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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1890

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Bankruptcy Court. Wednesday, April, 30. In re Sydney Edward Eden

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1890 · page 6

BANKRUPT stated that his insolvency had been caused by want of work and having to keep his mother. He was a labourer by occupation. His was a labourer by…

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The Domain Murder. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1890 · page 5

IT has transpired that the name of the Swede who is an custody on suspicion of being concerned in the Domain murder is Stone. The woman who called at the police station, and…

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The Quirindi Mystery. Supposed Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1890 · page 6

THE coroner of Gunnedah held an inquest at Quirindi on Wednesday on the body of the woman Sarah Eveline Donalds, who had been living with a Chinaman named Jimmy Ah…

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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, 1St May. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1890 · page 7

JOHN MARKHAM, a boy about 12 years of age, was charged with leaving his master's employ. Constable Rogers deposed that the boy had…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday. May 1. (Before Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P.). Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1890 · page 7

R. RAYCROFT and R. Martin were fined the usual 5s or 24 hours For being found incapable on the public wharf and in Brown street respectively…

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The Wagga Wagga Tragedy. Another Murder Suspected. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1890 · page 5

THE prisoner Schmidt it is said has partially confessed to having murdered Jacob Rick. So far as has at present been ascertained Rick was last seen alive at Albury in the company…

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The Alleged Mutiny on the Egeria. The Court Martial. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1890 · page 3

THIS morning, on board H.M.S. Opal, a court-martial arising out of a disturbance on board H.M.S. Egeria, while on a surveying cruise to the South Seas, was…

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The Attempted Murder of a Judge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 7

RECENTLY, at Nottingham Assizes, before Baron Pollock, Edward Wilhelm Ernest Arnemann, a German dentist, was indicted for attempting to murder Judge Bristowe, on…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, May 2. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and Thorn, Christie, and Weir, Js.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 2

JOHN M'LEAN, 52, a dealer, and Thomas Usher, 33, no calling, were fined 5s, in default 24 hours gaol for being drunk. That Rooster…

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A Duke in the Bankruptcy Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 9

AT the London Court of Bankruptcy, recently, an application for an order of discharge was made by the Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, against whom a receiving…

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New Hebrides Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 7

ANOTHER murder has taken place at Devil's Point, Aoba. It appears about the beginning of last month a French settler named Mercier had paid the natives for a lot of cocoanuts…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, May 3. (Before Mr. J. Mair, P.M.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 6

JOHN JOHNSON, 40, a seaman, Thomas Burns, 45, a seaman, Noales Olsen, 26, a seaman, and Frank Anderson, 33, a seaman, were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours'…

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The Murder of Mr. Benwell in Canada

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 8

THE Daily News correspondent at Princeton, Ontario, telegraphed recently: "The inquest on the body of F. C. Benwell, the young Englishman who was found dead in a swamp…

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The Domain Murder. a Knife Found. The Swede in Court. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1890 · page 5

AN important discovery has been made in connection with the Domain murder, viz., the finding of the knife with which the wounds on the murdered man are supposed…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, 5Th May. (Before Mr R. I. Perrott, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1890 · page 3

THOMAS CASEY, was charged with being drunk on the 3rd inst. A further charge of obscene language was also preferred. For being drunk he was admonished and…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, May 5. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and Christie and Dudlow Js.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1890 · page 7

WILLIAM CAMPBELL, 63, a miner, Charles Campbell, 28, a labourer, James Gilmore, 51, a labourer, Richard Raycroft, 33, a labourer, John M'Intyre, 30, a miner, Michael King,…

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The Naval Court-martial. Five Men on Trial. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1890 · page 5

THE court-martial into the alleged disturbances on board H.M.S. Egeria was continued this morning on board H.M.S. Opal. Captain Day Bosanquet, of the Opal, sat as…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Messrs. G. C. Martin and W. H. Shaw, Js.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1890 · page 7

Upwards of 20 cases were dealt with in the Small Debts Court…

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Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, 6Th May. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1890 · page 3

MAGARET METCALFE made an application to the Bench to grant a prohibition order against her husband, William Metcalfe, of North Lambton…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, May 6. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., and D. Murray, J.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1890 · page 6

MARY PRGRUM, 41, John Morris, 62, a painter, Albert Clements, 48, a fiddler, and Edward Phillips, 28, a seaman, were each fined 5s, with an alternative of 24 hours' lock…

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