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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1888

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, December 20, 1888. (Before Dr. C. W. Morgan and Mr. G. C. Martin, Js.P.) TRANSFER

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 December 1888 · page 2

THE license of the Royal Standard Hotel, Adamstown, was transferred from Mary Love to William Russell, there being no police objection…

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Brutal Wife Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1888 · page 8

SUPERINTENDENT SPENCE, of Pickering, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, received information to the effect that a Mrs. Pennock, wife of…

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How Gaol-birds Are Manufactured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1888 · page 3

ISAAC ALTLEN, labourer, has a wife with a ticklish temper, a shrewish tongue, and a weakness for drink. Allen assaults her, and is ordered by…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 21. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.p.) Intemperance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1888 · page 7

THERE persons were fined for drunkenness. DISCHARGED. James Howell, a publican, was charged with using threatening…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, December 22. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.m.) Riotous Behaviour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 December 1888 · page 7

JAMES POWELL, labourer, and Charles Roes, seaman, were charged with be having in a riotous manner in Bolton-street on Friday night. Powell was…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, December 24. (Before Messrs. D. Ludlow and G. C. Martin, Js.P.) INTOXICATION

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 December 1888 · page 6

THREE persons were fined for drunkenness. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Elias Eliassen, seaman, was fined…

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Murder of a Labour Agent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 December 1888 · page 7

THE labour schooner Ariel has arrived at Bundaberg with 75 recruits. She reports that the Government agent, Mr. Armstrong, was killed at…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 26. (Before Mr. G. C. Martin and Captain Cross, Js.P.) DRUNKENNESS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 December 1888 · page 7

ONLY one person was before the Bench for this offence, and he was discharged. Two men, charged with being drunk and disorderly, were…

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Attempted Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 December 1888 · page 5

THE report of a pistol was recently heard in High-street, Walthamstow, England, when it was ascertained that a barman at the Cock Tavern had shot…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, December 27. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. H. Shaw, J.p.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 December 1888 · page 7

SIX persons were fined for this offence. DISORDERLY. John Joseph O'Reilly, blacksmith,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 28. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and J. Thorn, J.p.) Inebriety

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 2

Two persons were fined for drunkenness. ASSAULT. Thomas Pugh, miner, was fined 20s,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, December 29. (Before the Police Magistrate.) INTOXICATION

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 December 1888 · page 6

THREE persons were fined for drunkenness. RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR. Jacob Anderson and Andrew Olsen,…

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Theft of £1500

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 December 1888 · page 7

ON the arrival of the Orient Company's steamer Orizaba in Plymouth Sound on November 21, it was reported that on nearing Naples on the…

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Murder and Mutilation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 December 1888 · page 5

The body of a boy, 8 years of age, has been discovered at Bradford, mutilated to even a greater extent than the bodies of the victims of the…

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