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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1893

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A Publican Before the Court. Technical Point Raised. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 June 1893 · page 5

RICHARD E. SMITH, licensee of the Lily of St. Leonards Hotel, Milson's Point was to-day summoned for having (1) delayed admittance to the police (2) with having suffered…

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Alleged Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1893 · page 7

Sarah Hornery, a married woman, surrendered to her bail and was arraigned on a charge of having at Giant's Creek, near Denman, on May…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. Stealing a Letter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1893 · page 5

A YOUTH named Kemp received a sentence of six months' imprisonment at Coonabarabran Quarter Sessions for larceny as a bailee by stealing a letter when driving the mail coach…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, June 21. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Martin and O'Mara, Js.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1893 · page 3

A LABOURER named James Tilford was fined 5s, with the option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness, and was ordered to pay £2, or seven days' gaol…

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France and Siam. the Murder of a French Officer. Indemnity Granted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1893 · page 5

PARIS, Tuesday.—In reply to the demand made by the French Government for reparation for the murder of M. Grosgurins, the French officer the…

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Bare Island Fortifications. Decision of the Full Court. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1893 · page 5

THE Full Court to-day delivered judgment in the appeal case Attorney-General v. M'Leod, in which the defendant sought a new trial on a number of grounds. Sir W…

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Charge of Murder in America

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 June 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The trial of the girl Lizzie Borden, who was charged with the murder of her father and mother at Fall River,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, June 22. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Martin and Shaw, Js.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 June 1893 · page 6

MARGARET RILEY and a miner named William Maddison were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness…

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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, June 22. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.M., and Mr. T. Fryar, J.p.) Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 June 1893 · page 6

H. BUCHANAN, junior, charged with obscene language, was fined 5s, and 5s 6d costs. Elizabeth Wilson summoned A…

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Bankruptcy Court. Thursday, June 22. (Before Mr. Mair, District Registrar in Bankruptcy.) Re James A. Cunneen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 June 1893 · page 7

MR. R. DALTON was shown as a proved creditor for £27 8s 4d. Bankrupt said he had never previously been insolvent. He was a…

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Newcastle Police Court Friday, June 23. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Thorn, J.P.) Unsound Mind

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1893 · page 3

A YOUNG woman named Henrietta Rogers was brought up as a person of unsound mind. Constable Duffell deposed to having…

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The City Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 June 1893 · page 5

THE only business before Mr. Mair, P.M., in the Police Court on Saturday morning was the treatment of three cases of drunkenness. John Williams, 26, fireman, and George…

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Brutal Murder by Larrikins. a Man Kicked to Death. Eight Arrests. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 June 1893 · page 5

A SENSATIONAL murder by larrikins occurred at Miller's Point this morning. From the meagre particulars available it appears that a wharf labourer named Thos. Pert, aged 37,…

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A Peculiar Assault Case. a Police Constable Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 June 1893 · page 6

JAMES DWYER, a constable in the city police force, was charged by Frank Spence, a West India sailor, in the summons division of the Police Court…

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Wallsend Police Court. Saturday, June 24. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.M., Horse Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 June 1893 · page 3

RALPH SIDEBOTTOM, of Awaba, was brought up on a charge of stealing a horse, the property of John Mahoney, of Plattsburg…

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The Miller's Point Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 June 1893 · page 4

AT the beginning of last parliamentary session the Government promised, in the Governor's speech, to bring in a bill for the suppression of larrikinism…

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Summons Court. The Tenants Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 June 1893 · page 7

T. Johnson was sued by Georgina Grisdale for possession of a house situated in Wolfe-street, in which the defendant had lived for some months…

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Newcastle Police Court Monday, June 26. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. John Burke, J.P.) Only One

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 June 1893 · page 7

WILLIAM LESLIE SNEDDEN, age 25, a Scotch seaman, was fined 10s, or in default 48 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk on the Market…

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Religious Disturbance at Rangoon. the Police Fire on the Rioters. Streets Cleared by the Military

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 June 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Intelligence to hand from Rangoon states that serious rioting took place there yesterday between the Mohammedan and Hindoo…

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The Miller's Point Murder. Another Arrest. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 June 1893 · page 5

THE post-mortem examination on the body of the man Thomas Pert, who was murdered at Miller's Point on Sunday, was completed at a late hour last night at the South Sydney…

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