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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1891

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 3

PETER NELSON, 48, a seaman, Thomas Pinketon,32, a labourer, and Henry Morris, 62, a waterman, were fined in sums ranging from 5s to 10s, with the usual alternatives, for…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, June 20. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Christie, J.P.) Drunk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 June 1891 · page 3

THOMAS PINKERTON, 32, a baker, was fined 5s, in default 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness. Straying…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Sunday. Police Grievances

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 June 1891 · page 5

The police want to hold a meeting of the force to discuss their grievances, but the commissioner strongly objects, and says he will have no objection to receive a…

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Burglary Lad. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 June 1891 · page 5

A LAD named George Simmons stood in the dock at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, on a charge of breaking and entering Mr. John Sandy's warehouse, York-street, on April 18…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 22. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 June 1891 · page 6

BERNARD CAIN, 46, a labourer, Thomas Thompson, 45, a labourer, were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness…

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Tragedy at Waterloo. Attempted Murder and Suicide. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 June 1891 · page 5

A TRAGEDY of a most startling nature occurred in Hanover-street, Waterloo, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, when a young man named James Francis Pride attempted to…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, June 23. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) D. and D.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 June 1891 · page 6

WILLIAM JONES, 18, a seaman, was fined 10s, in default three days' gaol, for having been drunk and disorderly in Mitchell-street, Stockton, on the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, June 24. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) D. and D.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 June 1891 · page 6

CLARISSA BOYLE, 19, was fined 20s, in default seven days' gaol, for having been drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street on the previous day…

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Private Secretary's Troubles. Scarlett Before the Court. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 June 1891 · page 5

ROBERT SCARLETT, late manager of the Colonial Ice Company, Limited, and formerly secretary to a New South Wales Premier, was arraigned at the Darlinghurst Sessions…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, June 26. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Thorn, J.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1891 · page 2

BESSIE DORN, 32, Agnes O'Neill, 33, and William Smiley, 23, a seaman, were each fined 5s, with an alternative of twenty-four hours' lockup, for drunkenness…

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Parisian Bakers' Strike. Collision with the Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1891 · page 5

PARIS, Thursday.—The employees of the chief bakeries of this city have struck work, and collisions have taken place between the strikers and the police…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, June 29Th. (Before R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Indecent Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1891 · page 3

BENJAMIN MILLER was charged with making use of indecent language in Mary-street, Plattsburg, on the 26th instant. A second charge of assault,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 29. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and G. C. Martin.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1891 · page 3

JOHN COYLE, 45, a labourer; George Scott, 40, a labourer; Joseph Coultherd, 42, a seaman; John Archer, 40, a miner; John W. G. Green, 32, a…

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Alleged Indecent Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 July 1891 · page 5

BETWEEN 5 and 6. o'clock last evening, Detective M'Hattie and Constable Strachan proceeded to the house of a man named Macfarlane, who is by occupation a tailor,…

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Marriage Question. Police Court Sidelights. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 July 1891 · page 5

AT the Redfern Police Court, to-day, Margaret Delynack sued her husband for maintenance. She declared that she would not go back again under any circumstances;…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, June 30. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 July 1891 · page 6

THOMAS BRAY, 39, a labourer; Annie Watson, 29; and William M'Kinlay, 28, a seaman, were each fined 5s, with an option of twenty-fours' lockup, for…

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Drunken Assault. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1891 · page 5

CHARLES MITCHELL, a shoemaker, who recently arrived from England, got three months' hard labour in the police court, to-day, for brutally assaulting a woman, named…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, July 1. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and G. C. Martin, J.P.) Alleged Indecent Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1891 · page 6

EDWARD STEWDRD, 23, an athlete, was charged by warrant that he did at Newcastle on the 29th ult, indecently assault one Lavinia Cleaves, a girl…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Wednesday. Gaol Life

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1891 · page 5

In consequence of violence among the Pentridge prisoners, orders have been given to strengthen warders in A Division, where most of the outbreaks lately occurred…

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District Court Revenue

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 July 1891 · page 7

MR. H. W. H. HUNTINGDON, the Newcastle District Court Registrar, reports having paid the sum of £220 to the Colonial Treasurer, revenue received…

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