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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1888

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, October 5, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.p.) Alleged Vagrancy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1888 · page 3

MORRIS JACOBS alias Ivo Bligh was charged with having no visible lawful means of support. Accused pleaded not guilty…

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District News. Lambton. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1888 · page 5

JOSEPH LESLIE WARREN, of Sydney, and late of Newcastle, was charged at the police court, yesterday morning, before Mr. T. Grierson, J.P., with the…

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Lambton Police Court. Saturday, October 6. (Before Messrs. T. Grierson and M. Curran, Js.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1888 · page 2

JOHN-EDWARDS was charged, on arrest, with having stolen one large wooden door and one coil of rope from a slaughter-yard at Dark Creek,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, October 8Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and D. Ludlow, J.p.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1888 · page 7

Two persons were fined for this offence. ASSAULT. Stephen Thomas, an aboriginal, was…

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Lambton. Police Court.—tuesday. (Before Mr. R. Turton and Mr. T. Grierson, Js.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1888 · page 6

Joseph Leslie Warren was charged, on remand, with abduction. After the formal evidence of the police respecting the arrest of the accused…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Monday. the Latest Murder in London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1888 · page 5

A post mortem examination made of the headless and armless trunk of a woman found in the Thames embankment last week revealed the fact…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, October 9Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin and W. H. Shaw, Js.P.) INEBRIETY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1888 · page 3

THREE persons were fined for drunkenness. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. John Burton, seaman, was fined £2,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, October 10Th, 1888. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Charge of Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 October 1888 · page 7

GEORGE GARSIDE, a lad 8 years of age, charged with stealing 1s and a number of cigarettes, value 4s 6d, from the shop of Richard Johnson, at Islington,…

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Newcastle Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 October 1888 · page 4

A QUARTERLY meeting of the above court was held yesterday, Dr. C. W. Morgan (chairman), and Mr. G. C. Martin, J's.P., presiding…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, October 11Th, 1888. (Before Mr. G. C. Martin, J.p.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 October 1888 · page 6

Two inebriates, including "Lady" Munro, were fined, the penalty in the latter case being £1, or seven days' gaol…

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District News. Wallsend. Police Court. (Before Dr. J. B. Nash, R. P. House, and J. Richardson, Js.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 October 1888 · page 6

THE first case was under the Tenants Act—Palmer v. Bailey. It appears that Palmer is desirous of obtaining possession of the hotel kept by Bailey,…

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Great Jewellery Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 October 1888 · page 10

THE Vienna correspondent of the Times writes:—It will be remembered that about three years ago a mysterious burglary was committed on…

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Our Shabby Court-house

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 October 1888 · page 2

THE Newcastle Court-house externally badly requires a coat of paint, for in its present dilapidated condition it stands a disgrace instead of an…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, October 12Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin, chairman, W. H. Shaw, and J. Thorn, Js.P.) ROYSTERERS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 October 1888 · page 2

Two men and one woman were fined for drunkenness. BREACHES OF THE PUBLIC INSTRUCTION ACT…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, October 13Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin and W. H. Shaw. J's.P.) DRUNKENNESS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 October 1888 · page 7

Theresa Thomas was charged with being drunk and disorderly the previous night. She was fined 20s, or seven days' gaol. She was also…

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Fearful Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1888 · page 5

A fearful murder has been committed in Yorkshire. A son kicked his mother to death, and afterwards attacked the corpse, which he…

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Escape of a Prisoner From Silverton Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1888 · page 5

JAMES Ross, who was convicted of horse-stealing at the recent Circuit Court, and was sentenced to seven years' hard labour in Goulburn Gaol,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, October 15Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and D. Ludlow, J.p.) Inebriety

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1888 · page 7

FOUR persons were fined for drunkenness. "D. AND D." Francois Vaves, a French seaman,…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 October 1888 · page 3

Two Chinamen, named low Yow and Low Hin, yesterday morning gave information to the police that they had been assaulted by some men at the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, October 16Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin and W. H. Shaw, J.'sP.) INEBRIETY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 October 1888 · page 6

ONE person was fined for drunkenness. ALLEGED, THEFT. Henry Evans, 23, labourer, was charged on suspicion of stealing one…

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