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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1887

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, 4Th August. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. K. Lochhead, J.p.) Inebriety. One drunkard was fined. Youthful Delinquents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 August 1887 · page 7

James Watson and Reginald Stark, boys, one 14 years of age and the other 10, were charged with having five bags in their possession…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, August 4. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. K. Lochhead and Dr. C. W. Morgan, J's.P.) Conditional Licenses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 August 1887 · page 7

MR. J. A. GORRICK applied, on behalf of Mr. Walter Sidney, for a conditional license for a house to be erected in Hunter and Scott streets, to be…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, 5Th August. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.p.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1887 · page 2

FOUR persons were fined for alcoholic excess. AN UN-PARH CUSTOM. John Hennessy and Thomas Lowe were charged with travelling from Sydney to…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, 6Th August. (Before the Police Magistrate.) DRUNKENNESS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 August 1887 · page 6

ONE inobriate was fined. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. William Willis, a seaman, was fined 20s, or in default seven days'…

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The Preller-maxwell Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 August 1887 · page 5

A writ of error has been granted in connection with the famous Preller-Maxwell murder case in America, the probable result of which will be that…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, 8Th August. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and D. Ludlow, and W. Lindus, J.'s.P.) Victims of Tanglefoot

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 August 1887 · page 6

FIVE persons were fined for drunkenness. WOULD NOT PROSEOUTE. Charles Jones was charged on…

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Assault at Sea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 August 1887 · page 5

RICHARD FLOODY was charged, yesterday, before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., with assaulting the third officer of the British registered steamship Sikh, on the 2nd inst., at the port of…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, 9Th August. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., J. Creer, M.L.A., and W. H. Shaw, Js.P.) DRUNKENNESS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 August 1887 · page 6

One inebriate was fined. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Charles Baldwin, a seaman, was fined £2, or fourteen days' gaol, for…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, 10Th August. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and G. C. Martin, J.p.) Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 August 1887 · page 6

JOHN BREWER pleaded guilty to using profane language in Bunter-street on Tuesday evening, and was fined £1, or seven days' gaol…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Applications Granted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 August 1887 · page 6

THE application of Mrs. Annie Golding of the Albert Victor Hotel, Burwood, for a music and dancing license for Friday, August 12th, was granted…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, 11Th August. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and J. Creer, M.L.A., J.p.) Alcoholism

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 August 1887 · page 6

ONE inebriate was fined 5s. INDECENT BEHAVIOUR. Alexander M'Kenzie, a miner, was charged with behaving in an indecent…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, 12Th August. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.p.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 August 1887 · page 3

Five persons were fined for inebriety. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Wm. Castles, and engineer, was fined 10s, or 48 hours' imprisonment, for being drunk and…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, 13Th August. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Too Much "Marie"-d

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 August 1887 · page 5

"MARIE BRIZARD" brandy is the favourite tipple just now, and, in consequence of this, Benjamin Booth, a minor, pleaded guilty to being drunk…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, 16Th August. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. H. Shaw, J.p.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 August 1887 · page 6

ONE inebriate was fined. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Alexander Lane and John Liddle, miners, were fined 10s and 20s…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, 17Th August. (Before the Police Magistrate.) DRUNKENNESS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1887 · page 6

FOUR persons were fined for alcoholic excess. RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR. Carl Hendreston and Herman…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, 18Th August. (Before the Police Magistrate.) DRUNKENNESS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 August 1887 · page 6

TWO persons were fined 5s each for drunkenness. PROTECTION. Thomas Jones, 25, a bricklayer,…

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Alleged Murder of H. M. Stanley

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 August 1887 · page 5

A despatch received at the French Foreign Office announce the murder of Stanley, the explorer…

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Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 August 1887 · page 11

DRAMATIC circumstances were revealed in a trial for murder, which has just taken place at Nantes. A young woman, a farm servant, was found…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, August 19. (Before Messrs. James Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.P. a "Lark" at Belmont

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 August 1887 · page 2

WILLIAM LENNARD was charged, on summons, with using profane language at Belmont on August 6, and also with being drunk and disorderly at the same time and…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, 22Nd August. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.M., and Mr. D. Ludlow, J.p.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 August 1887 · page 7

A MOST unusual circumstance: only a solitary individual faced the Bench, although it was Monday. INDECENT LANGUAGE…

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