Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Courts & crime, all years

Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1894

1,085 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 50 of 55

Maitland District. Alleged Horse Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 November 1894 · page 8

ON Thursday morning Mr. J. A. Coberoft, of Charlton, 14 miles from Singleton, missed a valuable race mare under conditions which caused him to conclude that the beast had been stolen. Suspicion fell on a…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Newcastle Police Court Friday, November 23. (Before Messrs. Martin, Christie, Thorn, and Clapin, Js.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 November 1894 · page 7

PHILIP DENMAN, Seaman, showed too conspicuously to Water police Constable Hatherly the result of his interviews with numerous bartenders. Visiting day cost…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

The Police at Plattsburg. Debate in the Assembly. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 November 1894 · page 5

IN the Assembly on Thursday on the motion for the adjournment of the House Mr. WATKINS said he desired to draw the attention of the Colonial Secretary tot he state…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 November 1894 · page 8

MR. H. CROTHERS, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police court on Saturday. Martin Daley, an elderly individual, who was charged with drunkenness, pleaded…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Greta Police Court. Saturday, November 24. (Before Dr. W. H. Rodgers, J.p.) Alleged Horse-stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 November 1894 · page 7

DONALD MILLER, a boy, 14 years of age, was charged with stealing a horse, saddle, and bridle, the property of Mr. A. Cobcroft, near Singleton…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Newcastle Police Court Saturday, November 24. (Before Mr. G. C. Martin, J.P.) Fluids

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 November 1894 · page 6

AFTER a too-successful attempt to wash off the salinaceous encrustation of his thorax, created by a long sea voyage, William M'Kinnon was…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. the Supreme Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 November 1894 · page 5

THE Supreme Court yesterday admitted J. De L. O'Reilly as a barrister, and C. B. G. Bawden, D. T. Gilerees, H. F. M'Key, and S.W. Von Arnheim as solicitors. The jury…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 November 1894 · page 7

MR H. GORDON, P.M., and Mr. H. Crothers, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, and the proceedings lasted…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Newcastle Police Court Monday, November 26. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. O'Mara, J.P.) Thirsty Souls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 November 1894 · page 2

CONTRARY to Mr. Meteorologist Wragge's prediction, the weather round John Thompson, seaman, on Saturday night rapidly passed through…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wallsend Police Court. Monday, November 26. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.M., and Mr. T. Fryar, J.p.) Stage Coach License

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 November 1894 · page 2

SIMPSON HALL was granted a stage coach license to ply for hire to West Wallsend. DRUNKENNESS…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 November 1894 · page 8

Mr. H. Crothers, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Ernest Knight, a youth 18 years of age,…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Assault on Free Labourers at Plattsburg

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 November 1894 · page 5

NOTWITHSTANDING the large number of police stationed here on special duty, it would seem that repeated assaults are still being made on the free labourers. As it is not to…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, November 27. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Christie, J.P.) Drunk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 November 1894 · page 6

JOHN MAHER, fireman, found the seductive influences of a bar such a contrast to the oppressiveness of the stoke hole aboard ship that he forgot…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 November 1894 · page 8

MR. H. CROTHERS, J.P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Thomas Dymott was brought up for drunkenness and discharged. Thomas J. Mulcahy…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Greta Police Court. Wednesday, November 28. (Before Mr. Gordon, P.m.) Too Much Liquor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 November 1894 · page 6

MAT. MALONEY was charged with having been drunk and disorderly. Reo pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s or 48 hours…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, November 28. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Martin and Christie, Js.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 November 1894 · page 2

HENRY ORMSBY, cook, pleaded guilty to having fallen a victim to the fascinations of seductive, but overpowering refreshers, whereby he came in…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 November 1894 · page 8

MR H. GORDON, P.M., and Messrs. H. Crothers and G. H. Smithers, Js.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Bankruptcy Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 November 1894 · page 7

Single meetings were held in respect of the insolvencies of William Foreman and William Davis. In each case one debt was proved, the meeting…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Newcastle Police Court Thursday, November 29. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Martin, J.p.) a Tough Customer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 November 1894 · page 7

THOMAS ALLAN, seaman, who said that he arrived in Newcastle as second mate of a vessel not long since, but who, by a singular lapse of memory,…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, November 29. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.M., and Messrs. Fryar, Rushton, and Dr. J. B. Nash, Js.P.) PROTECTION

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 November 1894 · page 6

A RESPECTABLE-LOOKING woman named Mrs. Alice Philips was brought up for protection. From statements made it would seem that on Wednesday…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →