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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1891

946 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 48

Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, 22Nd July. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 July 1891 · page 8

THE license of the Post-office Hotel, Waratah, was transferred from Nat Hewson to William Wallace, in accordance with application made…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, July 22. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. G. C. Martin, J.P.) Drunk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 July 1891 · page 7

THOMAS HENRY COOPER, age 40, was fined 5s, or 24 hours, for having been drunk in Hunter-street on the previous evening…

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Wallsend Police Court. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Thursday, July 23. Alleged Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 July 1891 · page 6

G. LAWRENCE, alias George Wilson, was charged by Richard Southon with stealing the sum of £8 on the 18th July…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 July 1891 · page 8

THREE men named Jeremiah Hayes, age 30; John Blair, 37; and Peter Toland, 35, a sea cook, were arrested yesterday afternoon on a charge of assaulting and robbing another…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 July 1891 · page 6

George Lindsay, licensee of the Crystal Palace Hotel, applied to have his license transferred to Albert Beaumont.—There being no police…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, July 23. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Shaw and Martin, J.'sP.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 July 1891 · page 6

JAMES TAYLOR, age 54, enginedriver; Thomas Brown, age 33, seaman, and William Walsh, age 41, a seaman, were each fined 5s, or in default…

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Wholesale Child Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 July 1891 · page 12

IN Liverpool (England) and the neighbourhood, several children have lately been stolen by women of a low type, and the police have been kept…

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Alleged Theft of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 July 1891 · page 5

ROBERT JAMIESON, a coal-trimmer, and John Blair, a sailor, were arrested last evening by Constable Hayes, on a charge of stealing coal from the Hunter River Steamship…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, July 24. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 July 1891 · page 3

JOHN COOK, age 50, seaman; John Brown, age 40, labourer; Annie Maloney, age 28; and David Gemmell, 21, a labourer, were each fined 5s, or, in default, twenty-four hours'…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, July 25. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 July 1891 · page 6

WILLIAM JONES, age 22, butcher, John chenhall, age 29, miner, Michael Devine, labourer, 37, and John Barrett, age 73, were each fined…

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Pugilist in the Police Court. Passage with the Attorney-General. ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1891 · page 5

A MAN named J. Evans was fined £5 at the Police Court for punishing another man named Wiener, in the stalls of the Theatre Royal. An effort was made to show that…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, July 27. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1891 · page 6

SAMUEL BAXTER, 46, cook; Michael James, 24; Edward Swanson, 32; Henry Henrickson, 40, seamen; Geo. Darsell, 20, labourer; Evan Timbley,…

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Sensational Shooting. Attempted Murder of a Wife and Others. Premiscuous Firing. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1891 · page 5

A SENSATIONAL shooting affray took place at Deniliquin this morning. A man named George Cole, who followed the occupation of wood-carter, had been summoned by his…

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Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, July 28. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Assault Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 July 1891 · page 6

JOHN LLOYD was charged with unlawfully assaulting John Middlemas, at Lambton, on the night of the 22nd instant…

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Suicide in Gaol. a Debtor's Determined Deed. BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 July 1891 · page 5

PATRICK WILLIAM EARL, formerly a store-keeper at Geraldton, a confines in the Debtors' Gaol, Brisbane, committed suicide yesterday, by severing the main artery with…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, July 28. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Murray, J.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 July 1891 · page 6

FREDERICK NORMAN, alias Eggart, aged 20, seaman, and James Walsh, aged 49, wheelwright, were each fined 10s, or forty-eight hours, for…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, July 29. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 July 1891 · page 7

JOHN RICE, aged 52, a labourer, and David Gamble, aged 21, were the only drunks in the dock, and each were fined the usual 5s, or twenty-four…

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Tasmania. Trial for Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 July 1891 · page 6

In the Supreme Court, Arthur Cooley was found guilty of the wilful murder of Mary Camile Ogilvy, at Richmond, under circumstances of…

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Murder Cases. Hobart

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 July 1891 · page 5

IN the Sandy Bay murder case the jury did not agree, and the prisoner was remanded till next session. In the Richmond case, Cooley, a youth, was sentenced to death for…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, July 30. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Shaw and Martin, J.'sP.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 July 1891 · page 7

JOHN MURRAY, age 55, was fined 5s, or in default twenty-four hours', for having been drunk on the previous evening. For the same offence, Peter…

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