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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,072 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 54
WILLIAM WAITES, a fireman, fired up heavily on Saturday night; John Gaynor, James Steel, and Patrick Riley, labourers, laboured a lot when they got a few in; and Eugene…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GEORGE HUGHES, a watermen, and William Dalton, a labourer, was charged with drunkenness. The former pleaded guilty, and was fined a crown; but Ealton was not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Waratah Municipal Council sued the following persons for rates, and obtained verdicts for the full amount with costs:—J. C. Bona[?]ius, £3 1s 11d; Bridget Tobin, £6 17s…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A TERRIBLE tragedy was enacted in the Central Railway Station shortly before 8 o'clock to-night. A woman named Harriet Elizabeth Jackson and her daughter Laura, aged 9…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Crothers, J.P., Helena Braggatt was charged with obtaining goods and money, to the value of 20s, from Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →RICHARD ROBERTSON, painter, arrested on suspicion on Tuesday evening, was charged with entering the Greta Colliery office on Saturday night last, and taking from the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →HENRY WINTERS, a seaman, was charged with disobeying lawful commands on board the barque Veritas. Constable Brown deposed to the arrest of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Wednesday.—A debate took place in the House of Commons last night on the Cretan question. Sir William Harcourt, leader of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Newcastle and district the elections passed off without any serious results. Outside the old courthouse, which was the heaviest polling centre on account of its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Police Court yesterday Alfred Joseph Stollery, licensee of the Royal Hotel, was charged with maliciously wounding a cow, the property of Robert Wright. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →HENRY TAYLOR and Robert Kelly were charged with trespassing on the Lambton Coal Company's enclosed lands on the 10th February. Both pleaded guilty and were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHN BRIDGER and John Frank, seamen, "federated" on polling day after leaving their vessel, with the result that the lockup polled the pair of them up Bridger got the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Port Darwin telegraphs that two natives concerned in the murder of Thomas Augustus Perry, at Creswell Downs, were brought from Borroloola in charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—In response to the pressure brought to bear by the Embassies, the Turkish Council of Ministers has decided to imprison…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →William Conn summoned Benjamin Shakespeare for the sum of £1 4s 2d, goods sold and delivered. Verdict for plaintiff for full amount with costs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the West Maitland Police Court on Saturday Leonard K. Barnett was charged, before Mr. H. Crothers, J P., with having obtained the sum of £1 from Mrs Winter by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WILLIAM ARTHUR WHEELER and 10 other able-bodied seamen belonging to the British-registered vessel Dunsyre, who were charged with…
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. William Heron was brought up for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →William Bennett, a middle-aged men, pleaded not guilty to a charge of indecently assaulting a little girl under the age of 14—to wit, 7 years and 9 months—named Sylvia…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →David Williams and Fredrick Daniel Heffernan, two seafaring men, were presented on charges of stealing from the person and receiving. They pleaded guilty to the…
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