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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1891

946 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 48

Alleged Criminal Assault. Another Mount Rennie Sensation. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 December 1891 · page 5

AT the Redfern Police Court yesterday Edward Peate, a cubman, was charged with attempting a criminal assault on Tamer Lowe. The prosecutrix, who has only been in the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 18. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Thorn and Christie, Js.P.) Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 December 1891 · page 2

PATRICK WALTERS, 23, a labourer, was fined £2, with an option of 14 days' gaol, for having used indecent language in Hunter-street on the 17th inst…

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Alleged Stealing. £16 and a Plug of Tob cco

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 December 1891 · page 4

A MAN named James Fitzgibbons, of Carrington, reported to Senior-Constable Mears yesterday morning that he had been relieved on the previous evening of the sum of £16…

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Correspondence Want of Police Protection for North Waratah. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 December 1891 · page 6

Sir,—Some time ago North Waratah was visited by a gang of burglars, residents' houses were broken into and robbed, and the matter was reported to the head of the police in…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Saturday, December 19. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Licenses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 December 1891 · page 7

THE license of James Owen, of the New Station Hotel, Hunters-street West, was transferred to David C. Harvey, the police having no…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Monday. Sentenced to a Flogging

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1891 · page 5

At North Melbourne a miscreant was sentenced to a flogging and three months' imprisonment. for misbehaving before children…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, December 21. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1891 · page 3

JAMES M'FADDEN, 64, a seaman; Robert Johnson, 25, a labourer; Andrew Whitelaw, 88, a seaman; Charles Saunders, 39, a labourer ; George Kearns, 57, a labourer;…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1891 · page 5

Richard Wood, landlord of the Bonnie Doon Hotel, Minmi, was charged by Senior-constable Rogers with neglecting to keep a light burning outside his licensed premises…

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Wallsend-Plattsburg Police Court. Monday, December 21. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Maintenance Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1891 · page 5

Catherine Lily Elselery v. Robert Scott, of Minmi. Mr. Cronin appeared for the defendant. James Elselery, father of the complain…

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CABLEGRAMS. Pugilistic. the Police Interfere

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1891 · page 5

NEW YORK, Monday.—On Saturday night Jem Hall undertook to floor the giant "Butcher" Forguson in Chicago. Hall was to stop him in six rounds. The Police…

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Lambton Police Court Tuesday, December 22. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) Sunday Drinking

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 December 1891 · page 6

GEORGE CURTISS pleaded guilty to being drunk at New Lambton on Sunday, the 20th instant, and was fined £1 and 6s 6d costs. D. AND D…

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Police Protection for North Waratah

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 December 1891 · page 5

WHAT regard to a letter signed "Victim's which appeared in Monday's issue of this journal, Inspector Brennan states that when the Waratah Municipal Council applied for…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, December 22. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Webb, J.P.) D. and D.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 December 1891 · page 7

JOHN CONWAY, 29, a labourer, and William Allanson, 23, a miner, were each fined 10s, with an option of 48 hours' lookup, for having been drunk and disorderly in…

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Assault and Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 December 1891 · page 7

AT the Police Court, yesterday, a respectable looking man named John Cullen was charged with having at Carrington, on the 17th instant, assaulted and used threatening…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 23. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 December 1891 · page 7

JAMES JONES, 61, a labourer; Kate Maslin, 45; John Rice, 45, a labourer; and John Hughes, 56, a seaman, were each fined 5s, with the usual option for drunkenness…

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West Australia. Another Supreme Court Judge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 December 1891 · page 7

A message has been received in the Assembly from the Administrator of the Government, recommending that provision be made for a salary for a third Judge of the Supreme…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, December 24. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and G. C. Martin and J. Thorn, Js.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 December 1891 · page 3

FREDERICK JENSEN, 42, no calling, was fined in the usual amount for drunkenness. D. and D. Christopher Leonard, 49, a labourer, was…

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Sentenced in France

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 December 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—Two Englishmen have been sentenced at St. Etienne to fifteen and two month imprisonment respectively an alleged attempt to obtain…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, December 26. Before Messrs. Martin and Brooks, Js.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 December 1891 · page 6

JOHN BRADY, 31, a seaman, James Mills, 42, a baker, and David Denningham, 39, a seaman, were ordered to be imprisoned till the rising of the…

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A Farisian Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 December 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—A sub-lieutenant in the French army named Anastang, has been arrested in car is charged with the murder of the Brooess Dollard under…

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