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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1890

1,064 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 39 of 54

The Santon Seamen. Accused before the Court. The Case Dismissed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 September 1890 · page 6

Henry Dawson, Olu Gunderson, Charles Smith, George Culpepper, James Sinclair, Robert Aitken, Charles Williamson, James Evans, George Snook, Thomas George,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, September 16. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Liquor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 September 1890 · page 7

LOTTLE SOLOMON was charged with having being drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street West on the 15th instant. Accused pleaded guilty, and was fined £2, or seven days…

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Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, September 16. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Riotous Behaviour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 September 1890 · page 3

JOHN DONNELY was charged, on remand, with behaving in a riotous manner at New Lambton on 29th August. Defendant pleaded guilty, and promised to be a total…

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Sydney a Magisterial Announcement. Alleged Assault on a Union Picket. Master Carriers' Determination. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 September 1890 · page 5

The chief feature in connection with the strike to-day was the general feeling of uncertainty as to future developments. A general withdrawal of union labour is hourly…

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Anglo-Portuguese Treaty. Scene in the Portuguese Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 September 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Monday—In the Portuguese Court last night, while the Minister for Foreign Affairs was reading the provisions of the proposed Anglo-Portuguese treaty for…

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Lambton Police Court. Wednesday, September 17. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Assaulting the Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 September 1890 · page 7

MARK BELL, junior, was charged with assaulting Constable D. Fay in the execution of his duty at Lambton, on the 15th instant. Accused pleaded guilty…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Wednesday. Charge of Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 September 1890 · page 5

Alfred Turner was tried at the Criminal Sessions for the wilful murder of Edith Jane Jubb. The parties had been living together for the last few years, both being separated…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, 17Th September. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) School Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 September 1890 · page 7

MR. BARNARD, school attendance officer, appeared to prosecute David Dunn, Hexham, for neglecting to send his child to school, and a fine of 2s and costs, with 1s expenses,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, September 17. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M, and G. C. Martin and W. H. Shaw, Js.P.) "D. and D."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 September 1890 · page 6

JOHN RICE, 55, a labourer, was fined 10s' in default 48 hours' lookup, for having been drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street on the 16th instant…

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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, September 18. (Before Mr. R. I. Porrott, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 September 1890 · page 3

THE only business of the court to-day was a few school attendance cases, when the following parties were dealt with for not sending their children the required number of days to…

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, September 18. (Before Mr. T. Grierson, J.p.) Alleged Threatening

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 September 1890 · page 5

GEORGE EVANS, a young man, was charged on arrest by warrant, with threatening his wife and young child in a very harsh manner…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, September 18. (Before Major Bolton and Mr. Keightley, Js.P.) Drunk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 September 1890 · page 6

JAMES TAYLOR, 38, an engineer, received at penalty of 5s, or 24 hours' lookup, for drunkenness. Alleged Larceny…

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Dramatic Murder in France

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1890 · page 9

SOME strange facts have come to light in connection with the murder of Esposito Doborogo, an Italian (says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Chronicle). The…

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Police Capture by Bicycle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1890 · page 3

ISAAC CROMPTON, shoemaker, Dublin, was recently sent 40 days to prison at Peterhead Police Court for the theft of a sealskin jacket. After pawning the jacket Crompton left…

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Lambton Police Court. Friday, September 20. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Indecent Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1890 · page 2

Frederick Lipsey pleaded guilty to a charge of using indecent language in the Wallarah Hotel, Catherine Hill Bay, on the 29th ult., and was fined l and costs, in default 14…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, September 19. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Thorn and Asher, Js.P.) Disobedience

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1890 · page 2

DONALD M'DONALD, 38, a seaman, charged with wilfully disobeying lawful commands on board the B.R. ship Woollahra at Newcastle, on the 18th instant, was ordered to be sent…

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District Court, Newcastle. (Before His Honor Judge Wilkinson.) Cause List for Monday, September 22

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1890 · page 6

GRAY v Cohen and others, Borough of Newcastle v Lilley, Durham v Wallsend Municipal Council, Ireland v Bridges and Hodder, Gibson v Borough of New castle,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, September 20. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Major Bolton and Keightley, Js.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 September 1890 · page 6

Agnes O'Neill, 40; Jane Burt, 43; end Martin Driscoll, 23, a seaman, were each fined 5s, with an alternative of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness…

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Strike Cases in Court. Saturday's Trials. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 September 1890 · page 6

THE charges against the persons arrested for participation in Friday's disturbance were heard at the police courts yesterday. The courts were crowded, and the greatest…

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District Court, Newcastle. (Before His Honor Judge Wilkinson.) Cause List for To-day (Monday)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 September 1890 · page 6

GRAY v Cohen and others, Borough of Newcastle v Lilley, Durham v Wallsend Municipal Council, Ireland v Bridges and Hodder, Gibson v Borough of Newcastle,…

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