Minmi Police Court. Wednesday, March 30. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.)
J. Walton was charged with disobeying an order for maintenance, the amount due being £6. The case was adjourned until the next court day…
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Courts & crime, 1904
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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, April 2nd. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness etc
Three first offenders for drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default to be detained until the rising, of the court. John Thornton, for a like offence at Carrington,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, April 4. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, &c
Five first offenders for drunkenness were each fined 5s, in default to be detained till the rising of the court. James Davis, charged with using obscene language in…
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At the Central Criminal Court to-day Frederick William Vickary, a middle-aged man, was charged with having broken and entered St. James' Church, King-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, April 5. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Remanded
Frank Griffith, aged 14 , years, and Walter Griffith, aged 11 years, charged with habitually wandering, about the highway, were remanded to appear at the,…
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James Greer, 4s, a seaman, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having committed a serious assault on Edward Rassmussen, at Newcastle, on the 30th March. Mr. R. Crown, instructed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, April 6. (Before Mr. F. P. Meares, D.S.M.)
On the Information of Municipal inspecler, Owen, two offenders, Ellen Clarke and Charles Lynch, were each fined 5s and 4s 10d costs for riding bicycles on the…
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Thomas Brown v. J. Pike claim 13s for goods sold and delivered. Verdict for the full amount with costs. Thomas Brown v. Mrs. G. Watson…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. WEDNESDAY, 6th MARCH. (Before Mr. F. P. Mears, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, etc
Reuben Burk was fined 5s for drunkenness in Newcastle, in default detention until the rising of the court. Dorn Griffiths pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly in…
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At the Wallsend Police Court, before Mr. Meares, S.M. William Clough pleaded guilty to having been drunk in Mary-street, Plattsburg, on the 6th inst., and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alleged Serious Assault
George Henry Lawson, 29, a labourer, was charged with having, at Dungog, on the 22nd January, Committed an assault on Mary Ann Roney, his Stepdaughter, a girl…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, March 7. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness
One first offender for drunkenness was fined in default imprisonment until the rising of the court. Evading Payment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Wilful Murder. Verdict of Manslaughter
Mary Ann Wood, 39, a laundress, was charged that she did, on the 9th January, 1904, at Newcastle, foleniously and maliciously murder Agnes Marsden. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland District Maitland Licensing Court
Messrs. E. A. L. Sharpe, R. Scoble, and Henry Crothers, L. Ms., occupied the bench at the quarterly meeting of the Maitland Licensing Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland Circuit Court. Thursday, April 7. (Before His Honor Mr. Justice Owen.)
The court was re opened this morning at ten o'clock, before his Honor Mr. Justice Owen. The Sheriff, Mr. C. E. B. Maybury, was in attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Small Debts Court. Thursday, 7th MARCH. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.)
The Singer Manufacturing Company Susan Rhoda Wells, Claim £8 10s for goods sold and delivered. Verdict for plaintiff company with 17s costs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Licensing Court. Thursday, 7th MARCH. (Before Messrs. G. F. Scott and F. P. Meares, Licensing Magistrates.) Colonial Wine Licenses
A renewal of a colonial wine license was granted to F. Witherspoon, in respect of premises situate at 157. Hunter-street, West Newcastle, and to John Windross, for premises at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Burglary
Robert Kelly, a French Canadian, was charged that he did, at Newcastle, on the 6th March, break and enter the shop of David Israel, and steal certain property…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dungog Assault Case
George Henry Lawson, who was convicted on Thursday of a serious assault on his step-daughter. Mary Ann Roney, at Dungong, on the 22nd January, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Death in the Gaol
Thomas Smith, who was serving a sentence of three mouths in Maitland Goal, for sly grog selling at Abermain, died in the gaol hospital yesterday morning, of…
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