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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1890

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Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, December 2Nd. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Small Debts

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

J. CONNELLY v. C. Maddison, claiming 10s, being plaintiff's share of a wager which was made between another person and plaintiff, and which…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, December 2. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Martin, J.P.) Inebriates

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

CHARLES CLARKE, James Martin, Thomas Carroll, and George Tarrant, pleaded guilty to charges of having indulged too freely in strong drink…

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Victoria. Strike Cases in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 December 1890 · page 6

Messsrs. Bennett, Woolcock, and Co., the largest butchering establishment in Melbourne, have issued summonses against seven of the striking…

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Court of Petty Sessions at Swansea. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 December 1890 · page 5

IN to-day's Government Gazette appears a proclamation establishing a Court of Petty Sessions at Swansea, to exercise civil and criminal jurisdiction within the Newcastle…

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An Episode of the Strike. a Case in the Full Court. BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 December 1890 · page 5

THE Full Court to-day quashed the conviction of the magistrate at Roma in fining George Taylor, a labour delegate of the Shearers' Union, £190 for ordering twelve…

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Newcastle District Court. Tuesday, December 2. Second Day. (Before His Honor Judge Wilkinson.)

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

THE court resumed its sittings at 10 o'clock. Borough of Newcastle v. Fieldhouse In this case the Borough Council of…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Wednesday. the Healesville Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 December 1890 · page 5

On the bundle of Fatta Chand, the alleged murderer of the Indian hawker, being examined to-day by the merchant who sold them both goods, he identified a large number…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 3. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and G. C. Martin, J.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 December 1890 · page 6

JAMES MURNANE, 55, a farmer; Elizabeth Brandon, 50; Billy Edwards, 65, an aboriginal; Thomas Draper, 44, an engineer; and Robert Stevenson, 57, a…

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Newcastle District Court. Wednesday, December 3. Third Day. (Before His Honor Judge Wilkinson.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 December 1890 · page 7

THE Court resumed its sittings at 10 o'clock. Gibson v. the Borough Council. This case, which was part heard on…

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Greta Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 December 1890 · page 3

THE following cases appeared on Wednesday, before Mr. J. N. Brooks, P.M., and Mr. W. C. Green, J.P.:— Robert Bellamy, for indecent…

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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, 4Th December. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Sunday Drinking

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 December 1890 · page 3

ONE case of Sunday drinking in West Wallsend was brought on, and defendant was fined 20s, and 5s 6d costs. OBSCENE LANGUAGE…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, December 4. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and G. C. Martin, J.P.). Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 December 1890 · page 6

ELLEN TAYLOR, 40, and John Miller, 58, a labourer, were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness…

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Newcastle District Court. Thursday, December 4. Fourth Day. (Before His Honor Judge Wilkinson.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 December 1890 · page 7

THE Court resumed its sittings at 10 o' clock. Hogue v. Sweetland and Others. A TEST CASE…

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Alleged Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 December 1890 · page 5

ABOUT 11 o'clock yesterday morning a young man named Thomas Bennett called for a glass of refreshment at the Crystal Palace Hotel, and tendered a £1 note in payment…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 5. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Thorn, J.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 December 1890 · page 3

JOHN BROWN, 40, a cook s; James Mason, 50, a labourer; and Thomas M'Connell, 22, a labourer, were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours lockup, for drunkenness…

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(From Sydney and Melbourne Papers.) The Hampstead Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 December 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Night.—The trial was concluded to-day of a woman named Mrs. Pearcey, charged with the murder, at South Hampstead, on October 24, of a Mrs…

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Use of the Title M.D. A Case in Court. ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 December 1890 · page 5

A MAN named Talbot Bridgewater, who, under the title of Dr. Bridgewater, has been advertising and practising largely in Adelaide for some months, was prosecuted in the…

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Newcastle District Court. Friday, December 5. Fifth Day. (Before His Honor Judge Wilkinson). Stacka v Anderson

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 December 1890 · page 3

THE hearing of the action, in which Frederick Stacka, butcher, sought to recover from Hans Anderson, a publican, in Hamilton, the sum for £200 as compensation of alleged…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, December 6. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and G. C. Martin, J.P.) D. and D.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 December 1890 · page 6

A DISSIPATED-LOOKING woman named Ellen Taylor was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street on the previous day…

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Newcastle District Court. Saturday, December 6. Sixth Day. (Before His Honor Judge Wilkinson). The Wickham Subsidences. HOGUE V. the Ferndale Coal Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 December 1890 · page 6

THE Wickham subsidence case, which was heard on Thursday, when his Honor decided to view the property, came up for judgment. It was an…

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