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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,070 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 54
Three first offenders were fined 5s, with the alternative of five minutes' detention, for drunkenness. John Davis (20), seaman, pleaded guilty to behaving in a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Reginald Treloar, alias Nicholson, who was last month committed for trial on a charge of demanding money trader threats of assassination, from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The newspaper "Le Matin" states that four convicts in French Guiana escaped from prison and got lost in a forest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Remarkable detective work has revealed the fact that a schoolboy named Tiemann, who was supposed to have committed suicide in October, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Permission was granted to Robert Sharp to effect improvements to the Royal Hotel, West Wallsend, by the enlargement of the bar…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Advices received by Router from Nigeria state that a plot has been discovered to kill Mr. Amaury Talbot, Commissioner of the Calabar district,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Patrick Dever a billiard marker, and resident of West Maitland, was found in an unconscious condition shortly after, midnight on Friday evening, in a lane…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One first offender for drunkenness was fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising to the court. Remanded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An extraordinary state of affairs is reported from the Stockade at Dry Creek, which is South Australia's chief prison. For months past thefts have taken place…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Five first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each lined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes detention. Joseph Dauks (44), miner, wan lined 5s, in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The only court case set down for hearing was a children's court case of disobeying a maintenance order, but since the issue of summons, the amount…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An attempt has been made to murder King Alfonso of Spain. His Majesty was returning from a review, and was passing the Bank of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. Florence Fletcher (31), married, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →King Alfonso of Spain, describing the attack made upon him by Alegre, said: "I saw a man coming, who was armed with a revolver, which he fired…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →James Rollings, who was lying under committal in Melbourne Gaol on a charge of having wilfully murdered Alice Hudson at Carton, in February, committed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One first offender was fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention, and George Gilchrist (52), seaman, was fined 10s, in default 3 days' imprisonment,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →John Amos, the landlord of the Sun Inn, at Bedlington, barricaded himself in the house, resisting a notice to quit…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., presided at a Court for the hearing of appeals in the Branxton district of the Cessnock Shire, at the West Maitland Courthouse…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Bairnsdale sittings of the Supreme Court, presided over by Mr. Justice Cussen, to-day, Walter Anderson was found guilty of the murder of Frederick…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A verdict for the plaintiff was given in the case of H. P. Cornish and Company against Samuel Burns for the sum of £2 15s 6d, being balance due on goods…
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