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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1883

290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 15

An Atrocious Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 October 1883 · page 2

DENILIQUIN, Saturday.—A horrible murder has been committed near Pretty Pine, ten miles from Deniliquin. On Thursday the body of Myzan, a hawker,…

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Burglary and Stabbing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 October 1883 · page 4

A SERIOUS case of burglary and stabbing occurred at the Lincolnshire Arms Hotel, Essendon Victoria, about 4 o'clock on Sunday week. A lodger named Charles Stewart was awakened by a noise in the…

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Graveyard Ghouls. [Thoughts on reading a recent leader in the Herald and Advocate on the imposition fees charged for burial, etc., in the Newcastle Cemetery.]

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 October 1883 · page 4

SAYS Plato—"Why should man be vain since bounteous Heaven hath made him great?" But they who grab for worldly gain, the question scarce will contemplate…

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An Extensive Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 October 1883 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A man named Oliver Beere was charged to-day with stealing nearly 3000 yards of silk, over 1000 yards of satin, and eighty umbrellas, valued…

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Wholesale Child Murder in America. Dogs Fed on Dead Babes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 October 1883 · page 3

An American paper says: A profound sensation has been created in Philadelphia by the discovery in a cellar of the house No. 2245 North Fifth street of the bodies of twenty-one infants who had been killed…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 October 1883 · page 4

MR. MAIR, P.M., disposed of the Police Court charge and summons sheets yesterday. In a case, Adams v. Jane Pike, for using indecent language in Dickson-street, Wickham, defendant…

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Foul Murder in New Zealand

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 October 1883 · page 2

LYTTELTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.—John Durham, an old waterman, of Lyttelton (N.Z.), has been found strangled in his house. His mate, James Argus, has been arrested on…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 October 1883 · page 2

MR. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P., presided at the Police Court yesterday. The drunkards' list having been dis-disposed of, John McNeill, Donald Currie,…

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A Bathurst Assault Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 October 1883 · page 2

BATHURST, Wednesday.—A man named John Brown, for maliciously wounding Ned "the pieman," at Bathurst, has been sentenced to eight years' penal-servitude…

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Horrible Murder in Fiji

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 October 1883 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—News has been received here that Archibald Wilson, late of Sydney an engineer and fitter, has been murdered in Fiji by six natives…

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Parliament of N.S. Wales. Sydney, Thursday. Legislative Council. Contempt of Court Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 October 1883 · page 2

The debate on the second reading of the Contempt of Court Bill was resumed in the Council yesterday. Sir Alfred Stephen, in a lengthy speech,…

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Intercolonial Telegrams. Savage Assault on a Woman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 October 1883 · page 4

PERTH, W.A., Friday.—On Wednesday evening, Alexander Niren, a sign writer, made a savage assault upon a woman named Minnie Green, with whom he had been living for some time past. He…

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Trying a Poison in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 October 1883 · page 5

CONSIDERABLE sensation, and a great deal of subsequent amusement, was caused at the Carlton Police Court (says the Melbourne Herald) at the conclusion of a case brought by the Pharmacy Board against Mr…

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An "Invincible" Sentenced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 October 1883 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday.—An "Invincible" has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment, for threatening to murder Mr. Coleman, member for Norwich…

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Newcastle Police Court

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

MR. MAIR, P.M., with Dr. Morgan, and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J's P., presided at the Police Court yesterday. A case Elizabeth Jane Coote v. Charles Coote, for alleged…

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The Deniliquin Murder

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

DENILIQUIN, Tuesday.—The man Gordon has been further remanded for the recent murder of the hawker Nysan, near Deniliquin. The evidence against…

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Intercolonial Telegrams. Alleged Wife Murder at Kyneton

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

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The wife of an hotelkeeper at Kyneton has been found dead on the side of a road, with her head battered in. The body was horribly…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 November 1883 · page 2

MR. MAIR, P.M., adjourned at the Police Court yesterday. Catherine Thomas and John Oswald, for having used profane language at Hamilton, were each fined 42s 6d,…

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A Wife-beater Sentenced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 November 1883 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Thomas Banner, convicted of an aggravated assault on his wife, has been sentenced to three years penal servitude, the first six months to be…

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Chinese Riot at Cairns (N.q.) the Police Called Out. One Chinaman Killed and Three Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 November 1883 · page 2

CAIRNS, Wednesday.—Thirty Chinamen employed at a plantation near Cairns refused work. The police were sent for, and a riot ensued. One Chinese was killed,…

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