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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,085 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 43 of 55
JACKEY HUGHES and his sable spouse Margaret did the block on Saturday with an air of general bad luck they assume when on cadging bent (which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Monday.—A terrible murder is reported from County Mayo, Ireland, Mrs. M'Donnell, of Cloona Lodge, the principal landowner of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SAM CLARK, a young man, was charged with stealing a pair of trousers and a hat, valued at 7s 6d, the property of James Scully…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE affiliation case of Smith v. Timmons was resumed with closed doors. Mr. Dart appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Thompson for the defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"HE was an aged man, a man of years" (75 years), and his name was William, M'Donald. He told the Bench, in quivering accents, how a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE SPEAKER took the chair at 3.30 p.m., and announced that after consideration he had decided that in future he would not stringently enforce the standing order under…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. G. Maher, J.P., attended at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, and discharged an individual named William Bleaburn, who had been locked up on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE SPEAKER took the chair at 3.30 p.m. ANSWER TO QUESTIONS. Mr. EDDEN asked the Colonial Treasurer, "Will he lay upon the table of this House a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COLIN CAMPBELL, seaman, of the British-registered ship Dewhar, was charged with disorderly conduct on board that ship. He pleaded guilty,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. J. N. Brooks. P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. William Porter was charged by summons with having used indecent language in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JOHN FURLONG, 21, and James Driscoll, 35, two seamen, were each fined 5s, or in default 24 hours' gaol, for having been drunk in Market-street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →EDWARD BERRY, a miner, residing at Merewether, bankrupt, deposed that that was his first appearance in an insolvency court, and he attributed his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. J. N. Brooks, P.M., and Dr. Wright and Mr. Cunnmgham, Js.P., presided at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. James Mullins was charged, on remand,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JOHN E. COUIL, a coloured "doctor," was charged with burglary, but at the suggestion of the Police Magistrate the charge was altered to one of being unlawfully on promises…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WILLIAM JONES, labourer, demolished spirituous beverages until they got him down and worried him, so Constable Long thought; 5s, or 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JOHN IRVING, James Driscoll, and Henry Leader admitted to the Bench that they had "been there," and got off with the lightest punishment…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. J. N. Brooke, P.M., and Mr. H. Crothoes, J.P., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. John M'Conville was fined 10s, with an option of two…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WILLIAM LEWIS was charged , with making use of insulting language to Charles Anderson on the 8th inst. Charles Anderson deposed that he…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →J. HENDERSON was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Water-street early on Sunday morning. He was fined 10s, or in default three days…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →RICHARD JAMES, sailmaker, and William Jones, labourer, were each fined in the usual amounts for over-indulgence Riotous Behaviour…
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