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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,072 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 54
OTTO HENSEL, a seaman, belonging to the British registered vessel Thistle, was charged with disobeying the lawful commands of the master, Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →James M'Cabe, a well-known miner of Stockton, on returning recently from a 15 months' stay in Coolgardie received from his wife a letter in which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →OWEN HUGHES, Thomas Burns, and Edward Jokisch toed the line, charged with drunkenness. They each pleaded guilty, and the S.M. let them off with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MAHOMET SERANG, a dealer, was charged with fraudulently appropriating to his own use certain property belonging to one Samuel Cordwell, to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. G.F. Scott, P.M., and Mr. A. Wilkinson, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. William Taylor, a stranger, was fined 5s, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FOUR eases of drunkenness were set down for hearing. Maurice Collins and William Roberts, two seamen, who were arrested by Constables…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILLIAM MULLEN and George Hemmings were charged with being drunk on the 24th and 26th March, and were each fined 5s, and 5s 6d costs, or four…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MESSRS. J. MAIR and C. N. Payten, S.Ms., and Mr. G. C. Martin, J.P., presided over the quarterly Licensing Court yesterday afternoon. An…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DAVID BROWN pleaded guilty to driving a horse with sore shoulders on the lest inst. Constable Hughes deposed that the sores were evidently of recent date. The true skin…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A COURT-MARTIAL was held to-day on H.M.S. Katoomba, when Edgar George Craddock, formerly assistant paymaster of the same vessel, was arraigned upon four charges…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the case of the bankruptcy of Walter Arrowsmith Hunt, a miner, of Stockton, there were no creditors present, and the examination was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Thursday.—President Kruger has ordered a special court to try his relative, Lieutenant Eloff, who was recently suspended from his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHN BARKER, a labourer, aged 45, who was arrested by Constable W. Strachan early on Friday evening for using indecent language within the hearing of persons passing along…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MRS. JANE BUCKLEY, licensee of the Commercial Hotel, was charged with selling liquors during prohibited hours, on Sunday, the 4th of April. She pleaded guilty, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the West Maitland Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. H. Crothers, J.P., a young man named Albert Fraser was charged that, being the bailee of a horse, van, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A COMPOSITOR named Joseph Abbott was taken to the Sydney Hospital last night suffering from wounds in the neck and face, said to have been inflicted during a fight with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., and Messrs. H. Crothers and A. Wilkinson, Js. P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BOB PHILLIPS, a stranger, was charged with being drunk on pay-Friday evening, and as he had been in the lockup since then, a fine of 5s, with the option of sitting till the rising…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There was no business of any importance in this court. The Water and Sewerage Board had 28 cases listed for the non-payment of overdue rates. Mr. P. D. Hart, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →William Hook, of the Toronto Hotel, was granted a music permit for Easter Monday. BOOTH LICENSES. Messrs. William Smith, Joseph Howell,…
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