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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1879

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TRIAL of the BUSHRANGERS Convicted and Sentenced to Death. SYDNEY, Thursday, 1.50 p.m

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

THE Criminal Court resumed this morning at half-past nine. Mr. Justice Windeyer is now summing up. The excitement outside the Court is very…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 December 1879 · page 2

AT the Newcastle Police Court, on the 12th instant, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M, and Mr. Thos. Brooks, J.P., one drunkard was fined. S. J. Willismson, found guilty of having…

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Matrimonial and Divorce Causes Court, Sydney. Friday. (Before his Honor Mr. Juslice Windeyer.) Dibbs V. Dibbs and Blair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 December 1879 · page 2

This was a petition brought by the respondent in the suit, Mrs. Dibbs, for alimony, pendente lite from the 27th of September last. The right to alimony was not opposed;…

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Newcastle Police Court

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

AT the Police Court, yesterday, before the Police Magistrate, Richard Bennett, for being drunk on the Public Wharf, at Newcastle, was fined 5s, with the alternative of 24 hours…

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Escape of Sixteen Convicts From New Caledonia. Seizure of a Schooner and Murder of the Captain. Noumea, Thursday Evening

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

THE dull routine of Noumean existence was broken this evening by the painful intelligence that between 4 and 5 p.m. some convicts had escaped from Isle Nou in a schooner…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 December 1879 · page 5

AT the Newcastle Police Court on Thursday before Mr. Tully, J.P., a warrant was ordered to issue for the arrest of Isaac Norris, who failed to appear in answer to a charge…

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Delays in the Insolvency Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 December 1879 · page 5

A CORRESPONDENT writes complaining of the delay which he experienced in the Insolvency Court, Newcastle, on Wednesday. A meeting was called for 11 a.m., in the estate of F. J…

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The Ebenezer Sunday School Assault Case

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

AT the Quarter Sessions, resumed on Saturday morning, James Carter John Allen surrendered to his bail to answer a charge of maliciously wounding with intent to do…

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Police Court

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

AT the Police Court yesterday (before Messrs. Robson and Tully. J P.), William Pooley, charged with having stolen a broken iron chair, the property of the Railway…

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Small Debts Court

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

AT the Newcastle Small Debts Court yesterday, before Messrs. Robson and Tully, J.P.'s, the following business was disposed of:—The case Cooper v. Tyler, claim for £2 5s, was…

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Assault by a Clergyman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 December 1879 · page 3

A CASE of some interest was heard in the Melbourne County Court yesterday (says the Age), before a special jury. A young lady named Teresa Glazier sued the Rev. Father…

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Police Court. Thursday, December 18th, 1879. (Before Mr. Perrott, P.M., and Mr. J. Birrell, J P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 December 1879 · page 5

William Cross, drunk and disorderly, discharged with a caution. John Lewis, same offence, discharged with a caution. SUMMONS CASE.—Mary Duin v. John…

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Murder of an Actress

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 December 1879 · page 2

Mdlle. Gabriella Morales, an actress, has been shot in her apartments in the Rue de Berry, Paris, by Eugene Riaudel, a man of good family from…

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Newcastle Police Court

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

AT the Police Court, on the 23rd inst., before Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P., William Watson, for indecent exposure, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Two drunkards were…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 December 1879 · page 2

AT the Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. Robson, J.P., the following cases were disposed of: William Stone, married, was charged with having…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, December 30, 1879. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 December 1879 · page 2

LARCENY, UNDER 40s.—Frederick Morton, on remand, was charged with having stolen a blue blanket, value 4[?]s, the property of John O'Sullivan, at Newcastle, on or about the…

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The Murder by a Chinaman at Tamworth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 December 1879 · page 2

IN connection with the brutal murder of a woman, which our telegraphic columns announces to have taken place at Tamworth, a gentleman who was present and saw the…

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