleton, age 26, was arrested yesterday on a warrant charging him with having, on the 22nd instant, assaulted Alfred Crawford, keeper of the night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Annie Bastow prosecuted Thomas Holmes with having assaulted her in Sydney-street on the 20th inst. Mr. Low appeared for the complainant, and Mr. W. Reid for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The crime for which Brown paid the penalty yesterday was committed at Lovely Gully in South Australia on April 12, the murdered man being George Marowsky. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A special sitting of the Licensing Bench will be held at the West Maitland Courthouse on the 5th proximo for the consideration of applications for the renewal of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE case against John Blanche for a breach of the Public Instruction Act was struck out owing to him having left the district for New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A SMALL boy aged 14 pleaded guilty to stealing an air ball from a girl near the tram shed, Lambton. From the evidence it appeared that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →KENNETH M'LEOD, for being drunk in Market-street, was fined 5s, or in default 24 hours' lookup, the same penalty being imposed in the case of Samuel Ellick, for a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN the Banco Court to-day, before Judges Windeyer, Stephen, and Foster, the case of the Commercial Bank of Australia, Limited, against the Municipal District of Lambton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THAT last drink was just one too many for William Jones' carrying capacity, so he figured as a likely "case" for Constable Neill, in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CONSTABLE M'GILL'S penetrating observation was responsible for George Hale's introduction to the Bench. George found that being "tight" in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MATTERS in connection with the shearers' strike have assumed a serious aspect along the Darling River. This morning the river steamer Rodney was fired and sunk by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PARIS, Monday.—The Commissioner of Police at Mentone, the well-known watering-place on the Mediterranean, has been murdered by the anarchists…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN the Equity Court to-day Mr. H. P. Owen applied for the commitment of Mark Isaacs, one of the defendants in the case Ellis v. Isaacs, on the ground that he had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM TURNER, employed at the Co-operative Colliery, was brought up for indulging rather freely, and was fined 5s, it being his first offence…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WHITELY BLANCI and William Watson pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly in a public place at Charlestown on the 21st inst., and were fined…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SEAMAN, born in France, but with the decidedly English appellation of John Clark, while in Bolton-street, was guilty of the above offence…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →G. NATTRASS v. J. Hodson, for goods supplied, £2 3s 11d; verdict for amount, with 3s costs. SUMMONS COURT…
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