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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,123 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 57
ROBERT METER, a seaman, was charged with stealing from the ship Port Sonochan a suit of oilskins, the property of Henry Griffith. The accused admitted his guilt,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →During the latter part of last week Mr. J. N. Brooks, Police Magistrate, returned to Maitland from his property at Gosford. Although still indisposed, Mr. Brooks has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the West Maitland Police Court last Saturday Thomas Bennett was brought up for drunkenness. The accused had been in the lookup from the preceding night, and Mr. H…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the Water Police Court yesterday Thomas Ernest Rofe, the solicitor who was employed by the petitioner (the husband) in the notorious divorce case, Butler v. Butler, for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MESSERS. H. CROTHERS and A. Cobb, Js.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. HAWKERS' LICENESES…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GEORGE CASELY, a smart-looking boy, pleaded guilty to setting fire to some grass at Chinaman's Flat, Wallsend. The boy said he set fire to a bunch…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JOHN DAWSON was fined £1, or seven days, for indecent behaviour; and Emily Shaw, for obscene language, was fined £3, or two months, and for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In this case Cornelius Kiely obtained a verdict against E. O'Gallagher for £7 and costs, for goods supplied. The judgment was not satisfied, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the Central Police Court to-day, Alice M'Alister was charged in company with another with assaulting a lad named Jacob Glaser. Glaser, who was seriously injured,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THOMAS FLAGHNEN, a powerfully-built fellow, with a long black beard, visited Mr. W. H. Milton's hostelry, known as the Miners' Arms, at Hamilton, on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the Central Criminal Court to-day Thomas Brown was charged with the murder of his child, Thomas Brown, aged 7, at Red-fern on June 29…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM Curtis and Patrick Kenny were each fined 5s or 24 hours for drunkenness. Breach of Bylaws…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In this case Sergeant M'Vane proceeded against Thomas Trelevan for not obeying an order of the Court to pay, 5s per week, and against John…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MESSRS, H. Crothers and R. Scobie J'sP., occupied the Bench at West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Samuel Lancaster, a young man, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DONALD M'LELLAN, a respectable looking youth, described as an apprentice on board one of the ships in the harbour, was charged with using…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Samuel Eveson, who gave himself up to the police some months ago, and confessed to the murder of a girl at Nottingham, England, by pushing her into the River Trent,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JAMES CONNELL was brought up on a charge of being of unsound mind. The evidence of Sergeant Coghlan, taken on Tuesday, was to the effect…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE insolvent's schedule showed the amount of his liabilities to be £35 10s 5d, and assets good debts £1 7s, and doubtful, 19s 6d. He attributed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →P. J. Grealy applied for a transfer of the license of the Gladstone Hotel, Stockton, from David Lewis. Mr. Sparke appeared for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MESSRS. A. G. COULLUM, J. Cunningham, and Dr. Wright, Js.P., occupied the Bench at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. Thomas Smith was fined 1s, with an option…
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