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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,123 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 57
ROBERT G. BENSON, enginefitter, was arrested by Constable Boland at 1 o'clock yeaterday morning and charged with being drunk. In court the accused, who pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the East Maitland Police Court on Saturday forenoon (before Mr. Ewing, J.P.), Stephen Murphy was brought up on remand as a person denoting symptoms of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GUSTAV POULTEN, on bail, responded to the reproachful accusation of Senior-constable Meara that he had absorbed something which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BENJAMEN WALXER was charged On arrest with obtaining the sum of 19s 6d and two glasses of brandy from Mrs. Elizabeth Weaver, by means of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A REMARKABLE occurrence took place in Thomas-street, Camperdown, yesterday afternoon, when a married man named Ezra Abrahams shot three times at a young…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. J. N. BROOKS, P.M., and Mr. H. Crothers, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. John Watson was brought up for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ellen Newman, an elderly woman, was charged with having on April 19, at Newcastle, broken and entered the dwelling of Louis Hencke, and stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SHE stood on the wharf at midnight; as the clocks were striking the hour and the moon rose o'er the city—and she got run in, did Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Within the last few days Constable Burrell, formerly acting-gaoler at Kempsey, has been transferred to West Maitland, so that the local staff is now filled, all the officers…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SERGEANT THOMPSON prosecuted for police. Very Rowdy. Martin Gloady, seaman, violently…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THOMAS HIBEY, aged 19, a man-o'-war man, was arraigned on a charge of having, at Hamilton, on April 5th, indecently assaulted Mary Ann…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MICHAEL MARTIN was charged with having used obscene language in High-street on the 8th inst. He pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s, or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RICHARD SOUTHON was charged with neglecting to contribute to the support of his illegitimate male child by the mother, Jane Sanderson, of Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WHEN Charles Keenar, a young seaman, was confronted with a report of the language he was said to have used in Young-street, Carrington, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE District Court was commenced yesterday morning, the Judge getting through the list of 30 cases in a very few hours. He has on this occasion…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN No. 1 Jury Court to-day, before the Chief Justice, the case of Vickery and others v. Pulbrook was commenced. Mr. Want, Q C. (Attorney-General), and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. J. N. Brooks, P.M., and Mr. H. Crothers, J P., attended the West Maitland Court at the usual hour yesterday forenoon, but were surprised to and that there were no…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sergeant Thompson prosecuted for police…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Friendly Appeal Court, held in the council chambers on Wednesday evening, there was a bare quorum, the Mayor (Alderman A. Pryor), and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Central Criminal Court to-day, Gum Bo. a Chimaman, pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging him with having murdered Hip Nam…
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