The Lisson Assault. Sydney
In No. 2 Jury Court this morning, Henry Montague Mordaunt sued Napoleon Jean Lisson for £2000 damages for assault. It was alleged by plaintiff that Lisson had…
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Courts & crime, 1899
956 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 48
The Scott-street Gambling House Police Court Proceedings. the Principals Fined
Before Mr. C. N. Paytes, S.M., at the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, the principals, who were arrested on Saturday night when the police raided a gaming…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, March 28. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.m.) Drunkenness
John M'Lennan, miner, was fined for drunkenness in Burwood-street, and Patrick Shannon for having been in the same state on the market wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murder and Attempted Suicide. Melbourne
A singular murder was committed at Fisherman's Bend this afternoon when a woman named Alice Maud Jephson drowned her little son, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, March 29. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.m.) Drunkenness
John Dillon (fireman) and Christopher Wakefield (seaman) were fined for having been drunk. ASSAULT…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Terrible Butchery. Triple Murder and Suicide. ADELAIDE
George Burgess, a master baker, living at Kilkenny, killed his wife and two children this morning with a butcher's cleaver. He afterwards cut his own throat and died…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Greta Police Court. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., and Mr. A. Pryor, J.p.) Wednesday, March 29. Breach of License
Noah Palmer, licensee of Tattersall's Hotel, Greta, was charged with keeping his licensed premises open for the sale of liquor on Sunday, the…
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At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Mr. R. F. Graham, J.P., a man named O'Brien was charged with stealing 19s, the property of J. N. Jones, at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Scientific Burglary
In the matter of inventive genius the modern criminal seems to take a full share. The very highest development of the science of burglary is represented in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, March 30. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.m.) Drunkenness
Patrick Foley (seaman) was fined for having been drunk in Wolfe-street…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Small Debts Court Thursday, March 30. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.M.)
Judgments were given as follow:— Newcastle Borough Council v. Mrs. E. Ford, claim 6s 10d, rates due; verdict for plaintiff with 5s costs…
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At the Newcastle Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M., Erie Wallberg was fined 5s, with the option of 24 hours' gaol, for having been drunk and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, April 3 (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.m.) Drunkenness
Christopher Leonard (labourer), Joseph Guimeras, Conrad Carlson (seamen), and Ellen Doyle were each fined for having been drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, April 4. (Before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.m.) Drunkenness
Andrew Anderson, seaman, for f[?]ing been found drunk on the wharf, was [?]dmonished and discharged. DESERTION…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, April 5. (Before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.m.) Drunkenness
Andrew Anderson (seaman), who was admonished and discharged on Tuesday morning, was again charged with drunkenness, and was fined 10s, with the alternative of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend Police Court. Wednesday, April 5. (Before Mr. Payten, S.m.) a Sad Case
Mrs. Mary Jane Wilson, from Teralba, was charged with attempting suicide on Sunday morning, the 2nd instant. From the evidence, it would seem that the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maitland Circuit Court. (Before His Honor Mr. Justice Owen.)
The April sittings of the Maitland Circuit Court were opened at the Courthouse, East Maitland, yesterday morning, at 10 o'clock, before his Honor Mr. Justice Owen…
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John Hopkins, on being examined, merely answered the usual questions. The cause of bankruptcy was sickness in family and slackness of work. His average earnings for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, April 6. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.m.) Drunkenness
Dennis Scanlan, from Teralba, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in William-street, Teralba, on the 3rd inst. Constable Fallon deposed to the disorderly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Abuse of the Police
At the trial of the woman Turnbull and the man Tweedie at the Maitland Circuit Court yesterday, one feature of the proceedings was the sustained…
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