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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1892

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The Windsor Murder. a Dark Career. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1892 · page 5

DETECTIVE CAWSEY, of Melbourne, arrived by the express this morning in company with Max Hirschfeldt, who was a fellow passenger of Williams, the supposed Windsor…

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West Australia. Assault with an Axe

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 March 1892 · page 6

Two men named Hunt and Cooper were drinking together at Berkshire Valley a few days ago. A quarrel arose and Cooper attacked Hunt with…

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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, March 17. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 March 1892 · page 7

AT the Police Court the business done was a number of school-attendance cases, when School-attendance officer Bernard proceeded against the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, March 17. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) D. and D.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 March 1892 · page 6

ROBERT LLOYD, 31, a miner, was fined 10s, with the usual alternative, for having been drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street, on the previous…

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Execution of Schneider. He Will Murder No More Girls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 March 1892 · page 4

VIENNA, Thursday.—The execution of Schneider, who was sentenced to death in January for having, with his wife's assistance, murdered several servant girls after…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Larr[?]kinism in Sydney. Police Returns. Rai[?]way Contracts Conciliation and Arbitra[?]ion Bill. Land Boilers Inspection [?]l. SYDNEY, Thursd[?]y

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 March 1892 · page 5

AFTER our report of the proceedings on Wednesday night, the Trades Disputes Conciliation and Arbitration Bill was further considered in committee, but no important…

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South Australia. Alleged Indecent Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 March 1892 · page 2

Talbot Bridgewater, describing himself as a medical specialist, was charged at the Police Court with indecently assaulting Sophie Young, a married woman, who went…

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The Hunter-street Assault Case. Again Adjourned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 March 1892 · page 3

James Finnigan, 21, an Irish seaman, and Thomas Speedy, 30, an English sailor, were charged, on remand from Monday, with having, on the evening of the 14th inst.,…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. a Barbarous Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 March 1892 · page 5

A coloured man named Thomas Green was at the Water Police Court this afternoon remanded until to-morrow on a charge of having attempted to stab Edward Hatton…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, March 18. (Before Messrs. Mair, P.M., and Thorn, J.P.) Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 March 1892 · page 3

JOHN HENNESSEY, 39, a shoemaker, pleaded guilty, and was fined £3, or in default 14 days' imprisonment, for having made use of obscene language in Hunter-street on the…

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Summons Court. a Trumpery Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 March 1892 · page 3

Agnes Pritchard, a married woman, living at Carrington, was charged by Johnnah Ellis, another married woman, with having unlawfully given an unstamped receipt for…

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Wanted by the English Police. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 March 1892 · page 5

A cable has just been received by his Excellency the Governor and handed to the police, from the Colonial Office, London, asking that if the charge against Williams…

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Died in Gaol. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 March 1892 · page 5

An inquest was commenced yesterday on the body of Jno. Bellin, aged 65, who died in Geelong Gaol while undergoing a sentence of five years' imprisonment, for extensive…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, March 19. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) No Tickets

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 March 1892 · page 3

FOUR seamen named Henry Lucas, James Donnelly, James Neill, and Thomas M'Guire were each fined 20s, with an option of seven days' gaol, for having travelled from Sydney…

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Identified by the Hull Police. His Conduct in Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 March 1892 · page 5

The Hull police identified a portrait of Frederick Deeming as that of Lawson, who married Miss Matheson at Beverley. When in prison he stated that he was…

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Alleged Theft of a Purse

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 March 1892 · page 5

A MADRID woman named Ellen Whiteburst, aged 42, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Sergeant Thompson, charged with stealing a purse containing the sum of £1…

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The Condobolin Murder. Inquest. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 March 1892 · page 5

THE body of Stone, the murderer, was found by his father yesterday morning at 6 o'clock when out on the common looking for horses. It [?] at the edge of a lagoon shot through…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, March 21. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Colin Christie, J.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 March 1892 · page 7

WILLIAM DUNN, 45, labourer; Elizabeth Bray, 29, a married woman; and John Davis 34, a seaman, were each fined 5s, or in default twenty-four hour' imprisonment,…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, March 21. (Before Messrs. R. I. Perrott, P.M., and J. Richardson, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 March 1892 · page 7

D. FORRESTING, charged with being drunk and making use of obscene language in Mary-street on Sunday, was fined £1 for being drunk, and 10s for the language. The flues…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, March 22. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Thorn, J.P.) Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 March 1892 · page 7

JAMES M'DONALD, 42, cook; Sarah Peel, a married woman; and Thomas Blashford, 36, labourer, were each fined 5s, or 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk on the…

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