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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,072 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 43 of 54
A LABOURER named Robt. Jackson was charged by warrant from Penrith with deserting his wife, Amelia Jackson, since August 30, 1897. Mr. T. Cronin…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →HENRY JOHNSON was charged with using indecent language in Elder-street on Sunday night, the 3rd inst. He pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A DARING burglary was committed early this morning at Mr. T. W. Vicars' factory, Victoria-road, Marrickville. An entrance to the office was gained by prizing up the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THOMAS BURGESS, William Ridley, and Thomas Thompson, for drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours. Hettie M'Cuskie was fined 5s…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Messrs. H. Crothers, Alex Wilkinson, and J. D. Prentice occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Thomas M'Grath, a one-legged man, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the Newtown Police Court to-day George May was charged with having assaulted a woman named Emily Miller. Senior-constable Curray , while on duty in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THREE seamen, Axel Sygnelson, Peter Hansen, and Chas. Johns, belonging to the barque Glenogle, were charged with deserting from that vessel, and,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jas. Dart v. Joseph Sparke, claim £1 1s for professional services rendered. Verdict for plaintiff, together with 5s costs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Henry Crothers, J.P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. An inebriate was fined £1 or seven days…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LOUIS C. NORMAN, Louis Marie Henry, Paul Jean Rion, Gustav Marchal, Adolph Michel, and Jean Pierre Horellon, pleaded guilty to deserting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. N. Payton, S.M., Tompkins John Farrar, a boy 13 years of age, proceeded against M. L. Saunders for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Albert Nixon was convicted of unlawfully stabbing his wife in the office of H. M. Addison, chairman of the State Bank, and was sentenced this morning to 18 months'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. An inebriate who posed as a first offender was admonished and discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JAMES FRASER, a seaman, pleaded guilty to being drunk in Hunter-street, and was fined 5s in default "the rising."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE were only three cases listed, and Mr. Payton rattled them off in double-quick time. Amy Sheldon, for drunkenness, was fined 5s, Thos…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE ease of Charles Do Clonet, charged with the attempted murder of his wife, was Concluded to-day. His Honer having summed up the jury,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HENRY LIMEBURNER, , a waterman, for riotous behaviour on the Market Wharf, pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s in default four days. Drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The other day a magistrate Who observed a witness kissing her thumb on being sworn instructed the lady to salute that greatly osculated copy of the scriptures on which,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two of the escapes were arrested by Mounted constables Schmidt and Shanks seven miles above Morgan, at 7 o'clock this morning, on the opposite side of the river…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SENSATIONAL burglary has been reported from Granville. Yesterday afternoon the residence of Mr. Abernethy, of Granville North was broken into, and a quantity of…
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