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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 · Wednesday 26 November 1879 · page 2

THE following cases were heard at the Police Court yesterday, before Lieut. Colonel Maunsell, Mr. W. K. Lochhead, and Mr. G. Tully, J's.P. John Browerd, charged with…

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Police Court. Tuesday, November 25, 1879. (Before Messrs. S. S. Vale, J. Y. Neilson, and Jas. Bir[?]ell, J.P.'s)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 November 1879 · page 3

John Davidson, on warrant, was charged with assaulting and beating his wife, Jane Davidson, at New Lambton, on the 23rd inst. Pleaded not guilty. Constable…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 November 1879 · page 3

AT the Newcastle Police Court, yesterday, the business for hearing was but slight. Messrs. G. Tully and W. K. Lochhead, J.'s,P., adjudicated, and disposed of the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, 27th NOVEMBER, 1879. (Before Mr. G. Tally, J.P., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 November 1879 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS—Two drunkards were fined. STEALING A COAT.—Albert Dulton was charged with having stolen a coat, value £1, the property of Thomas Rae. The case was…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 5

At the Police Court, yesterday, (before Mr. Exhanan, P. M., and Dr. Morgan, J.P.,) Alexander Bankier, for keeping an unregistered dog, at Bullock Island, was fined 10s…

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, November 27. (Before J. J. Hill and S. S. Vale, Esqs., J.P.'s.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 8

STEALING TOBACCO.—Francis Huclen, under arrest by Constable Daily, was charged with stealing 6lbs of tobacco, value 20s, the property of William Turner, of Wallsend, at…

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LOCAL & GENERAL. Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 December 1879 · page 2

THE undermentioned prisoners were charged, on Saturday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and remanded till Monday morning:—James Kelly and John Burgeland, resisting…

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Extraordinary Proceedings in the Supreme Court. in Banco. (Before their Honors Mr. Justice Hargrave, Mr. Justice Faucett, and Sir William Manning.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 December 1879 · page 3

EX PARTE DIBBS AND OTHERS, IN RE BROWN AND ANOTHER VERSUB DIBBS AND OTHERS. ON Friday afternoon an application was made by the defendants in the above suit to…

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Newcastle Police Court

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

AT the Police Court, yesterday, (before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., Mr. J. Tully, J P., and Mr. W. Robson, J.P.), Avery Olsen, for having aided and abetted a prisoner to resist…

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Newcastle District Court. Monday, 1St December, 1879. (Before His Honor Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson.)

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

THE Newcastle District Court opened yesterday morning at the court house, before his Honor Judge Wilkinson. The members of the Bar present were—Messrs. Simpson,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, 2nd DECEMBER, 1879. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 December 1879 · page 2

A VIRAGO.—Elizabeth Geo was charged with having been drunk and disorderly, making use of obscene language, and with having assaulted Constable O'Meara whilst…

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Newcastle District Court. Tuesday, December 2, 1879

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 December 1879 · page 2

THE Court resumed its sittings at 10 o'clock. The adjourned case, Wilson v. the Newcastle Borough Council, was resumed. George Hannaford, a contractor, deposed…

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Police and the Wanta Badgery Bushrangers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 December 1879 · page 3

[?] o'clock on Tuesday afternoon the [?]litan police were paraded at the [?]s. About eighty men were present, [?] being found practicable to withdraw a…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 December 1879 · page 2

AT the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. Geo. Tully, J.P. The following business was disposed of. Hay Stuart, on remand, was, on…

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Newcastle District Court. Wednesday, 3Rd December, 1879. (Before his Honour Judge Wilkinson.) LAMBURN V. CAVANDER

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 December 1879 · page 2

An action for trespass, in which £10 damages were claimed. Mr. Wallace appeared for plaintiff; Mr. R. W. Thompson for defendant…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 December 1879 · page 5

AT the Police Court, yesterday, (before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Dr Morgan, J.P.), in a case the Inspector of Nuisances v. John Creswick, the defendant was charged with…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 December 1879 · page 2

MR. BUCHANAN, P.M., presided at the Newcastle Police Court on Saturday morning last. Thomas Marsh, for having wilfully damaged a door, the property of David…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 December 1879 · page 2

AT the Newcastle Police Court, yesterday (before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. George Tully. J.P.), the following business was disposed of: Four drunkards paid the penalty…

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TRIAL of the Bushrangers. Central Criminal Court.—monday

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

Constable Hedley under examination. Cross-examined by Scott: The first thing he heard Scott say at Wantabadgery was—"Fire! fire!" he did not think that Scott…

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Police Court

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

AT the Newcastle Police Court, on Wednesday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P., in the case, James Rowe v. John Johnson, a claim for wages,…

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