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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
956 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 48
James Johnson (newsboy) was fined 10s. with the alternative of three days' goal for having used obscene language on the market wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A. North sued Benjamin Smith. Mr. E. Higgs. Court bailiff, deposed that he went to defendant's residence and was denied admission. He know the defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Alex. Frew applied for a renewal of his booth licenses for the Wallsend race meeting, to be held on Saturday, the 8th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the trial of Daniel Taylor, for a capital offence, and reported at length in another column, the counsel for the prosecution having addressed the jury, the Judge summed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Patrick Fox was charged that he did, at West Maitland, on the 5th December, 1898, steal one horse, the property of Edward Connell. He was also charged with having,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Maitland Circuit Court yesterday, Annie Turnbull and William Robert Tweedie were called up for sentence, and were asked if they had anything to say why…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Court was re-opened yesterday morning at 10 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Cheesman, charged with using indecent language in Regent-street, New Lambton, on the 24th of March, pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s and 4s 6d costs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →George Hemmings, charged with using obscene language, was fined 10ss, 4s 10d costs, or four days' gaol. George Swan for a like offence was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Fraham, labourer, was fined 5s, with the option of 24 hours' gaol, for having been drunk and disorderly in Throsby-street, Wickham, on the night of the 5th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The sentence as well as the verdict in the Adamstown abortion case came as a painful surprise to the friends of the female prisoner, who never expected the penalty to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The hearing of the case against Mr. H. H. Macdonnell, for forcibly entering the Lambton electric light shed on the 10th of Mairch, was resumed before Mr. C. N. Payton, S.M.,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Court re-opened at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An elderly man named Joseph Wright was charged with indecently assaulting Annie Lizzie Bond, a girl under the age of 14 years, viz., 11 years. Senior-constable Snushall…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sidney Ashwell, William Howard, James Walsh, John Edward Wilson (alias Atkinson), were fined for having been drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Walter M'Pherson proceeded against Thomas Simmonds, charging him with having, while in charge of a vehicle on the night of January 14 last, by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Robert Myers, alias Kingsmill, music teacher, was charged by warrant with having illegally pawned furniture in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →George Wallace was charged with being drunk and with being obscene language at Dudley on Monday, the 10th instant. He pleaded guilty to both offences, and a fine of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Peter Davies was charged with making use of indecent language in Nelson-street on the 4th instant. James Cuthbertson, jun., having deposed to the language used, defendant was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Rylatt was proceeded against by Mr. Batey, nuisance inspector, for a breach of the bylaws in allowing two horses to stray on the footpath in High-street on Tuesday,…
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