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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1890

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. Mair, District Registrar in Insolvency.) Re Griffith and Outram

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 October 1890 · page 3

THE adjourned hearing of this case was continued, when John Frederick Griffith, being further examined by Mr. Moore, said he told Mr. Creer that he had sent a case of pictures…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, October 25. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 October 1890 · page 3

CHARLES ANDERSON, aged 21, a Norwegian, and James Hennesy, 32, an Irish sailor, were fined 5s or 24 hours' imprisonment for having been drunk…

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Mysterious Murder of a Woman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 October 1890 · page 4

LONDON, Saturday.—A horrible murder has been committed at Hampstead, where the corpse of a woman was found on the road last night with her head nearly severed…

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District News. Wallsend. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1890 · page 5

THERE was a clean sheet at the court house this morning, the cases set down for hearing against the Wallarah miners having been withdrawn, consequent on the men having…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, October 27. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1890 · page 7

THOMAS CORBETT, 22, a seaman, and George Lewis, 34, a seaman, were each fined 10s, with an option of forty-eight hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness…

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Our Special Messages. The Hampstead Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1890 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—In connection with the brutal murder of a woman at Hampstead, the body of the baby, which was supposed to have been wheeled away from the scene…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, October 28. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 October 1890 · page 6

THOMAS KELLY, 58, a seaman, was fined 5s, in default 24 hours' lookup, for drunkenness. Deemed to be insane…

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Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, 28Th October. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 October 1890 · page 8

ANDREW RAY, an old man, pleaded guilty to drunkenness in Morehead-street on the 28th instant; but, in consideration of having been locked up all night, and on promising not to…

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Our Special Messages The Hampstead Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 October 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The woman who was arrested for the murder of another woman at Hampstead last week was brought before the court yesterday, when an application by the…

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The Wallarah Contract Case. Decision of the Full Court. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 October 1890 · page 5

THE case of the Wallarah mines came before the Full Court to-day, on the application of John Sparring for a rule nisi for prohibition directed against the magistrates who fined…

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Summons Division. Alleged Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1890 · page 7

Henry Harle was called on to answer an information charging him with having assaulted Margaret Harle, but, as the parties did not appear, the…

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The Hampstead Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1890 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—The inquest on the bodies of the woman and child who was brutally murdered at Hampstead last week was continued to day. The woman Pearcy…

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Special Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1890 · page 6

Application was made for a booth and stand license, by George M Leod, of the Belmont Hotel, to be used on the occasion of the Belmont Regatta…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, October 29. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) an Apology

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1890 · page 6

JOHN GWATKIN summoned John O' Hearn for assault at South Burwood, on the 24th instant. Mr. T. Cronin appeared for the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, October 29. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and W. H. Shaw, J.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1890 · page 7

THOMAS CLARKE, 40, a labourer; Thomas Smith, 50, a seaman; and Louis Lindeman, 28, a seaman, were each fined 5s, with the usual…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. Mair, District Registrar in Insolvency.) Re Michael Cantwell

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1890 · page 7

Bankrupt stated that he had been insolvent about three and a-half years ago, and his present bankruptcy had been caused by losses on contracts…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 October 1890 · page 6

AN application was made by Mr. Manning for the removal of a wine license from premises recently occupied by Mr. Wyndham, in Hunter-street,…

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ADELAIDE. Strike of Foundrymen. Sentences for Assault. ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 October 1890 · page 5

Matters passed off quietly at Port Adelaide to-day. The men employed at Fulton and Co.'s foundry, numbering 200, have refused to…

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Our Special Messages. Murder and Lunacy. LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 October 1890 · page 5

The murder of a woman and child at Hampstead continues almost entirely to engross public attention. Hogg, the husband of the murdered woman, has confessed to…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, October 30. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and G. C. Martin, W. H. Shaw, and Weir, Js.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 October 1890 · page 6

JOHN M'LEAN , 26, a labourer, and Richard Kelly, 52, a butcher, were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours in the lockup, for drunkenness…

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