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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1880

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 September 1880 · page 2

THE Police Court charge sheet yesterday was light; Mr. Buchanan, P.M., adjudicating. James William Henry Smith found guilty of using obscene language…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 September 1880 · page 8

AT the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Dr. Morgan, J.P., the following oases wore disposed of Robert Murphy, a seaman on bail, failed…

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LOCAL & GENERAL. Insolvency Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 September 1880 · page 2

DAVID GRACE, of Raymond Terrace' farmer, Liabilities, £70 1s 4d; assets £5, Mr. Sempill, official assignee…

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Divorce Court, Sydney. Thursday, September 9. (Before Mr. Justice Windeyer). DIBBS V. Dibbs and Blair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 September 1880 · page 3

MR. WANT, who appeared for the petitioner (J. C. Dibbs), instructed by Messrs. Daintrey and Jones, made an application for an order to exam ne…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, 18Th September,1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. Parnell, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 September 1880 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS.—A batch of inebriates were dealt with, several who had been in the cells since Saturday being discharged. Michael McKeeny, a rough-looking fellow,…

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LOCAL & GENERAL. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 September 1880 · page 2

AT the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., three inebriates were each fined 5s, with the usual alternative of twenty-four hors…

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Assault on a Dramatic Critic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 September 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—W. J. Holloyway, actor, assaulted the dramatic critic of the Adelaide Advertiser in the saloon of the Theatre of Music…

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Divorce Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 September 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In the Divorce Court, in the case Dibbs versus Dibbs, petitioner (Mr. J. C. Dibbs) was ordered to pay £500 into court, to meet costs of…

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Lambton. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 September 1880 · page 3

At the Police Court on Tuesday (before Mr. Perrott, P.M., and Messrs. T. Croudace, and Charles Thomas, J.'sP.) The there boys, Belles Dial, and Williams,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, 15Th Sept., 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead,J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 September 1880 · page 3

DRUNKENNESS.—Several drunkards were mulct in the customary sums. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Thomas Kelly pleaded guilty to being drunk and…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1880 · page 2

MR. BUCHANAN, P.M., presided at the Police Court yesterday, and disposed of the following business. Several inebriates were fined in the customary amounts…

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Murder in Africa

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1880 · page 3

Captain Carter and Mr. Cadenhead, Englishmen, attached to the Royal Bolgian Exploring Expedition in Central Africa, were murdered by the…

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Murder of a Policeman in Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1880 · page 3

ON Friday, 16th inst., two young men were surprised by the police while attempting to break into a shop. They succeeded in making their escape…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 September 1880 · page 5

AT the Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., the charge sheets were disposed of as follows:—Robort Grierson, one of the crow of the steamship…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 September 1880 · page 2

AT the Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., Elizabeth Seymour, married, was fined is for drunkenness, and for indecently exposing her person at…

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(From the Sydney Papers.) Scene in a Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 September 1880 · page 2

GUNDAGAI, Saturday.—A case of importance to innkeepers was hoard at the police court to-day. Patrick Quigley was summoned for having music and dancing…

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Confession of the Hoxton Murder'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 September 1880 · page 4

AFTER a lapse of eight years, during which time the murderer, of the old lady and her daughter, who kept a newsvendor's shop in Hoxton, has…

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Insolvent Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 September 1880 · page 2

On Friday, before the Chief Commissioner in the matter of Lotti Wilmot, a single meeting, insolvent did not appear when called upon. One debt was proved. No…

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Rumoured Murder of a Turkish Pasha

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 September 1880 · page 2

LONDON, September 17.—A telegram from Constantinople states that it is rumoured that Riza Pasha, who was recently sent at the head of a number of…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, 20Th September, 1880. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., and Mr. G. Tully, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 September 1880 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS.—Several inebriates were fined. Francis Haughey, a grey-headed offender, pleaded guilty after numerous previous convictions, and was fined 20s,…

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