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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1879

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 5

AT the Police Court, yesterday, (before Lieutenant-Colonel Maunsell, P.M., and Dr. Morgan, J.P.,) William Adams, and George A. Sinclair, were brought up for…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 November 1879 · page 2

AT the Police Court, yesterday (before Lieut.-Col. Maunsell, P. M. and Mr. G. Tully. J.P.), five drunkards were fined. One defendant, for indecent exposure, in having bathed…

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The Murder of Major Cavagnari

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 November 1879 · page 2

VIEWING the late tragic events at Cabul in the light just thrown upon them by the electric telegraph, it is curious to see how universally fallacious were the…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 November 1879 · page 2

AT the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, before Lieutenant-Colonel Mausell, P.M., and Mr. G. Tully, J P., the following cases were heard: A case, George Jones v. J. A…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 November 1879 · page 2

AT the Police Court, yesterday morning (before the P.M., Lieut. Col. Maunsell, and Mr. G. Tully, J.P.), the following cases were disposed of: Four bacchantes were charged…

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Murder of an Officer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 November 1879 · page 3

Simla, October 1.—Lieutenant Kinloch, 12th Bengal Cavalry, was murdered about 11 o'clock on the 30th September, while on his way to join his regiment. A velley was fired…

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Contempt of Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 November 1879 · page 2

THE bill introduced into the Legislative Assembly last week to provide that contempt of court in certain cases shall hereafter be punishable only as indictable offences, enacts…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 November 1879 · page 2

AT the Police Court, yesterday (before Lieutenant Colonel Maunsell, and Mr. G. Tully, J.P. the following business was disposed of: Four drunkards were dealt…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 November 1879 · page 2

AT the Police Court yesterday, before the P.M. and Mr. G. Tully, J.P., the business consisted of mulcting two drunkards in the usual sums. John Allen, charged with…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 November 1879 · page 5

LIEUT.-Colonel Maunsell, P.M., disposed of the following business at the Newcastle Police Court yesterday. Charles Hogg pleaded guilty to a charge of furious driving…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 November 1879 · page 2

AT the Newcastle Police Court, on Saturday, before Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P., the business disposed of consisted of the fining of one defendant for having made use of obscene…

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District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 November 1879 · page 2

WE are requested to notify that the last day for taking out summonses for the District Court will be Tuesday, the 18th (to-morrow). The Court will be opened on the 1st of…

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Daring Highway Robberies Between Wagga Wagga and Gundagai. Desperate Encounter with the Police. Two Bushrangers Shot Dead, Two Badly Wounded, and Two Others Surrendered. Sydney, Monday, 4 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 November 1879 · page 2

YESTERDAY evening seven men stuck up Oura Hotel. They then proceeded to Wantabadgery Station, twenty-eight miles from Gundagai and twenty-five from Wagga…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, 17Th November. (Before Lieut.-Colenel Maunsell, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1879 · page 3

WAGES—In the case Robert George Tyler Thomas Rose, a claim for £1 14s 4d, work [?]bour done, a plea of not indebted was [?] Verdict for plaintiff for 16s, with…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 November 1879 · page 3

AT the Police Court, yesterday (before Mr. G. Tully, and Mr. E. A. White, J's.P.), Charles Macroom, charged with having attempted to stab one Andrew Johnson,…

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Newcastle Police Court. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 November 1879 · page 3

SIR,—In your issue of this morning, under the head of "Newcastle Police Court" (Tuesday, the 18th instant), occurs the following passage:—"This case was…

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Our New Police Magistrate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 November 1879 · page 5

THE departure of Mr. Buchanan (says the Armidale Express of Friday, the 15th inst.), after a residence in the New England district extending over a quarter of a century, and a…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 November 1879 · page 5

AT the Police Court yesterday, before Lieut.-Col. Maunsell, J.P., and Mr. C F. Stokes, J. P.—J. M 'Donald, for a breach of the by-laws, was, at the instance of the…

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Newcastle Police Court. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 November 1879 · page 3

SIR,—In re your reporter's report on my [?]s, I beg to adhere to the hour named by [?] is that at which the J.P.'s resumed their [?]tion the Bench. The P.M, was, of course,…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 November 1879 · page 3

[?]e Police Court, yesterday (before Lieut,-colonel Maunsell, G. Tully, and W. Robson, [?] the following cases were adjudicated [?] Bridget Mullally and Eliza Gray were…

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