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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,072 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 54
ALBERT FENWICK was charged with driving a waggonette so furiously along the Georgetown-road on the 4th instant as to endanger the life of Miss E. Hughes, a passenger…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JOHN ALLEN, a labourer, when called upon to pay for a nobbler he ordered at the Glasgow Arms, Carrington, the previous day, refused to part, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JUDGE COHEN in Chambers to-day heard an application on behalf of Walter John Phillips and Daniel Patrick Phillips, committed for trial at Mudgee on a charge of…
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 6 →ALBEET PENFOLD and Charles Smith were charged on remand with stealing a clock value 5s 6d, the property of Mr. Win. Arnott, Senr., of Mayfield…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JOHN RYAN, sen., Minmi, for using indecent language on 26th December last, at the Railway Hotel verandah, was fined £1 and 5s 6d costs or seven…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Police Court to-day Thomas William Whittaker was charged with the murder of an old man, William Matthews, in a boarding-house in Margaret-street, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the Newtown Police Court to-day Elizabeth Cox was charged with having assaulted Mabel Cox, a girl of 7 years. The child appeared in court with her face and clothing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HENRY HEILKMAR and Henry Van Oige, seamen, were charged with being absent without leave from the ship Clan Graham at Newcastle on the 13th…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE case against the man, Wm. Phillips, who was arrested this afternoon, first on a charge of having stolen goods belonging to Messrs. Cooper in his possession, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday before Mr. H. Crothers, J P., a youth named William Edwards was charged with stealing a blanket and a quilt, the property of John Johnson. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ROBERT WHITSHEAD, Thomas Whitehead, John Avery, and Joseph Dial were charged on an information laid by Constables Mahood and Toohey, with riotous behaviour on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JOHN JEFFREY, a miner, was charged, on remand, with deserting his wife at Carrington on the 7th instant. Mr. J. Windeyer appeared for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE vicinity of the City Police Court was thronged to-day by a crowd of anxious people to get a look at Williams Myles Phillips, who was arrested yesterday on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Minister for Mines and Agriculture has decided, in view of the unsatisfactory termination of the inquest regarding the Stockton Colliery disaster, to institute a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man named John J. Dalton was brought up before Mr. H. Crothers, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court on Saturday on a charge of having travelled by rail without…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A SEAMAN named M'Ginty did not go down to the bottom of the sea like the man in the song, but he went to the bottom of a lot of pewters, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EARLY this morning Mrs. Turner, a married woman, cut her infant child's throat and then her own. When found both were nearly dead. Family trouble is believed to have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., and Messrs. H. Crothers and G. Maher, Js.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WILLIAM OSBORNE pleaded not guilty to the above charge. Constable Holt deposed that the offence took place in Kenrick-street about 10 o'clock on…
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