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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
956 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 48
John Gallagher, seaman, was fined 10, with the option of three days' imprisonment, for drunkenness and disorderly conduct; and £1, in default…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Messrs. G. F. Scott, P.M., and P. Bourke, J.P., occupied the Bench at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. Frederick John Burke, on bail, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Australia has had a surfeit of murders lately, and public interest in these occurrences is deadened. But there has been an apparently insignificant case at Mansfield…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Annie Smith was charged, on an information laid by Constable Spicer, with using obscene language at Dudley on the 7th instant. She pleaded guilty, and was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charles M'Ewen and James Fitzpatrick (seamen) were fined for drunkenness. RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR. Thomas Wilson (bootmaker) was fined 10s,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Appeals against the assessments of the New Lambton municipality were heard at the Courthouse on Friday. The council clerk (Mr. H. J. Noble)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Jones, labourer, was fined 5s, with the alternative of 24 hours' gaol, for drunknness in Hunterstreet…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Messrs, G. F. Scott P. M., H. Crothers, C. E. Nicholson, and M. P. Maher, Js. P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →George Ford and William. Davies were charged, on an information laid by Constable Spicer with stealing in company, on the 30th of April, a bunch…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mrs. Agnes Hancock sued Solomon Hancock to have him bound over to keep the peace. Mrs. Hancock deposed that some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charles Seaby (labourer) was fined 10s, with the option of three days goal, for drunkenness in Church-street; and on Charles Bullen (labourer) a like penalty…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Monday.—Mrs. Anna George, who was arrested on a charge of murdering Mr. George Saxton, brother of Mrs. M'Kinley, the wife of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 4 o'clock on Sunday, afternoon four young men, named Matthew Seymour, Michael Seymour, Michel-Faugney, and Alfred Joseph Stollery, went to the Settlers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →James Fraser and Charles Pearson, old offenders, were fined £1, with the option of a week's gaol, for drunkenness on the night of the 2nd inst…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A court of appeal against assessments made for the year by the Adamstown Municipal Council was conducted at the Newcastle courthouse by Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John M'Conville, seaman, and Paul M'Donnell, labourer, were each fined for drunkenness. INDECENT LANGUAGE…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The only business was a few small doubts. The Plattsburg Council obtained verdicts in two cases before the Court, and in two garnishee orders the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The public examination was declared closed in— Re William George Davis, miner. Bankrupt, who attributed his failure…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The license of the Hunt Club Hotel was transferred from Madame Krieser to Frederick George Haines. POSTPONED…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Michael Maher was charged on an information laid by Constable Kinane with behaving in a riotous manner at New Lambton on the 23rd April. He…
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