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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1888

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Newcastle District Court. Fourth Day. Thursday, November 29Th, 1888. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson.) the Gosford Libel Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 November 1888 · page 6

THE action of Lane v Parsons to recover £200 for libel was continued. The cause of action has already been set out at considerable length…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, Nov. 29. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.M., Dr. C. W. Morgan, and Mr. G. C. Martin, Licensing Magistrates). Application Refused

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 November 1888 · page 7

FREDERICK ZIDSKA applied to have his premises, known as the Caledonian Hotel, Watt-street, transferred to Henry Simpson…

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Attempted Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1888 · page 6

MARGARET COOPER, about thirty-one years of age, who lived in a house in Marlborough-street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, had her throat cut by a man…

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Threatening to Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1888 · page 11

MR. ABRAHAM, M.P., has received an extraordinary letter from Mountain Ash, warning him that if he comes into the Division to support Mr…

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The Murder at Gateshead

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1888 · page 6

THE inquest on the body of Jane Beetmoor, who was murdered at Birtley, was resumed, the accused man (Waddle) being present in…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, November 30, 1888. (Before Messrs. James Mair, P.M., and G. C. Martin, J.p.) Assault Within View of a Constable

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1888 · page 7

ROBERT WALLACE, a seaman, was charged with having committed an assault within view of a constable. Constable Deady deposed that he…

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Newcastle District Court. Fifth Day. Friday, November 30Th, 1888. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1888 · page 2

THE court re-opened at 10 o'clock, when the case of LANE V. PARSONS (part heard) was resumed…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, December 1, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and G. C. Martin, J.p.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 December 1888 · page 6

THE persons were fined for this offence. ASSAULT. John Kantwell was charged with…

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A Magistrate on "General" Booth's Income

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 December 1888 · page 5

AT the Southwark Police Court on the 5th October, George Humphreys, an ex-convict, was charged on remand before Mr. Sheil with stealing a…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, December 3, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., D. Ludlow, and P. Bennett, J's.P.) INEBRIETY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 December 1888 · page 7

SIX persons were fined for this offence. INDECENCY. John Campbell, seaman, was fined…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, December 4. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. H. Shaw, J.p.) Intoxication

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 December 1888 · page 7

ONE inebriate was fined. BAD LANGUAGE. James F. Thompson, seaman, was fined £1, or seven days'…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 5. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and D. Murray, J.p.) Alcoholism

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 December 1888 · page 6

Two persons were fined the usual sums for imbibing too freely. ASSAULT. Alfred Hussey, seaman, was charged…

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Latest District News. Wallsend. Police Court. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 December 1888 · page 5

CHARLES BROADHEAD was charged with indecent behaviour on the 1st December. He stated that on account of having a spirited horse in his…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, December 6. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., G. C. Martin, and D. Murray, J's P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 December 1888 · page 6

Two persons were before the Bench for this offence. One was fined, and the other, a deaf and dumb man named Joseph Bunn, was discharged…

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Small Debts Court. Parker V. Rolley

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 December 1888 · page 5

This was a case in which some inflammatory language had been used. Mr. Law, solicitor, appeared for the plaintiff…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, December 6Th, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., G. C. Martin, and Dr. C. W. Morgan, J.'s.P.) Sunday Selling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 December 1888 · page 6

Thomas Maxted was summoned for Sunday selling on premises known as the Cambridge Hotel, Hamilton-road, on the 2nd instant. He pleaded guilty,…

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Extraordinary Burglary in Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1888 · page 6

A DURING case of burglary and attempted robbery was (says the S. M. Herald) brought to light at Summer Hill on Wednesday night. At…

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Latest District News. Lambton. Police Court.—friday. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1888 · page 8

WILLIAM GRIERSON, inspector of nuisances, appeared to prosecute Jacob Probert for allowing his cow to stray in the municipality…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 7. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. H. Shaw, J.p.) Inebriety

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1888 · page 2

Two persons were fined for drunkenness. ALLEGED THREATENING. James Howells, on remand from…

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The Mountmorres Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 December 1888 · page 5

At the sitting of the Times. Parnell Commission an Irish peasant named Burke, who was examined, deposed that the Clonbar branch of the league…

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