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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1879

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 October 1879 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning W. Johnson, master of the lighter Ganges, pleaded guilty, before the Police Magistrate, to a breach of the Harbour Regulations, by allowing coal to…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Wednesday, October 15, 1879. [?] his Honor Mr. Justice Windeyer)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 October 1879 · page 3

[?] Maitland Circuit Court opened at East [?] yesterday, before his Honor Mr. [?] Windeyer. Mr. Healy prosecuted [?] of the Crown, Mr. H. H. Ould…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, October 16, 1879. (Before Lieut Col. Maunsell, P.M., and G. Tully, Esq., J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 October 1879 · page 2

DISOBEDIENCE OF LAWFUL COMMANDS.—Four seamen, convicted of the above offence, on board the steamer Glenelg, were fined £1 4s 4d each, and ordered to be sent on board…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Second Day, Friday, October 16, 1879. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Windeyer)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 October 1879 · page 2

THE Court re-opened, and his Honor took his seat at 9 a.m. RIOT AND ASSAULT. David Beveridge and Henry Thomas, on…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 October 1879 · page 4

AT the Police Court yesterday (before Lieut.-Col. Maunsell, P.M.), Sarah Smith alias Ellen Welsh, charged with using indecent language, was fined 40s. or two months'…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Friday, October 17, 1879. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Windeyer)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 October 1879 · page 5

THE Court resumed its sittings at 9 a.m., and the following cases were heard. INTIMIDATION. Thomas Palmer and David Weishart, on…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 October 1879 · page 2

IN our summary of proceedings at the above Court in Saturday's issue, a case was wrongly reported. A man named John Nelson was committed for trial on the charge of illegally…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1879 · page 2

AT the Newcastle Police Court yesterday (before Lieut.-Col. Maunsell, P.M., Mr. G. Tully, J.P., and Mr. Robson, J.P.), the following cases were heard. Thomas Oscar…

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District News. Plattsburg. Plattsburg Police Court. Monday, October 20. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. J. Y. Neilson, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1879 · page 3

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—John McLaren was charged with attempting to drown himself in a water hole, at Brookstown, on the 15th instant. Joseph Green stated that he heard…

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Maitland Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 October 1879 · page 2

THE following are the results of the cases on the civil side of the Maitland Circuit Court, held before his Honor Sir William Manning:—Mann v. Cox, an nation for ejectment…

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Lambton Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 October 1879 · page 3

[?] Tuesday, October 21st, before J. [?] Esq., P.M., [?] Maddeek was charged with assaulted [?] beating one John Gordon, at…

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Ensuing District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 October 1879 · page 2

A DISTRICT COURT will be held at Newcastle on Monday the 1st December next. The last day for issuing plaints the to be heard will be Tuesday, the 18th November…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 October 1879 · page 2

LIEUT.-COL. MAUNSELL, P.M., and Mr. G. Tully, J.P., were the adjudicating magistrates at the Newcastle Police Court yesterday. The following business was disposed…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 October 1879 · page 5

AT the Police Court, yesterday, before the Police Magistrate, Lieut.-Col. Maunsell, Edward Burns, an artist, was brought up for protection, in consequence of his being in…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 October 1879 · page 2

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MAUNSELL, P.M., and Dr. Morgan, J.P., presided at the Newcastle Police Court, on Saturday. The following business was transacted: Mary Close pleaded…

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The Police Magistracy of Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 October 1879 · page 2

THE Armidale Express has the following paragraph:—"We notice that Mr. James Buchnaan, who has fulfilled the duties of police magistrate at Armidale for many years,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, 27th OCTOBER, 1879. (Before Lieut. Colonel Maunsell, P.M., and Mr. George Tully, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1879 · page 3

DRUNKENNESS.—Three offenders were dealt with. VAGEANCY.—Ellen Wye, charged with having on visible means of support, was…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 October 1879 · page 2

AT the Newcastle Police Court, yesterday (before Lieut. Colonel Maunsell, P.M., and Mr. G. Tully, J.P.) one defendant, charged with a breach of the municipal by laws, by…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1879 · page 2

AT the Police Court, yesterday, there were only two cases for hearing. The cross-summons case, Richard Burke v John Moore, and John Moore v Richard Burke, for assault,…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 October 1879 · page 2

AT the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, (Before Lieut. Colonel Maunsell, P.M, and Mr. George Tally, J.P., three drunkards (two males and one female) were fined…

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