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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,123 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 48 of 57
Annie Jane Searle proceeded against John Garnett, tramway employee, for the maintenance of her illegitimate child. Mr. Reid appeared for the complainant and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN DUFFY and Henry Williams were arrested yesterday, charged with assaulting and attempting to rob a Chinese laundryman in Pitt-street. It is alleged that the men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN WARREN and Lawrence Cooney were fined 5s, or 24 hours' for drunkenness. Alleged Housebreaking. James Sweeney and William…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., and Mr. H. Crothers, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. DRUNKENNESS…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The crime for which Emma Williams suffered was committed on Sunday, August 11. It was a deliberate and brutal murder, without one mitigating circumstance, as the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Michael WADDICk pleaded guilty to making use of obscene language in Kenrick-street, Plattsburg. Constable Holt deposed to the offence, and it…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Monday.—Theodore Durrant, the man who was charged at San Francisco with the outrage and murder of two females in April last,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Close states that the points reserved for the Full Court re the conviction of Dean are as follow:—In the charge of making a false declaration the point is that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIE SPOONER, an aboriginal, acknowledged the charge brought against him of being drunk and disorderly, and was fined 20s, or seven…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →EMMA WILLIAMS was executed in Melbourne gaol at 10 o'clock this morning for the murder of her little boy at Port Melbourne. Including the sheriff, under-sheriff, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. H. Crothers, J. P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday RAILWAY CASE. John Short was charged under the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Messrs. J. Cunningham, J. Windross, and J. Ewing, Js.P., occupied the Bench at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. DRUNKENNESS…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MRS. RAMSAY V. Thomas Ramsay, asking for sureties of the peace in consequence of her husband having used threatening language. Defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ANNIE WHITE and Michael Hamilton were charged with behaving in an indecent manner on the Upper Reserve, and were fined 40s, or 14 days'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE only persons brought before Mr. H. Crothers, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday were a couple of inebriates, one of whom was discharged, the other being…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JAMES SINCLAIR was Charged With stealing the sum of £12 5s from Stephen Muscovish on the evening of the 3rd inst…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NORTH Sydney, which has become notorious because of the great Dean sensation having originated there, was early this morning the scene of another and more shocking tragedy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Scott, P.M., and Mr. J Rourke, J.P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. John Short was charged on remand with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ERICK PLATT was charged with assauting Charles Henry Curtis on Wednesday, the 6th inst., and pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following licenses were granted for booths at the Racecourse on Saturday, for the military tournament:— David Thomas, Imperial Hotel,…
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