Summons Cases. Alleged Assault
James Bradbury, well known in the cycle world, proceeded against Edwin Gruscott, a photographer, of the Junction, for alleged assault on 4th inst. Mr. W. A. Reid…
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Courts & crime, 1898
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Alleged Attempted Double Murder
AT a special Petiy Sessions held at North Walshom, Nortoib, Thomas Joseph Alfred Cross, a coal merchant, was brought up in custody on remand charged with attempting…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Newcastle Police Court Friday, February 11. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.M.) Drunkenness
THOMAS TRACEY, a labourer, aged 46, who was arrested by Constable Balmer for drunkenners in Scott-street, was fined 5s, or 24 hours' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Indian Frontier Trouble. Wholesale Theft of Arms
LONDON, Friday.—An official report states that all the arms captured in the frontier campaign except 15 were stolen from Indian stores and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Kidd in the Admiralty Court
WRITING in the Nautical Magazine Mr. R. G. Marsden draws attention to some details concerning Captain Kidd, the celebrated pirate, which are to be…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Newcastle Police Court Saturday, February 12. (Before Mr. J. Mair, S.M.) An Old Offender
JAMES FRASER, a labourer, who had 20 previous convictions against his name on the charge-sheet, was fined 20s, in default seven day's gaol, for…
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Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Thomas Carper was charged with neglecting to support his illegitimate child, Zata…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend Police Court. Monday, February 14. (Before Mr. J. Mair, S.m.) Unlawful Assault
ROBERT WHITERHAD was charged with unlawfully assaulting one Simon Ridley, at Wallsend, on the 12th inst. Sergeant Coghlan prosecuted of behalf of the Crown…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lambton Police Court. Monday, February 14. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.M.)
CONSTABLE EPICER, of Dudley, processded against the following persons for various offences on the 11th and 12th instant. They all pleaded guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Divorce Court. Sydney
THE sittings in Divorce were opened this morning by Mr. Justice Simpson. The case set down for hearing was that of Ellis v. Ellis, Levy co-respondent. Petitioner, C. J…
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THE fact that the responsible conductor of a Russian newspaper has sentenced to a term of imprisonment for having incited a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, February 15. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.m.) a Solitary
ARTHUR LUDLOW, for whom Mr. Dart appeared, was fined 20s, in default seven days Imprisonment, for baying been drunk and disorderly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Vice-admiralty Court. the Miowera. Sydney
THE chief Justice, sitting as Judge Commissary in Vice. Admiralty to-day had before him an application on behalf of Meesrs. J. and A. Brown for the consolidation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →International News. The Dreyfus Charges Violent Scenes. Free Fights in Court
LODON, Sunday—General Billot, the French Minister for War, has repudiated the charge of M. Rochefort that he had intrigued with M. Matthieu…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, February 16. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.M.) Desertion
A SEAMAN named Cornelius Sullivan, charged with deserting from his vessel, was sentenced to one week's imprisonment. Drunkenness, etc…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London Society Scandal. Conviction of a Peer. Sentenced to Penal Servitude
LONDON, Tuesday.—At the Central Criminal Court, Lord William Nevill appeared to several charges of fraud and forgery in connection with the…
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Messrs. G. F. Scott, P.M., Henry Crothers, Alex. Wilkinson, J. D. Prentice, G. Maher, and John Bourke, J.P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Intercolonial News. New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. Stealing
By the steamer Newcastle, which arrived from Newcastle this morning, there travelled two passengers, a man named Hans Ludwig and a woman named Mary Ann Carlssceon,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, February 17. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.m.) Language
W. CAPERTREE pleaded guilty to making use of obscene language on the 11th February. Fined 10s, 5s 6d costs. SMALL DEBTS COURT…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, February 17. (Before Mr. C. N. Payton, S.M.) Indecency
MICHAEL COSTIGAN was fined 20s or seven days' gaol for indecency in Cowper-street, Carringten, on Wednesday night…
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