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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1880

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 5

AT the Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, PM., James Peters, charged at the instance of Inspector of Vehicles, with having ridden on his dray…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 August 1880 · page 2

ON Saturday, at the Police Court, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., one drunkard was dealt with. J. L. West, landlord of the Thistle Hotel, Watt-street, was charged…

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District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 August 1880 · page 2

THE sittings of the District Court, as litigants will be aware, commence at the Newcastle Courthouse this morning at 10 a.m. His Honor Judge Wilkinson will…

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District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1880 · page 2

THE District Court sittings commenced at the Court House yesterday, before His Honor Judge Wilkinson. The barristers present were Mr. Heydon and Mr…

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Insolvency Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—In the Insolvent Court, to-day, the Commissioner gave judgment, granting the compulsory sequestration of George R. Dibbs' estate…

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Alleged Contempt of Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—In the Supreme Court to-day, before the Chief Justice and Judges Manning and Faucett the hearing of the case against the Evening News for…

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Small Debts Court. Monday, August 80, 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. G. Tully, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1880 · page 2

COMMERCIAL BANK V. ALEX. LINDSAY.— This was a claim made by the Commercial Bank for five weeks' rent of ground in Scott-street, said to be due by defend[?]…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, August 31St, 1880. (Before the Police Magistrate and Captain T. O'Sullivan, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 September 1880 · page 2

LARCENY.—James Taylor, charged with having, at Hamilton on the 29th inst., appropriated one coat, and a vest, and hat, the property of Robert Carter, was…

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District Court. Tuesday, 31St August, 1880. (Before His Honor Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 September 1880 · page 2

His Honor took his sent at 10 a.m., and the following defended cases were called on:— CLIFF AND OTHERS (estate of Robert…

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Charge of Contempt of Court. in the Matter of the "Evening News."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 September 1880 · page 3

IN the Supreme Court on Monday, August 30, in banco, (before their Honors Sir. Jas Martin Chief Justice, Sir William Manning, and Mr. Justice Fawcett, the…

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District Court. Wednesday, September 1, 1880. (Before His Honor Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson)

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

THE District Court resumed its sittings at 10 a.m. yesterday. The following cases were called on:— ANDREW DALTON v. W. H. GALBRAITH…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 September 1880 · page 2

AT the Police Court, on Wednesday before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P., James Taylor alias Ralph, who had been sentenced for…

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Maitland Quarter Sessions. Thursday, September 2. (Before His Honor Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson)

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

THE September Quarter Sessions commenced in the Court House, East Maltland, yesterday. The legal profession was well represented…

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Police Court Fines

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

SYDNEY, Friday.—Thirty-five persons were fined five shillings each for sweeping across footpaths after 8 o'clock in the morning, twenty for driving without…

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Attempt at Murder and Suicide at Echuca

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 2

A DELIBERATELY-LAID attempt to commi[?] the crime of murder on two persons, with a sequel of suicide, occurred at Echuca East on August 29…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, Sept. 2Nd. 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. G. Tully, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 September 1880 · page 3

VAGRANCY.—Mary Cunningham, alias Brown, a young woman known as a riotous prostitute, was found guilty of vagrancy and sentenced to three months hard labour…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1880 · page 2

YESTERDAY at the Police Court, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. G. Tully, J.P., Martin O'Donnoll, for drunkenness, was fined 10s., or twenty-four hours…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 September 1880 · page 2

FREDERICK WILLIAMS and John Wilson two rough looking young men, pleaded guilty at the police court yesterday to having travelled from Sydney by the…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 September 1880 · page 3

AT the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., Thomas Jones, charged with indecent exposure in Denison-street, Hamilton, was fined 40s, in default one…

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The Supreme Court and the Evening News

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 September 1880 · page 2

OUR readers will have seen from our telegrams in Tuesday's issue that the Judges of the Supreme Court have indefinitely postponed their judgment…

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