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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,029 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 52
A SENSATIONAL case is engaging the attention of the local police, On Monday Henry Arnold Tubbs went by coach to Wallace, telling the coachman that he would return…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DR. S. S. SHERLOWE, of Charlestown, sued Arthur Hollingshead, of Waratah, for the sum of £10, being the amount paid by the plaintiff for a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., and Mr. H. Crothers, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Albert Compton, Vincent M'Donald, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WILLIAM THACKER, a boy, pleaded guilty to throwing stones on the 8th inst. on a public road, Pittown, Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CHARLES C. QUINN, a seaman, charged with indecent behaviour and using bad language, said, in answer to the accusation, "I don't recollect nothin',"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A billiard-room license was transferred from Daniel Coylo to James Lightfoot…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., occupied the Bench at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. Abraham Dicks, of Largs, was fined 5s, with 4s 10d costs, for drunkenness; and Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. G. F. Scott, District Registrar, conducted two examinations in bankruptcy at the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday forenoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JAMES COLLINS and George Franklin, seamen, were charged with drunkenness. The former, who was arrested at 4 o'clock the previous afternoon was fined 5s, or confinement till the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE matter of the Crown against Jules Ernest Joubert, of Be Tree, near Nyagan, was again before the Judge in Chambers to-day, on an application to make absolute a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the East Maitland Police Court on Saturday last, before Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., Frank Robertson was brought up on remand as a person of unsound mind, and was discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the Redfearn Police Court yesterday a middle-aged cabman named George Standhall was remanded until Thursday on suspicion of being implicated in a case of daring assault…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—Baldwin, a Radical election agent at Chesterman, has been sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for offering opponents fictitious…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. G. F. SCOTT. P.M., and Mr. H. Crothers and Dr. Haynes, Js P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JAMES COLLINS for drunkenness in Watt-street was fined 5s, or detention till the rising of the court; and Frederick Melville, for obscene…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the local Court to-day Alfred Bracken was charged with the wilful murder of William James Council, known at "Curley," at Grenfell. The accused had been acquitted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOSEPH NEWMAN was the solitary occupant of the dock, and looked very woebegone whilst the charge of being drunk and disorderly was read out to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HANNAH EMBLETON pleaded guilty to having been drunk and making use of indecent language on the 20th instant, in Macquarie-street, at the same time…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Tuesday.—News received from the Transvaal to-day reports that the majority of the political agitators who were recently arrested…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Chief Justice sitting in the Vice-Admiralty Court this morning had before him an application by John Fenwick and others, owner of the steam tug here,…
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