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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1883

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 December 1883 · page 2

MR. MAIR, P.M., with Messrs. S. Chapman, and David Ludlow, J.'sP., occupied the Bench yesterday. A batch of drunkards were disposed of, including a youngster hardly fifteen years old: Michael McCue,…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 December 1883 · page 2

MR. MAIR, P.M., Mr. Chapman, J.P., and Mr. T. Brooks, J.P., presided at the Police Court yesterday. The "drunken list" was unusually light. Schools Attendance…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1883 · page 2

THE P.M., with Messrs. Lochhead and Creer, J.'sP., presided at the Police Court yesterday. The business sheets placed before them were light. Samuel Hughes, driving before without lights, was fined 7s 6d…

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A Theft of Human Remains

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1883 · page 7

A YOUNG married woman named Helmsley, against whom there were several convictions, was brought up at the Nottingham Town Hall charged…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 December 1883 · page 3

AT the Police Court on Monday (before Messrs. Chapman and Ludlow, J.'sP.), Thomas Cleary, for habitual drunkenness, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment with hard labour. Samuel Ward, for…

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The Dynamiters Sentenced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 December 1883 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday.—Dynamiters at Glasgow have been sentenced, five to penal servitude for life, and the other five to seven years each…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 December 1883 · page 2

YESTERDAY, at the Police Court, before the P.M. and Mr. George Donald, J.P., the following cases were heard:—James Childs, described as a carpenter, but shewn by…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1883 · page 4

MR. MAIE, P.M., and Mr. George Donald, J.P., were the presiding magistrates at the Police Court yesterday. James Childs, a Sydney bookmaker, on…

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Police Magistrates and Reporters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 December 1883 · page 2

SOME time ago the Police Magistrate at Armidale and one of the local papers had a difference of opinion, and the journal in question—the Express—…

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Mutiny and Cowardly Murder. an Exciting Story of the Sea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 December 1883 · page 2

BRISBANE, Saturday.—On the Water Police boarding the Sweedish schooner Natal, from Boston, they found that a mutiny and a murder had taken place…

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