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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
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EMIL PENSEN, a seaman, charged with behaving indecently in Bolton-street on Saturday night, pleaded guilty, and was fined £1, in default…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Revision Court was held last evening for the purpose of revising the municipal lists for the ensuing year. There were present: The Mayor (Alderman Gray),…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Morris Light v. Thomas Murdoch, claiming 14s 1d for goods sold and delivered. Verdict for plaintiff, to be paid at the rate of 5s per fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE man Edward Donnelly, who was shot by Detective Roche on Saturday night on the Randwick-road, while he was endeavouring to escape arrest, la progressing favourable in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WILLIAM H. Burchell, aged 19, and Charles Burchell, aged 10 years, were charged with stealing a £1 note from the residence of Charles Baker,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JOHN KELLY, George Thomas, and Walter Appleby, charged with travelling to Newcastle by the steamer Namoi without paying their fares,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FREDERICH CHILDE, 13 years of age, was charged with having no lawful visible means of support. On the application of the police, a remand for one day was granted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THOMAS COLLIER, hailing from Teralba, was charged with being drunk on the 15th inst. He was fined 5s, 4s 10d costs, or four days. A second charge of obscene language was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT the Central Police Court this morning John James Tierney, a groom, appeared to answer a charge of assaulting Daniel Cain. Cain was drunk and disorderly in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CHAS, OLSEN, a seaman, for offending against decency in Watt-street, was fined £2, in default 14 days. Fred[?], Bundle, for drunkenness in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Revision Court for dealing with the electrical roll and list was held yesterday, before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M., at the courthouse. Mr. W. Harris, registrar, submitted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →UNICK WILLIAMS was charged, on an information laid by Constable Kinane, with using indecent language at new Lambton on the 11th inst. he pleaded guilty, and was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ONE day while we in the body of the court, were hearing some endless land case drag its slow length along, on a sudden the quiet was broken by shrill cries of " Grant justice," and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A ROME correspondent Writes :—At Reggio, Calabria, the law has just dealt with an appalling crime involving the murder of a husband under…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Messrs. O. F. Scott, P.M., Henry Crothers and Alex. Wilkinson, occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police court yesterday. An inebriate was fined 5[?] with the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE charge against the boys James German and John Walton, for having so lawful place of abode, was withdrawn, as the father of Gorman and the mother of Walton arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JOHN MURRAY, Joseph Allinson, Geo. A. Johns, and James Norton, charged with drunkenness, pleaded guilty, and were each fined 6s, in default the rising of the Court…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JAMES ROBERTS, a painter, pleaded guilty to being drunk in John-street on the 31st January. Constable Holt deposed to the offence, and a fine of 5s, or 24 hours, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EDWARD TRAVIS, on bail, was charged with being drunk in Hunter-street, and pleading guilty, was fined 10s, in default three days. William Marsden, a seaman, was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. John Burke was charged with travelling in…
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