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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,029 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 39 of 52
JAMES ANDREWS, a clerk, was charged on remand on suspicion of being of unsound mind at Newcastle on 16th instant. The accused had been at Maitland for eight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The hearing of this case was resumed at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. His Honor Jugde Rogers allowed counsel a period for consultation, but it was ineffectual…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The produce store of Mr. Doyle, Sydney-road, Brunswick, was entered by burglars early on Saturday morning. They drilled through the back door, which was sheeted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JAMES CLAYTON and James Anderson were charged with being drunk in Hunter-street on Friday evening, and the Police Magistrate considering the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., and Mr. H. Crothers, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Walter Jones was brought up for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ELIZABETH ECKFORD, a servant, aged 50, who had been before the Court on previous occasions for drunkenness, was fined £1, in default seven days'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the Central Criminal Court to-day, Joseph Lee was charged with having broken into the house of his father, Philip Lee, and stolen a quantity of goods. Accused pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MAN named W. Steel was charged with three offences, viz., assaulting Sergeant Salter, using obscene language, and damaging Government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHILE Constable Hickey was on duty in Clarence-street yesterday he was informed that a man was attempting to sell a "Monarch" bicycle in Sussex-street for £2…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr YOUNG, in reply to Mr. BLACK, said said that the total sum of the salaries…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOR being drunk on the Market Wharf at about 11 a.m. on Tuesday, a seaman named Lauritz Jansen was fined 5s, in default 24 hours'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ACTING-JUDGE ROGERS to-day opened the Circuit Court. The first case called was that of the Boggabri murder, which has excited so much interest throughout the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Although yesterday was the regular sitting day at the West Maitland Police Court, a clean sheet was presented…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JAMES KIELEY sued Ernie Hollinshead for the sum of £2 5s, wages due, and £1 money due. James Keeley deposed that since…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THERE were six cases of drunkenness on the charge-sheet, Carrington supplying half the number. John Elliott, a fireman, and Charles Webb, a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE trial of John Frederick and William Benjamin Dederer, charged with the murder of Nazas Ali Khan at Bungan Flat, near Boggabri on May 13, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. G. F. Scott and K. Scobie, L Ms., occupied the Bench at the quarterly sitting of the Licensing Court at East Maitland yesterday forenoon. The applications of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Boggabri murder trial was resumed this morning, and the case for the Crown was closed. John Frederick Dederer said he wished to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ENOCH DAVIS, Albert Shaw, and Michael Long were charged with riotous behaviour at New Lambton, on the 23rd September. All three pleaded not guilty, but after…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AN aged married woman named Isabella Palmer was proceeded against by the Carrington police for using obscene language at 10 p.m. on 25th ultimo in the Clyde Hotel…
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