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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1880

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Action for Libel against the E. News. Jury Court.—(Before his Honor Mr. Justice Windeyer and a jury of four.) O'CONNOR V. Bennett and Others

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 August 1880 · page 4

Jury: Messrs. Joseph Kavanagh, William Nicholson, Michael Geoghegen, and John G. Hanks. Mr. M. H. Stephen, Q.C., Mr…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 August 1880 · page 3

ONE drunkard was fined 5s., with the usual default, yesterday. James Wilson, a seedy-looking youth, aged about twenty, and said to have been lately an inmate of…

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District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 August 1880 · page 2

INTENDING litigants would do well to take notice that the next District Court at Newcatle will be held on Monday the 30th inst. The last day for issuing plaints…

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TELEGRAMS. The Late Assault on a Newspaper Proprietor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 August 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday—The person who committed the assault upon the proprietor of the Monaro Mercury is one of the proprietors of the Express…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 August 1880 · page 2

STANLEY SMITH, yesterday, pleaded guilty to cruelly ill-treating a horse, viz., by working it with sore shoulders, was fined 20s. and 12s 4d costs…

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The Supreme Court Robbery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 August 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Irwin, charged with stealing documents from the Supreme Court, after several remands, has been dismissed…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 August 1880 · page 4

MR. BUCHANAN, P.M., Mr. G. Tully, and Dr. Morgan, J.P., presided at the Police Court, yesterday. Patrick Carlan charged, at the instance of the Inspector of…

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Daring Attempt at Burglary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 August 1880 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—A daring attempt at burglary was made on Hafer's jewellery shop, George-street, yesterday morning. It was frustrated by the plucky conduct…

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Temporary Supreme Court Judge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 August 1880 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—At a meeting of the Executive Council, Mr. Justice Wyndeyer was re-appointed Temporary Supreme Court Judge for a further period of twelve…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, 7Th August, 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 August 1880 · page 3

DRUNKENNESS.—Henry Williams, a coloured man, who had several times been convicted for drunkenness, was fined 20s, in default seven days, for a repetition…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, August 9, 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. G. Tully, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 August 1880 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS.—A batch Of nine inebriates arrested since the previous sitting of the court were dealt with. Several of the number who had been in…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 August 1880 · page 2

THE business at the police court yesterday was nominal. Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Captain O'Sulivan, J.P., adjudicated. One drunkard was dealt with, and a…

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Police Prepare for Mischief

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 August 1880 · page 3

Shortly after receiving the sign from the prisoner Mrs. Skillian, Hart, and Lloyd left for Wangaratta, where Kate Kelly and nearly all the sympathisers have betaken themselves…

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Incidents in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 August 1880 · page 3

BEECHWORTH, Tuesday.—Dick Hart appeared in Court again yesterday, and when the prisoner observed him they smiled to each other. The prisoner…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, 11Th August, 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 August 1880 · page 2

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—James Anderson pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly in Perkin-street. Fined 10s., in default 48 hours. Mary Ryan, charged with…

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Raymond Terrace. Police Court. Friday, August 6Th, 1880. (Before C. R. Middleton, P.M., Dr. Inglis, J. R. Fenwick, M. J. Parnell, J. Shelly, and G. T. Carmichael, Esqs., J.P.'s)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 August 1880 · page 4

The resignation of G. G. Street as Pound-keeper, Raymond Terrace Pound, was accepted and James Barnes appointed as his successor. A Hawkers License was granted…

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Insolvency Court, Sydney Tuesday, August 10. (Before his Honor the Chief Commissioner.) SHEPHERD V. DIBBS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 August 1880 · page 3

J. C. Dibbs, re-examined, deposed: I bought James Brown's half sh[?]re in the New Lambton Colliery: the other half was held by the late Alexander Brown, and is now held by the…

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Police Magistrate for Copeland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 August 1880 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Charles De Beas has been gazetted police magistrade at Copeland…

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Aggravated Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 August 1880 · page 5

AT the Police Court, yesterday morning (before Mr. Buchanan, P.M.), Stephen Merrige, second officer of the steamship Beagle, was charged with having…

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District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 August 1880 · page 5

TUESDAY next being the last day for issuing plaints for the ensuing District Court at Newcastle, litigants would do well to attend to their requirements in…

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