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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1879

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, 9Th Sept., 1879. (Before Mr. G. Tully, J.P., and Mr. T. O'Sullivan, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 September 1879 · page 2

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Two prisoners, charged with this offence, were each fined 10s or forty-eight hours' imprisonment. ILLEGALLY ABSENTING.—A seaman of the…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 September 1879 · page 2

AT the Newcastle Police Court, yesterday, before Messrs. Tully and Lochhead, J P.'s, the following business was disposed of:—Five inebriates were fined in the customary…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 September 1879 · page 2

MESSRS. Tully and Dibbs, J.P.'s, adjudicated at the Newcastle Police Court, yesterday. The business was very alight. Two drunkards were fined. Ah Kune, a…

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Water Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 September 1879 · page 2

THE following has been kindly handed to us for publication.—"Department of Public Works, Sydney, 3rd September. 1879. Sir,—Referring to your personal representations on…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday 12Th September, 1879. (Before Lieut. Col. Maunsell, P.M., and Dr. C. W. Morgan, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 September 1879 · page 8

FALES P[?]ETENCES.—John Andrew Bellamy, a respectable-looking young man, in custody, was charged with having, by means of false pretences, obtained from Henry Buchanan,…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 September 1879 · page 2

AT the Police Court, yesterday morning, before Lieut..Col. Maunsell, P.M., and Mr. Tully, J.P., one case of drunkenness, and one of protection was dealt with.—Before a…

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Newcastle District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 September 1879 · page 3

THE following interpleader cases were heard at Newcastle, on Saturday last, before his Honor Judge Dowling. In the case (Gourley v. Lindsay),…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, 16Th September, 1879. (Before Lieut.-Col. Maunsell, P.M., and Mr. G. Tully, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 September 1879 · page 3

FAISE PRETRNCES. John Andrew Bellamy as brought up on two separate charges of saving obtained money by false pretences in the first case the evidence of Henry Giles,…

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Local and General. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 September 1879 · page 2

YESTERDAY being a proclaimed public holiday, there was no regular sitting of the Newcastle Police Court. Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P., attended in the morning, and disposed of…

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Yesterday's Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 September 1879 · page 2

AT the Police Court yesterday, before Lieut.-Col. Maunsell, P.M., and Mr. G. Tully, J.P., the following was the business disposed of. Henry Holmes, charged with having used…

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Attempted Murder Through Jealousy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 September 1879 · page 3

A SHOCKING tragedy, the result of jealousy, occurred at Surrey-street, Darlinghurst, at a late hour on Tuesday night. It appears that a Chinaman named Moy Sue, a cabinetmaker…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1879 · page 4

BEFORE Lieutenant-Colonel Maunsell, P.M. at the Newcastle Police Court, yesterday, the following business was dispo-ed [?] Henry Holmes, for having been drunk [?]…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, 23Rd Sept., 1879. (Before Dr. C. W. Morgan, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 September 1879 · page 2

STEALING COAL.—Daniel Edward Poole and Robert Kerr wore both charged with having stolen a quantity of coal, the property of the N. C. M. Company. Both…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, Sept. 22nd 1879. (Before Lieutenant Colonel Maunsell, P.M., and Mr. G. Tully, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 September 1879 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS,—Three inebriates were brought up and fined. OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—James McKenzie, who was also fined for being drunk, was…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, 23Rd September, 1879. (Before Lieut.-Col. Maunsell, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 September 1879 · page 2

LARCENY.—Emily Anne Watson, charged with having stolen a lady's jacket, value £1 12s 6d, the property of Eleaner Jane Yee, Tighe's Hill, pleaded not guilty. The case…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, 24Th September, 1879. (Before Lieut-Col. Maunsell, P M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 September 1879 · page 2

ASSAULT.—Ah Fat, a Chinaman, pleaded not guilty to having assaulted Ellen Marshall at Newcastle, on the 20th inst. He was convicted, and fined 5s.; costs of court, 8s.:…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 September 1879 · page 2

AT the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, before Lieut.-Col. Maunsell, P.M., and Mr. E. Parnell, J.P., the following business was disposed of:—George Smith, for making use…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, September 27Th, 1879. (Before Lieutenant-Colonel Maunsell, P.M. and Dr. C. W. Morgan, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 September 1879 · page 4

FALSE PRETENCES.—John McCarthy, arrested in Sydney by detective Camphin, was charged with having on the 19th inst., at Newcastle, by false pretences, obtained from…

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LOCAL & GENERAL. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 September 1879 · page 2

THE business at the Newcastle Police Court on Saturday last was unusually light. Lieut.-Col. Maunsell, P.M., was the presiding magistrate, and his sole duty was to mulet a…

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Vagaries of a County Court Judge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 September 1879 · page 3

MR. LEFROY, the judge of the Somersetshire County Court, has been rendering himself very conspicious lately, by his extraordinary conduct towards the…

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