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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,227 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 62
An application by M. C. Power, licensee of the Misers' Exchange Hotel, Hamilton, for refund of portion of the license lee, was refused…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PETROGRAD, Friday.—A curious feature of the revolt was the strange part played by the police, who donned military overcoats and fired upon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Henry James Shoesmith (12), dealer, was charged with having stolen on Thursday a pair of boots, worth 9s 6d, the Property of the Commonwealth Shoe…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charges under the alien registration regulations of the War Precautions Act were before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M., at Newcastle Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY. Monday.—A brutal assault was made on Henry Moorehouse, fruit merchant, of the Fruit Exchange, Bathurst Street, City, this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For stealing a watch of the value of 6s 6d, the properly of B. S. Kempe and Coy., Ltd., Michael Ryan was lined £5, in default two months' hard labour in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Shepherd (31), labourer, was fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment, for having been drunk in New Lambton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two charges of wearing military boots were preferred against civilians, before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M., at Newcastle Police Court this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday.—Petrograd messages show that the people in Russia are deliriously happy. Class barriers have disappeared, and terror of the NEW YORK, Sunday.—Three American ships, the City of Memphis, illinois, and Virginia, have been sunk, it is believed, off the coast of France…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. W. J. N. Fincham, P.M., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Sarah Green, on remand, was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A special court, under the Liquor Amendment Act, for the purpose of hearing applications for the abatement of rent on licensed premises, was held yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →James Kagen, who pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, was filed 10s, or three days. One first offender, charged with drunkenness, pleaded guilty, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →For drunkenness, a first offender was [?]ned 1s or five minutes detention. Stephen Earl (62) miner, 20, or seven days, for being drunk. Robert J. May (47)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A perplexing case came before the Cessnock Petty Sessions yesterday before Mr. W. .J. N. Fincham. P.M. A deaf and dumb boy, John William…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A further remand until March 26 was granted in the case of William Ennis, a seaman, who is charged with a breach of the New Zealand War Precautions Act…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY. Wednesday.—"I plead guilty," said James Wilson, when charged at the Central Criminal Court, with having murdered George…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Re George William Burgess; railway porter, of Singleton. The single meeting of creditors lapsed, and the public examination was declared concluded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Somerville, George Millard, Alfred Bull, and C. Moore were each filed 10s, with 6s costs, for riding bicycles on the footpaths in Clara and Fawcett…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Considerable public interest was evinced in a case heard at Kurri Kurri Petty Sessions by Mr. W. J. M. Fincham. P.M., yesterday, when William Arthur Daley,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two first offenders were fined is, or five minutes' detention, for drunkenness. A Sore Horse Worked. John Heffernan, 77, admitted that he had…
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