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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1883

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Murder in Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 March 1883 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday.—An inquest was held to-day at Bullengarook on the body of Annie O'Donnell, who was murdered on Wednesday morning last,…

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Suspected Murder in Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 March 1883 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—An inquest was held at Brighton to-day concerning the death of William Robert Harding, whose body was found on the…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1883 · page 2

MR. MAIR, P.M., and Mr. D. Ludlow, J.P. dealt with the Police Court sheets yester, day. The drunkards' list was light:— James Dalton, for drunkenness and obscene…

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The Late Murder in Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 March 1883 · page 4

THE City Coroner conducted an inquest at his office on Monday morning on the remains of the woman Elizabeth Wagner, who was shot with…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1883 · page 3

Mr. MAIR, P.M., with Messrs. Creer and Ludlow, J.'s P., disposed of the police business. yesterday. Jeremiah Foley, a worn-out old swagsman, aged 90, was…

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Horrible Murder in Queensland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1883 · page 3

At the Mundarah Police Court two young girls named Fanny Parker, 13 years of age, and Florence Parker, 15 years of age, the daughters of an innkeeper of that place,…

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Attempted Murder at Levuka

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1883 · page 8

SHORTLY after the arrival of the steamer Rotorua from New Zealand on Wednesday morning (says the Fiji Argus of February 10) the town was thrown into state of the…

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Murder of a Chinaman

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

ARMIDALE, Saturday.—The body of an old Celestial, known in Armidale as Jimmy the Chinaman doctor, was found this morning about 7 o'clock…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1883 · page 2

AT the Newcastle Police Court, on Monday, before the P.M. and Messrs. Brook and Ludlow J.'sP., a batch of inebriate were disposed of in the usual manner…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1883 · page 2

YESTERDAY, at the Police Court, a large number of cases were disposed of. On the charge side, a batch of drunkards were disposed of Carl Rauschell, cook and steward,…

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Police Protection of London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1883 · page 2

LONDON, March 19.—Sir W. Vernon Harcourt, Home Secretary, has announced his intention of increasing the number of constables on duty in London by 500 for the…

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The Armidale Murder

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

ALL the Chinese and the woman custody in connection with the recent murder were brought before the Armidale Police Court on Thursday morning and discharged. A…

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A Swiss Murder Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 March 1883 · page 3

A CASE of murder, which has been the occasion of considerable excitement in Switzerland, has just been tried at Lausaune. The accused were a man,…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1883 · page 2

AT the Police Court yesterday, a batch of inebriates were disposed of. In a wages case Thomas Stanbury v. T. Stevens, master of the Niagara, for £8…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 March 1883 · page 2

YESTERDAY Mr. Mair, police magistrate, and Mr. G. Donald, J.P., presided at the police court. John Stewart, alias O'Sullivan, alias…

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The Armidale Murder.—verdict Against Rushbourne

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

THE coroner's inquest on the death of the Chinese doctor was concluded last Friday night, when the jury brought in a verdict of wilful murder against George Rusbourne,…

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Newcastle Police Court

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

MR. MAIR, P.M., with Messrs. J. Creer, and D. Ludlow, J.'sP., presided at the Police Court yesterday. A batch of inebriates were dealt with;…

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Money Lenders in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 April 1883 · page 4

SOME extraordinary revelations as to the exorbitant rates of interest demanded by money lenders were made in the Insolvent Court, Melbourne, on Friday, during an…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 April 1883 · page 2

BUSINESS at the Police Court, yesterday, was light. Several drunkards were disposed of. George Bazzy and Charles Wordman, for…

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Court of Appeal in Criminal Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 April 1883 · page 2

LONDON, April 3.—The bill introduced by the Government to provide for the establishment of a Court of Appeal ,in criminal cases was read a second time in the House…

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