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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,072 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 54
SENIOR-CONSTABLE MEARA introduced William Harvey and James Riley, both of whom were the worse of liquor on the island the previous afternoon. They were each fined a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. PITCHER, the solicitor who obtained the confession from the youth William Phillips, who is accused of murdering the bookkeeper Brady, has had another interview…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ERNEST KNIGHT, 19, was charged with stealing one suit of clothes, one silver watch and chain, one pair of boots, one pack of cards, and a purse containing 3s 6d in silver…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MESSES. H. Crothers and J. Enright, Js P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court on Saturday. William Thompson and John Williamson…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CHARLES LLOYD, a labourer, aged 40, who was arrested upon warrant at Kahibah by Constable J. Thompson, of Charlestown, at 4 o'clock on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. M. Murray and G. Maher, Js.P., Herbert Daunt was fined 6s, with 2s 6d costs, for having injured three trees on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The murder of a British trader named J. Gibbine by natives of the island of Rendova, in the Solomons, shows the necessity of the appointment of magistrates and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Mayor (Aldermen T. Smith) and Aldermen Sharp, Look, Kidd, Timbury, Miller, Moroney, Asher, and Thorn attended at the council chambers yesterday afternoon, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A COLOURED man named Moses Russ was charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on one Daniel Clark at Newcastle early on the morning of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE premises of Messrs. Lazarus, Rosenfeld, and Benjamin, 208 Kent-street, were entered by burglars last night. Mr. Rosenfeld left everything all right last night, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM CROGER was charged with riotous behaviour in Hunter-street. Constable Turnbull stated that Croger with another German was creating a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The inquest on the murdered man Brady was continued all day, and adjourned until to-morrow. The only fresh evidence was that of Charles Phillips, brother of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →J. PEFFER (per E. Dixon, agent) v. G. Gillard, rent due £3 19s; verdict for amount claimed with 4s 10d costs. G. D. Nattrass v. D. Barnett, bread sold…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. G. F. Scott, F.M, and Mr. H. Crothers, J.P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Frank Dunlop and Edward Richards were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Police Court on Wednesday, only three small debt cases were brought before Mr. C. H. Peyton, S.M., as follow ;—Thomas Bowie, butcher, Minmi, versus Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the West Maitland Police court yesterday a couple of eases were called in which the parties did not appear. A solicitor representing the defendants stated that the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE inquest on the body of Thomas Wm. Brady was resumed and concluded this morning. After the coroner had summed up, the jury returned a verdict of " wilful…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JACK SMITH, a labourer, who had placed 80 summers to his credit, was charged with being drunk in the Lower Reserve. Constable Graham…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A TRAGIC affair happened at Lawler's on Monday week. A man named Barker, who paid attention to a barmaid named Sylvester, was rejected by heron account of his alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday. — Lieutenant Brusewitz, for the murder of an engineer in a cafe at Carlsruhe, has been sentenced to three years'…
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