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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,032 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 52
HARRY WILTON and Robert Shaw pleaded guilty to travelling from Sydney by the steamer South Australian without paying their fares. Wilton said he had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ANN JOASS, an old lady 15 years of age, proceeded against her husband, Alfred Joass, six years her junior, for desertion from the 23rd November last, and claimed a weekly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YEE LEE, a hawker of vegetables, was indicted before Judge Backhouse at the Quarter Sessions on a charge of having, at Randwick, on December 16, 1897, assaulted a girl…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MICHAEL CALLAN, from Teralba, on being called failed to appear, and Sergeant Coghlan explained that since the issue of the summons the man had got injured, and he (Sergeant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HUGH HUMPHRIES, Manager of Dudley Colliery, summoned a young man named Walter Peel for a breach of the special rules, to wit, the stopping-up of an air pipe that conveyed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →EMIL HANSEN and John Arnold, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default the "rising." A Violent Seaman…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →David Morgan, of New Lambton, summoned Samuel B. Mountain for the sum of £1 18s 6d, goods sold and delivered. Verdict for plaintiff for full amount and costs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →INSPECTOR LLOYD, of the Newcastle Borough Council, made application under the Diseased Animals and Meat Act for an order of the Court for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MESSRS. G. F. Scott; P M., H. Crothers, Alex. Wilkinson, and J. D. Prentice, Js.P., occupied the Batch at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FRANK GRAHAM, a seaman, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s, in default 24 hours. Fighting in the Streets…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Inspector of nuisances of the borough of Plattsburg proceeded against John Stevens for that he did on or about the 14th January deposit a quantity of putrid fish on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FREDERICK MADDEN, who was convicted at the Quarter Sessions last week on a charge of having assaulted J. W. Donohue and robbed him of a watch and chain, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Frenchmen, giving the names of Louis Dupey and Engene Chevert, were arrested in Collingwood to-day. One of them was carrying a bag in which were gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANTHONY HUNTER, for drunkenness on the wharf, pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s, in default 24 hours. Maggie Bullock and Billy Morgan, for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A SHOCKING tragedy occurred at Glen Osmond this morning, when Elver S Fry, aged 35, employed in the Engineer in-Chief's Department, shot his wife and three daughters, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JOHN LANGWORTHY for drunkenness pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s, in default 24 hours. NO Tickets…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Previous to the opening of the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, Mr. H. P. Maher was sworn in as a Justice of the Peace before Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., under a writ…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JAMES TARRANT and Albert Randall were charged with stealing 60lb of lead from the builing in course of creation at the corner of Bolton and King street, vained at 8s, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Constable Doffell v. Ninian Nelson for having need indecent language in Bridge-street, West Wallsend. Fined 10s and 10s 4d costs, or seven days…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Re Thomas W. Smith.—Bankrupt said he was a tramway motor fireman, and had never been insolvent before, either in this colony or elsewhere. He attributed his bankruptcy to…
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