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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1893

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A Liverpool Murder. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 July 1893 · page 8

AT the Central Criminal Court this morning, before Sir Frederick Darley and a jury of 12, a youth named Joseph Ward was presented on an indictment charging him with having…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, July 26. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) An Unproved Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 July 1893 · page 2

JOSEPH PEREON, described as a groom, aged 89 years, was charged with wilful and obscene exposure in Darby-street, in the presence of a little girl…

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Summons Court. Straying Animals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 July 1893 · page 2

Thomas Lloyd, inspector of nuisances, proceeded against several persons for allowing animals to stray in public places. Mr. Street-ranger…

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The Liverpool Murder. Ward Sentenced to Ten Years. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 July 1893 · page 5

AT the Central Criminal Court to-day the trial of Joseph Ward, for the murder of Charles Campbell on July 4, was a continued before the Chief Justice, who reviewed the…

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Bankruptcy Court. Thursday, July 27. (Before Mr. Mair, District Registrar in Bankruptcy)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 July 1893 · page 3

THE following examinations were held:— Hugh Downie said he was a fireman, and that his insolvency was…

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Case of Assault at Adelaide. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1893 · page 5

William Brown, a unionist seaman, at Port Adelaide, was fined 35s or 14 days for throwing a stone at a man who was painting the funnel of the steamer Bulimba, Ho went…

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, July 27. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) an Expensive Ride

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1893 · page 7

ROBERT CREEN was charged with refusing to pay the fare on the tram from Wallsend on the previous day. Sergeant Salter and Mr. Murray, tramway…

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Newcastle Police Court Friday, July 28. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Thorn, J.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1893 · page 3

JOHN GRIFFITH, 58. seaman, was fined the usual 5s, or in, default, 24 hours' gaol, for having been drunk on the Market Wharf on the previous evening…

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Summons Court. a Medicine Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1893 · page 3

Joseph Lane was charged by Tedbar Barden, of Newtown, Sydney, with having fraudulently appropriated a quantity of patent medicine, valued at £8 is in October…

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Frauds in the Department of Education. Scott Sentenced. Seven Years' Penal Servitude. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1893 · page 5

AT the Central Criminal Court this afternoon, Hugh Alexander Scott, ex-accountant of the Instruction Department, who recently pleaded guilty on two charges of stealing cheques,…

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Newcastle Police Court Saturday, July 29. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 July 1893 · page 6

A LABOURER named Martin Wallace, and a seaman named Richard Patterson were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness…

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Summons Court. Breach of Railway Bylaws

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 July 1893 · page 6

Edward Bowling was fined 20s, with 5s 6d costs, levy and distress, for infringing a railway bylaw in entering a railway carriage while the train was…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, July 31. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Alleged Indecent Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1893 · page 3

JAMES CARTWRIGHT, James Donn, and Peter Carroll were charged with using indecent language to one Llemeo Aurelius, at Teralba, on Friday, the…

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Newcastle Police Court Monday, July 31. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. O'Mara, J.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1893 · page 7

A. TRINDALL, carpenter, T. Carney and E. Dixon, seamen, and J. Edwards and W. Winden, firemen, were fined in sums ranging from 5s to 10s, with…

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The Miller's Point Murder. the Accused on Trial. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1893 · page 5

THE trial of the eight young men who were committed for trial for the murder of Thomas Pert, at Miller's Point, on June 25, were brought up for trial at the Central Criminal…

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Wallsend Bankruptcy Court Monday, July 31. (Before W. E. Henry, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1893 · page 3

EDWARD OWEN, an old man, and a widower, said that the reason of his bankruptcy was sickness, want of employment during the past eight years,…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday. the Murder of a Hawker

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 August 1893 · page 5

An application was made to the Full Court to-day to state a case for an appeal on behalf of John Condor, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Kaiza Singh, on the ground…

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The Miller's Point Murder. the Trial Continued. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 August 1893 · page 5

THE trial of the men charged with the Miller's Point murder was continued to-day at the Central Criminal Court before Judge Innes…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, August 1. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. J. R. Rodgers, J.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 August 1893 · page 6

T. PRIDY, miner, and H. Dunbar, engineer, were each fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness…

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The Miller's Point Murder. Third Day of the Trial. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 August 1893 · page 5

THE Miller's Point murder trial was continued at the Central Criminal Court to-day, before Judge Innes. Martin White, re-called, was…

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