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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1881

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Another Irish Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1881 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—A farmer has been brutally murdered near Dublin…

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A Horrible Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1881 · page 2

A horrible murder has just been discovered in Hungary. Outside the village of Verooze, a basket was found, containing the head of a woman…

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An Undiscovered Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1881 · page 5

LAST Monday morning (says the Yass Courier) the body of an old man, named James M'Connochie, who kept a store at Harden railway station, was found lying…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, June 24th, 1881. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1881 · page 8

DRUNKENNESS.—One offender was dealt with. FURIOUS DRIVING.—John Hardy charged with furious driving at Tighe's Hill…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, June 24th. 1881. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 June 1881 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS.—One offender pleaded guilty, and was fined in the customary amount. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Thomas…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1881 · page 2

MR. BUCHANAN, P.M., disposed of the Police Court business yesterday. Several drunkards were dealt with. Robert Williams, for riotous behaviour, was fined…

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The Murder of the Chinese Lad in Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1881 · page 2

THE two boys Hall, who, charged with the murder of the Chinese lad, Tommy Wing Hock, are lodged in the Ballarat gaol, were visited on Wednesday (says the…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1881 · page 2

THERE was only case for hearing at the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M. William Moy, arrested on warrant in Sydney, charged with wife…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 June 1881 · page 2

AT the Police Court yesterday (before Mr. Buchanan, P.M.), the following cases were disposed of:—Five inebriates were fined or otherwise dealt with. Antonie Walker,…

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Horrible Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 June 1881 · page 2

LONDON, June 28.—A revolting murder has been committed on the Brighton railway line. The victim, who is unknown, was found in a tunnel, stabbed deeply in…

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LOCAL & GENERAL. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 July 1881 · page 2

THERE WSS only one case set down for hearing at the police court yesterday. Thomas Dudley, arrested on warrant for neglecting to appear in answer to…

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CABLEGRAMS. Sensational Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 July 1881 · page 2

LONDON, June 28.—The revolting murder on the Brighton railway line, from the air of mystery and the peculiar circumstances surrounding it, has created an…

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Midhat Pasha Sentenced to Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 July 1881 · page 4

Midhat Pasha, Mahomet Damad, and seven other prisoners, including Mustaphas and Fabri Bey, have been condemned to death for the murder of the late Sultan,…

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Newcastle Police Court Friday, 1St July, 1881. (Before Messrs. W. K. Lochhead, and T. Brooks, J.'sP.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 July 1881 · page 5

DRUNKENNESS.—Richard Clark, a labourer, for drunkenness, was fined 5s or twenty-four hours. A charge of profane language was dismissed…

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LOCAL & GENERAL. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 July 1881 · page 2

BUSINESS at the police court on Saturday was slight. Anthony Smith, charged with having stolen a black and tan slut, the property of James Stevens at the…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 July 1881 · page 2

AT the Police Court, yesterday, seven drunkards, including "Nancy," an aboriginal, were dealt with. Thomas Hewitt, drunk and, disorderly, was fined 10s., or…

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LOCAL & GENERAL. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 July 1881 · page 2

JOHN JONES, charged with using obscene language on the wharf, was the only offender brought before the court yesterday. He was fined 10s; in default…

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The Attempt to Murder the American President

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 July 1881 · page 2

WHEN Sir JOHN ROBERTSON closed his excellent address at Grafton a few days since, with a recommendation to his hearers to peruse the life of…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 July 1881 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, at the Police Court yesterday, the following business was disposed of:—"Billy," an aboriginal, decked in all the glory of a…

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Murder of a Doctor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 July 1881 · page 2

ON Sunday night, 3rd instant, at the Nymagee Copper Mine, Euabalong, a doctor named Giddings was murdered by a Frenchman, whose name is unknown…

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