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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,085 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 37 of 55
Robert Charlton, charged with being drunk and disorderly on the 5th inst., was fined 5s. On a further charge of obscene language, he was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT was noticed by Constable Holt as he took an observation of Thomas Cleary in Hunter-street on Wednesday evening, that Thomas'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. J. N. Brooks, P.M., and Dr. Wright, and Mr. Windross, Js.P., occupied the Bench at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday, and disposed of a small list of cases…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE police control of this colony is conducted on a tawdry imitation of militarism, and the System assuredly has all the disadvantages of the latter, with but few of the advantages of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The case Annie Bestow v. Thomas Holmes, which was partly heard a fortnight before, and in which an assault was alleged against Holmes, again came before the Bench. A…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Lloyd, inspector of nuisances for Newcastle borough, proceeded against Stewart Robson for having abandoned a horse whilst it was injured…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To the following, who had gone in for too much of the elbow-raising business on Thursday, it was quite immaterial how often the Police Magistrate repeated the chestnut, 5s…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JAMES MINAIN, to a charge of using obscene language, pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s and 5s 10d costs. James Minain pleaded not guilty to the same offence, but was fined 5s…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A SPECIAL meeting of the City Council was held yesterday afternoon for the purpose of considering what action should be taken with regard to the recent failure of the prosecutions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HUGH ARMSTRONG, seaman, experienced a weakness to get outside a maximum of beer in a minimum of time, and got on so well that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. J. N. BROOKS, P.M., and Mr. J. B. R. Robertson, J.P., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. The hearing of a charge of using indecent language…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Charles Brennan and, Hanna Belford were charged with having, on the 27th of May last, broken and entered the dwelling-house of George Barrack at Hamilton and stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILLIAM JAMES EDWARDS, a youth, without boots and in a most pitiable condition, was charged with stealing 22yds of fishing not from Cockle Bay,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →John Henry Roscoe, an elderly man, pleaded guilty to four indictments charging him (1) with having, at Merriwa on August 12th, stolen a mare the property of Benjamin…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Irvine Keddie, on bail, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with having, on July 26th, at Hamilton, assaulted one Charles Joseph Nolmes. He said he had assaulted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the Hillston Police Court to-day Thomas Clune was charged with the wilful murder of John Lambkin. From a statement made by accused it seems that the parties had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN EDWARDS felt the depressing effects of the westerly wind, after the purer ozone of the briny, and " so he kept his spirits up by pouring spirits…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. H. Crothers presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, and administered a salutary lesson to a townsman named Pierce Duff. Pierce had used some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Robert Urquhart, age 68, a gold-miner, was arraigned on a charge of having at Charlestown on May 6th last indecently assaulted Welthy Edith Cain, a girl of the age…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →John Powell, a labourer, was arraigned on a charge of having, on July 17th, assaulted Emily Shaw in such a way as to cause the woman actual bodily harm. There was a…
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