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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,072 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 51 of 54
In the Criminal Court to-day Thomas Gerald Wilson was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for the forgery of a cheque. Patrick Carr got three years for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SERGEANT OXLEY proceeded against Edward Dodds for arrears of school fees to the amount of 3s 6d. A verdict was given for the amount, with 5s 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Greaves, an Englishman in, the Persian telegraph service, has been brutally murdered by brigands. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sun War was charged at the instance of Constable Barry, stationed at Lochinvar, with a breach of the Hawkers' Act, to wit, not having the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ROBERT DOUGLAS pleaded guilty to being drunk in Harris-street on Monday, the 6th inst. Sergeant Coghlan stated that the man had been drinking…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WALTER TELFER, a salesman, arrested by Constable J. Bartlett, for drunkenness in Hunter-street, was fined 10s, in default four days' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MESSRS. G. F. Scott, P.M., Alex, Wilkinsan, and C. W. Holmes, Js.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An application was made by Mr. Windeyer for the transfer of the license of the Criterion Hotel, from James Hales to John Kelly. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JAMES KAVANAGH was charged with drunkenness and obscene language in Grainger-street on the 4th instant. He pleaded guilty. He was further charged with assaulting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FRANK WARD (22) a labourer, an Silas Bailey (67) a gardener, for drunkenness were each fined 5s, or the rising of the Court. Given a Chance…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Newcastle District Court was opened yesterday morning before his Honor Judge Backhouse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. Alex. Wilkinson, Geo. Maher, and G. H. Webb occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. An inebriate was fined 5s, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →William Evans was charged with indecent assault on the 2nd October, 1897, at Muswellbrook. Prisoner was undefended, and pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Thomas Bellamy, jun., Herbert Bellamy, and Joseph Lynch were charged with having indecently assaulted Ethel Sully or Phillips, a girl under the age of 14 years, on the 16th…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →William Richard Leer, aged 18 years of age, was charged .with having assaulted Edith Payne with intent to commit a rape, at Pekolbin, on the 9th November, 1897…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Sunday.—A dreadful tragedy has taken place in Paris. A workman named Carrara robbed a bank collector named La Maree, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALLAN GRACE, described as a Church of England clergyman, and wearing clerical garb, was charged at the Central Police Court with stealing two sets of chessmen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN Indian, named Noor Mahomed, was brutally assaulted and robbed in Belmore Park at an early hour this morning. Constable Pauling, while going his rounds,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALEK EKMAN, a Russian seaman (who promised Judge Backhouse the other day that he would sail in the Mary A. Troop), was charged with behaving…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →M'Laughlin and Co. v. John Elliott, claim for £1 18s, goods sold and delivered; verdict for plaintiff. Same v. Samuel Cosstick, claim for…
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