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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1888

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, March 9, 1888. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., W. Lindus, G. C. Martin, and J. Thorn, Js.P.) Lifting Their Little Fingers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 March 1888 · page 3

THREE inebriates were fined for alcoholie excess. A FINN-ISHED SOAMP. August Lorter, a Finnish seaman, was…

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Wallsend Police Court. March 9, 1888. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) the Government Examiner of Coalfields Versus J. Y. Neilson As Agent of the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co. Second Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 March 1888 · page 7

THIS was a case in which the defendant was charged with a breach of the Coal-mines Regulation Act of 1876 (39 Victoria No. 31). Mr. W. H. Edmunds, instructed by Mr…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, March 10, 1888. (Before the Police Magistrate.) BACCHANALIANS. Two inebriates were fined. INDECENCY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 March 1888 · page 7

John Blair, a labourer, for behaving indecently in Florence-street, Wickham, on Friday afternoon, was fined £2, or fourteen days' gaol…

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Wallsend Police Court. March 10, 1888. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) the Government Examiner of Coalfields Versus J. Y. Neilson As Agent of the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co. Third Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 March 1888 · page 5

THE Court opened at 10 o'clock. Alexander Ross had been manager of Newcastle Coalmining Company's colliery for ten years. Had been sixteen years in the…

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Burglary Under Arms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1888 · page 5

BEFORE the Collingwood magistrates (says the Melbourne Telegraph) three young men named William Keane, William Freeman, and Edwin Ellis…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, March 12, 1888. (Before Mr. James Mair, P.m.) Stabbing Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1888 · page 6

JOHN BARKER, on remand from 7th inst., was charged with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on one Robert Ray, at Newcastle, on the 25th…

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Maitland Quarter Sessions. First Day. Monday, March 12Th, 1888. (Before His Honor Mr. District Court Judge Dowling.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1888 · page 7

THE March Quarter Sessions were commenced at East Maitland at 10 a.m. Mr. G. Fitzhardinge acted as Grown Prosecutor, and the following barristers were present:—Messrs…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, March 13, 1888. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin and W. H. Shaw, Js.P.) DRUNKENNESS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1888 · page 3

ONLY one offender was fined for the above offence. DESERTION. John Barakstrum, Charles Hansen,…

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Maitland Quarter Sessions. Second Day. Tuesday, March 13Th, 1888. (Before His Honor Mr. District Court Judge Dowling)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1888 · page 3

THE Court re-opened at 9 o'clock, when his Honor delivered the following sentences:— ATTEMPTED DISCHARGE OF A REVOLVER…

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Fifty-seven Years in Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1888 · page 8

THE Brisbane World says:— The other day, a man called at our office and complained that, although penniless, aged, and infirm, the Colonial…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, March 14, 1888. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.m.) Alcoholic Excess

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1888 · page 3

ONE offender, who had imbibed to excess, was flood in the usual amount. BREACHES OF THE BY-LAWS. Dominic Kinsela, for suffering five…

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Maitland Quarter Sessions. Third Day. Wednesday, March 14Th, 1888. (Before His Honor Mr. District Court Judge Dowling)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1888 · page 7

THE court re-opened at 9 a.m. Mr. G. Fitzhardinge acted as Crown Prosecutor FALSE PRETENCES…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, March 15, 1888. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, P.m.) Riotous Behaviour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 March 1888 · page 6

WILLIAM WALLACE, seaman, was charged with behaving in a riotous manner in Newcomen-street. Constable Turner arrested accused, who…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, March 15, 1888. (Before Dr. C. W. Morgan and Mr. W. K. Lochhead, Js.P.) a Game of Cards

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 March 1888 · page 6

HENRY SHARP, licensee of the All Nations Hotel, Carrington, was charged with suffering a game of cards to be carried on in his licensed…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, March 16, 1888 (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., J. Thorn, and W. Lindus, Js.P.) INEBRIETY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1888 · page 2

THREE drunkards were fined. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. John M'Cabe, a labourer, was troublesome at Carrington on…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, March 17, 1888 (Before the Police Magistrate.) a Rough Customer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 March 1888 · page 6

WILLIAM SAYERS, a fireman, was charged with using indecent language in the public bar of the Crystal Polace Hotel on Friday afternoon…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, March 19, 1888 (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., D. Ludlow, and P. Bennett, Js.P.) a Quiet St. Patrick's Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1888 · page 6

ONLY two inebriates were fined for keeping up St. Patrick's Day. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Thomas Robert, labourer, was fined…

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Attempted Burglary at Wickham Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1888 · page 5

ON Tuesday night, about a quarter past 11, Constable Gee received information that lights were seen inside the girls' school, and, from the fitful way the lights seemed to move,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, March 21, 1888 (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and W. Lindus, J.p.) Inebriety

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1888 · page 6

THREE inebriates were fined. BREACHES OF BY-LAWS. Inspector of Public Vehicles Davey, on behalf of the Newcastle Council,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, March 22, 1888 (Before the Police Magistrate.) DISCHARGED

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 March 1888 · page 7

L. GRANT, on remand from the 15th inst. as a person deemed to be insane, was discharged. A CURIOUS "CAMP."…

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