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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1893

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, March 28. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 March 1893 · page 7

FOUR labourers named William Jones, Edward Howe, William Conley, and Michael Liddey, and a waterman named Henry Limeburner, were each…

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Alleged Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1893 · page 5

A SEAMAN named John Clune was locked up yesterday charged with stealing 12s from the person of one William Bell. The accused will be charged at the Police Court this…

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Summons Cases. Alleged Language and Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1893 · page 6

George Pierce sued William Marsden for using indecent language and assaulting him at Carrington on the 18th instant…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, March 29. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Fruit Pilferers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1893 · page 3

THOMAS YOUNG, John M'Greevy, and David Farry, youths, wore charged with stealing a number of quinces, valued at 2s, from the property of…

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Alleged Robbery of Gold. a Boy Charged. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1893 · page 5

THOMAS O'LEARY, a boy about 15. was charged before the Water Police Bench this morning with the theft of 6½oz of gold, the property of the Australian Drug Co. The…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, March 29. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Martin, J.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1893 · page 6

A MARRIED woman named Elizabeth Low, and a seaman named James Ray, were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for…

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The Prisoners Sentenced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 5

At 2 o'clock Mr. Justice Stephen took his seat on the Darlinghurst bench, and the prisoners, John and Sarah Makin, were both placed in the dock…

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Newcastle Police Court Thursday, March 30. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Martin and Shaw, Js.P.) A Seaman's Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 8

A SEAMAN named John Harrold was sharged with having been absent without leave from the British-registered ship Scottish Dales. Mr. Readett conducted the defence…

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Sentenced to Be Flogged. Prisoner Appeals. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 April 1893 · page 5

THIS morning the man William Walsh, who was sentenced on Thursday morning to receive 20 lashes for gross indecency in Arthur-street, Surry Hills, was to have been whipped at the…

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Newcastle Police Court Saturday, April 1. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Shaw and Thorn, Js.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 April 1893 · page 6

A MINER named Oliffe Johnson was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lookup, for drunkenness. Drunk and Obscene…

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Maitland Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1893 · page 5

FOLLOWING is the list of Newcastle cases set down for hearing at the Maitland Circuit Court, which opens at 10 o'clock this morning:—James Nicholas, breaking and…

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Newcastle Police Court Monday, April 3. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Shaw, J.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1893 · page 3

Two seamen named Joseph Kellie and Herman Phillips, a labourer named Patrick Glynn and a miner named…

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Maitland Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 April 1893 · page 3

THIS Court opened yesterday, before Mr. Justice Stephen, when the following cases were dealt with :—James O'Brien, indicted on a charge…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Tuesday. Verdicts of Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 April 1893 · page 5

A verdict of murder has been returned against Madame Harper, in connection with the death of Elizabeth Marshall's baby; and a similar verdict was given against some…

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Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, April 4. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Drunkenness and Obscenity

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 April 1893 · page 3

THOMAS PARKES pleaded guilty to being drunk in Grainger-street on the 30th ult., and was admonished and discharged. For using obscene language…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, April 4. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Martin, J.p.) a Remanded Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 April 1893 · page 6

A LABOURER named Edward Telford was brought up, on remand, as a person of unsound mind. The police stated that the accused…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Wednesday. Three Years for Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1893 · page 4

Joseph H. St. Clair, an American bully, who stabbed Patrick Buckley at Port Wake-field, on March 11th, was to-day sentenced to three years' imprisonment at the Criminal…

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Maitland Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1893 · page 8

AT the above-named court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Stephen, Frank Trew was indicted on a charge of murdering an old man named Charles Nasby at Lochinvar on the…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, April 5. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Martin, J.p.) Summons Cases. Alleged Wife Desertion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1893 · page 7

WILLIAM GIDNEY was charged with having deserted his wife. Margaret Gidney, the complainant, said the defendant left her on the 1st…

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Newcastle Police Court Thursday, April 6. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 April 1893 · page 6

A SEAMAN named Christian Nelson was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness. A Street Fracas.—Accused Remanded…

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