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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1883

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Alleged Murder in AUCKLAND

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1883 · page 3

WARRANTS have been issued for the arrest of Miriam Hamilton and Thomas Priestly, a Presbyterian student, charging them with the wilful murder of…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1883 · page 2

THE P.M., with Mr. J. Creer, J.P., presided on the local bench yesterday. The charges sheets were light, and comprised the following cases:—…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1883 · page 5

THE Police Court business was disposed of yesterday by Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. J. Creer, J.P. After the usual "disposing of drunkards,"…

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CABLEGRAMS The Bernays Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 January 1883 · page 2

BRUSSELS, Friday.—To trial of the brothers Armaud and Leon Peltzer for the murder of M. Bernays, an Antwerp lawyer, which caused great excitement…

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CABLEGRAMS. The Dublin Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 January 1883 · page 2

LONDON, January 7.—The Commissioner of Police in Dublin has resigned…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 January 1883 · page 2

MR, MAIR, P.M., Mr. J. Creer, and Mr. G. Donald, J's.P., disposed of the police Court business yesterday. Louis Kow, a seaman for being drunk and disorderly, was fined…

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Lambton Police Court. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 January 1883 · page 3

SIR,—The paragraph in your issue of Thursday, referring to Long's case, at the Police Court, Lambton, charged with striking Dunlop, is wrong. He said the…

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The Bernays Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1883 · page 8

THE great interest taken in Europe, and the whole of the civilized world, in the trial (at which 300 witnesses were examined) of the brothers Armand and Loon…

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The Alleged Murder of a Husband in Auckland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1883 · page 3

THE hearing in the case of the supposed murder of Hugh Hamilton commenced on January 8. Four doctors swore that the fracture of the deceased's…

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Refusing to Leave Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 January 1883 · page 3

A POLICE case of a rather unusual character was heard in the lockup on Wednesday afternoon (says the Forbes Times). A woman, named Margaret…

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A Dublin Councillor charged with Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1883 · page 2

LONDON, January 18.—Mr. Carey, Councillor, of Dublin, has been arrested for murder, on the testimony of an informer…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1883 · page 2

MR. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. D. Ludlow, J.P., presided at the Police Court yesterday. Andrew McKaish and William Abernethy, two "flash" sailor boys,…

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Murder of Professor Palmer and His Party

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1883 · page 4

THE following further information has been elicited during the investigation which is being conducted by Colonel Warren into the circumstances of the…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 5

AT the Police Court yesterday, John Holovick, an Austrian seaman, was fined £5, in default a month, for having, on the 14th inst., connived at the desertion of one…

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Lambton Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 5

ON Friday, before Mr. Perrott, P.M., David Parcel, for riotous behaviour at New Lambton, on Monday evening, the 15th inst., was sent to Maitland gaol for seven…

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The Anarchists Sentenced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1883 · page 2

LYONS, January 19.—The trial of the prisoners charged with complicity in the Anarchist outbreak has concluded. Prince Krapotkin and the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 22, 1883

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1883 · page 3

DRUNKENNESS.—Several offenders we dealt with for this offence, including couple of black gins. "Lizzie," one the pair, a girl of about sixteen, replied in…

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Lambton Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1883 · page 3

ON Tuesday, before Mr. Perrott, P.M., Messrs. Croudace and Dr. Nash, J.'s P., Mary Long, Moriah Easton, and Harriet Ramsdale were charged with behaving in…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1883 · page 2

MR. MAIR, P.M., Mr. George Donald, J.P. and Mr. D. Ludlow, J.P., occupied the bench on Monday. Ramsay West, seaman, for disorderly conduct aboard the barque…

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Execution for Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1883 · page 3

THE prisoner Charles Taylor, aged 39, who was convicted at the last sessions of the Central Criminal Court of the wilful murder of his wife, Caroline…

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