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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,022 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 52
Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default imprisonment for five minutes. Matthew Byrnes (42), labourer, was fined 5s, in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A detective denies the report that Crippen had a revolver when he entered his cabin after his arrest, but states that he had a phial of an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. J. M'Kensey, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morning, and took occasion to welcome Sub-inspector Bear,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Robert Davies pleaded not guilty to a charge of having used improper language on the Wallsend Park, on the 23rd ultimo. Constable M'Donnell deposed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default imprisonment for live minutes; and one of them, John Gregory (36), seaman, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Some of Hawley Crippen's friends have instructed Mr. Arthur Newton, the well-known solicitor, to defend him on his arrival in London…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the case of William Martin v. Matilda Nuttall, of Wickham, being for 17s 6d for rent, the amount owing had been paid, and a verdict was given for 7s…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A transfer was granted of the license of the Shortland Hotel, Newcastle, from the executrices of the estate of Isabella Short, deceased, to Rose Hannah…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It was late evening when Miles opened the door of his wife's boudoir, a room in which she loved to sit if her husband were out or away. By…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During a debate in the House of Commons on the census the question arose as to the recording of religious views of people. Lord Hugh Cocil having spoken…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A writer in "The Railway and Travel Monthly" describes the police dogs which are used on the North Eastern Railway, Each dog undergoes a most elaborate…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Richard Mitchinson (47), fireman, was fined 10s, in default' three days' imprisonment, for drunkenness. Jacob Oberson (44), carpenter, and William Irons (35),…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miss Le Never companion of Crippen, who was recently arrested for the murder of his wife in London, has been offered a salary of 1000 dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court, and two others, for being…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court, Edward Sinnott (73), labourer, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →John Alexander Dickman was hanged in Newcastle Gaol yesterday for the murder of John Innes Nisbet, a bookkeeper of the Stopswood Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The raid upon the gambling club at Narragansett Pier, at Rhode Island, in the United States, was due to six informers, who were headed by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seventy thousand cloakmakers are on strike in New York. Many "blacklegs" have been brought from Chicago and elsewhere, and are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →William Page and Francis Page of Islington, trading as Page Brothers, were charged that on the 12th July, in the Waratah municipality, they were the…
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