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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1889

1,191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 37 of 60

Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. W. H. Shaw and G. C. Martin, Js.P.) Sunday Selling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 August 1889 · page 2

Uriah Broome, licenses of the Royal Hotel, Wickham, was charged by Sub-In-specter Lynch with having kept his licensed premises open for the sale of liquor on…

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The Murder of Dr. Cronin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The Chicago grand jury is hearing evidence against Alexander. Sullivan, a member of the Clan-na-Gael, who is alleged to have been concerned in the…

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Summons Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1889 · page 3

Matthew Burridge was charged with neglecting to keep the back yard of his house in Hamilton clean. Defendant pleaded guilty, but stated that…

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Lambton Police Court. Friday, August 16. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1889 · page 5

JOSEPH WILSON, miner, pleaded guilty to using insulting language to Constable Kinnane, at New Lambton, on Sunday, the 11th inst…

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The Potts Point Murder. Considered by the Executive Council SYDNEY, Friday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1889 · page 5

A SPECIAL meeting of the Executive Council was held to-day for the purpose of considering a petition which has been presented on behalf of Morrison, asking that certain…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, August 15Th, 1889. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. J. Thorn, W.H. Shaw, and G.C.Martin, Js.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1889 · page 3

THOMAS L[?] a plumber, was sent up for 24 hours, nor having the necessary 5s with which to compensate the Government for locking him on the previous evening for…

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The Referee's Court. THE A.A. Company's Case. Wallsend Award Postponed. The Decision Next Week

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1889 · page 6

THE Referee's Court met yesterday for the hearing of the appeal of the A.A. Company's miners against the system of payment for mining in No. 2 pit…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Sunday Night. Daring Burglary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 August 1889 · page 5

Both hotels at Yongala were broken into last night, and all money and tills abstracted. TAKING NOTES…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, August 17Th, 1889. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 August 1889 · page 7

RICHARD SHORT, Charles Shelson, Christopher Steer, and Peter Donoghue were fined the usual 5s or 24 hours' imprisonment for being drunk on the previous…

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The Murder of Constable Sutherland. Morrison to be Hanged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 August 1889 · page 5

WITH a view of further considering the petition which has been got up in regard to the sentence passed upon James Morrison, condemned to death for the murder of Constable…

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The Referee's Court. THE A. A. CASE. Enlightening the Referee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 August 1889 · page 7

THE Referee's Court sat again on Saturday in the case between the A.A. miners and the Company. The hearing of evidence and the address on behalf of both sides were…

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Waratah Licensing Court. Saturday, August 17Th. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Sunday-selling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 August 1889 · page 5

JOHN DODD pleaded guilty to selling liquor in his licensed premises, Tattersall's Hotel, Plattsburg, on Sunday, the 11th inst. The defendant appeared in court in a groggy…

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The Sullivan-Kilrain Fight. Sullivan Sentenced to Imprisonment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—Sullivan, who engaged in a prize fight with Kilrain in America for the championship and 20,000dol, has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, August 19Th, 1889. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1889 · page 5

EUGENE M'CARTHY, a travelling agent for Messrs. Beale and Co., was charged with riotious behaviour at Minmi on the 9th inst. Constable Rogers deposed that on the days…

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Was It Murder ? History of the Maybrick Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1889 · page 6

THE extraordinary interest that has been aroused throughout England in connection with what is now known as the Maybrick case, along with the great efforts that are…

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The Potts Point Murder. Morrison Resigned to his Fate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1889 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday Night.—The condemned man, James Morrison, whose execution for the murder of Constable Sutherland is fixed for tomorrow morning, has continued to…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, August 19Th, 1889. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and D. Ludlow, J.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1889 · page 7

ROBERT BUNDLER, John Hall, and Christopher Star were fined 5s each for drunkenness. Humphrey Rees and Robert Cooper, for a similar offence, were fined 10s…

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Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, August 20, 1889. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Stealing From a Chinaman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 August 1889 · page 7

CHARLES ALLEN, aged 12 years, and Albert White, aged 11 years, were charged with stealing fireworks, rice, vegetables, 1s 1d, and several other things from Ah Yee, a…

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Attempted Murder near London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 August 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Another horrible murder has been committed in the metropolis. The body of a woman who had been outraged and murdered was found to-day…

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The Referee's Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 August 1889 · page 4

The next case to be submitted to the Referee (Mr. E. Barton, Q.C.) will, we understand, be the dispute between the West Wallsend Coal Company and the miners employed at…

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