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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1880

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, 5Th July, 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 July 1880 · page 2

DRUNK AND RESISTING.—James Anderson, a seaman, found guilty of being drunk, was fined 5s., in default, twenty-four hours; and for resisting Constable…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 July 1880 · page 2

AT the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., John Newcome, alias Clements, charged with being drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street, was…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 July 1880 · page 2

AT the Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Dr. Morgan, J.P., one inebriate was fined 5s, in default twenty-four hours. John Powell, just out…

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Defective Court Houses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 July 1880 · page 2

AT the recent Bathurst Quarter Sessions (says the Western Independent), when the first jury was, impannelled, His Honor Judge Josephson congratulated the jury…

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Cowardice of the Victorian Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 July 1880 · page 2

THE Hobart Town Mercury, of July 2, alluding to the capture of the above, this confirms our observations upon the pusillanimity of the police force in…

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A Scandal in Court. Chicago, Ili., April 9, 1880

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 July 1880 · page 4

A DESPATCH from East Saginaw, Mich., says that the city is excited over the publicity of a scandal involving the goodname of Father Vanderbom, paster of St. Mary's…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 July 1880 · page 5

AT the Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., Richard Hickey, licensed waterman, was summoned at the instance of Dr. R. Harris,…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 July 1880 · page 2

AT the Police Court, on Saturday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., Patrick Curlan, for riotous behaviour, was fined 10s, in default seven days. George Charlton,…

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Charged with Embezzlement

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 July 1880 · page 2

WILLIAM JONES, a young clerk, was charged at the Sydney Central Police Court on Friday, with having embezzled the sums of 4s, 6d., 15s., and 15s., the…

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Greta. Police Court. Saturday, July 10Th, 1880. (Before J.N. Brooks, P.M., J.B. Turnbull, J.P., and W. Farthing, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 July 1880 · page 3

ASSAULT.—P. O'Connell v. Wm. Lynham, jun. This case was remanded from the last court, and resulted in defendant having to pay the costs and being bound…

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Another Bushranging Outrage in Victoria. a Magistrate and His Family Stuck-up by a Gang of Bushrangers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 July 1880 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday. — Information has been received of another outbreak of bushranging at Edenhope, a small township twenty miles from Harrow, not far…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 July 1880 · page 3

AT the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., three inebriates were each fined 5s, in default twenty-four hours. Henry Williams (a coloured man)…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 July 1880 · page 2

MR. BUCHAMAN, P.M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P., adjudicated at the Police Court yesterday. Frederick Morton, against whom some previous charges…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 July 1880 · page 2

THE following cases were disposed of yesterday, at the Police Court, by Mr. Buchanan, P.M.:—John Hallings pleaded guilty to being drunk, fined 5s, or…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 July 1880 · page 2

AT the Police Court, on the 15th instant, before the P.M., John Reid, found guilty of having assaulted Mrs. Elizabeth Fairhall, a respectable married woman,…

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Supreme Court Robbery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 July 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—James Irwin, charged with a robbery from the Supreme Court, of documents valued at £5000, has been further remanded…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 July 1880 · page 2

AT the Police Court, on the 19th inst., before the P.M., the following business was disposed of:—Denis Sullivan, for riotous behaviour in King-street, was fined…

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TELEGRAMS. The Late Assault on Mr. Butler

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 July 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Pearson, who was charged with biting off a portion of Mr. Butler's finger (both being members of the Victoria Loftus Troupe), has been…

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Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 July 1880 · page 2

AMONGST the cases heard at the last Small Debts Court, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., the only ones of public interest were the following:—In an interpleader case…

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Murder of General Skobeloff's Mother by Nihilists

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 July 1880 · page 2

LONDON, July 20.—General Skobeloff's mother has been murdered. It is understood to be the work of a Nihilist…

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