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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 · Friday 9 February 1883 · page 3

AT the police court yesterday, Archibald Finlay, seaman, for being drunk and disorderly, using obscene language, and resisting Constable Rochfort, was fined in all…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 5

MR. MAIR, P. M., and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, J.P., presided at the Police Court yesterday. James Brogran, seaman, drunk and…

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The Murder of a Constable

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 February 1883 · page 2

CONCERNING the murder of constable Dwyer, a correspondent of the Brisbane Courier, writes from Taroom, under date 29th January:—"On the 25th September…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1883 · page 2

THE Police Magistrate, with Messrs. J. Creer and D. Ludlow, J's.P., presided at the police court yesterday. The business consisted chiefly of cases resulting from…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 February 1883 · page 3

MR. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. W. A. Sparke, J.P., presided on the local bench yesterday. Elizabeth Gee, an incorrigible offender, charged with using obscene language,…

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Assault on Captain Cavell. of the Loch Shiel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1883 · page 3

THE hearing of the charge of unlawful assault preferred by Captain Cavell, of the ship Loch Shiel, against Edward G. Bennett, a fishmonger, of Bourke-street East, was…

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The Police, the Parliament, and the Licensing Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 February 1883 · page 2

THE printed reports of certain speeches lately made in the Assembly by Members of the Legislature must have given the public of this colony a…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 February 1883 · page 3

MESSRS. Mair, P.M., and Ludlow, J.P., were the presiding magistrates at the Police Court yesterday. Four inebriates were disposed of. John Osborne, on remand,…

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Murder of a British Escort

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 February 1883 · page 2

LONDON, February 19.—A British Embassy has been attacked by a body of Turcomans, and 11 of the escort have been killed…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1883 · page 4

AT the Police Court, before the P.M., yesterday, Robert Irwin, was committed for trial at Maitland Quarter Sessions for stealing a silver watch and gold chain,…

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Attempted Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1883 · page 5

AT the Adelaide Supreme Court, last Wednesday, Thomas Johnson, aged 55, was charged with attempting to kill his daughter on November 29. They were…

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Murder in Tasmania

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1883 · page 4

A BRUTAL murder was committed on February 17 on the Barton estate, on the River Isis, some eighteen miles from Campbell Town. The following…

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Escape of Three Women From a Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1883 · page 4

THE New Zealand Times gives the following account of a recent daring escape made by three girls from the Wellington gaol:—On the warder…

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Newcastle District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1883 · page 2

THE District Court commenced its sittings yesterday, before his Honour Mr. District Court, Judge Wilkinson. His Honour took his seat at 10 a.m. Mr. Edmunds was the…

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The Melbourne Theatrical Assault Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1883 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.—J. E. Moore, brother of Miss Maggie Moore, was charged at the City police court to-day, with assauting Mr. Alfred Moul, the musical…

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Extraordinary Assault by Two Women

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1883 · page 4

THE Pastoral Times (Deniliquin) reports an extraordinary charge of wounding with intent was investigated at the police court a few days ago, before the police magistrate…

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Newcastle District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1883 · page 2

SECOND DAY, TUESDAY, 27TH FEBRUARY. HIS Honour Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson took his seat at 10 a.m., and the following cases were heard:—…

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Newcastle District Court. Third Day, Wednesday, 28Th Feb

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

HIS Honor Judge Wilkinson continued the sitting of the District Court yesterday. The following cases were heard:— GEORGE VYE v. JOHN DALTON.—Claim…

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A Court of Quarter Sessions for Newcastle

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

THE fact that out of fourteen cases to be tried this session at Maitland ten have been sent from Newcastle, impels us, at the risk of being accused of…

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The Tasmania Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1883 · page 7

THE body of Constable Thompson, who was murdered by Connolly at Barton, was brought into Launceston last Tuesday and placed at the house of his sister-in-law,…

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