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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1894

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Newcastle Police Court Monday, March 19. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Burke, J.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1894 · page 6

J. RICHARDSON, miner; J. Dawson, labourer; and J. O'Ralloran, baker, were fined in sums ranging from 5s to 20s, with the usual alternatives, for…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, March 20. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Christie, J.P.) Alleged Abduction

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 March 1894 · page 6

PHILIP NEWSTEAD, 28, miner, was charged by warrant with abducting Esther Parker, a female under the age of 21 years, to wit 18 years of…

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Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, March 20. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Violation of the Coal Mines Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 March 1894 · page 3

FRANK CROUDACE, manager of the Lambton Colliery, owned by the Scottish-Australian Mining Company, was charged with neglecting to carry out…

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CABLEGRAMS. New Zealand L and M. A. Company. Directors in Court. Opinions of the Judge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 March 1894 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—Sir Roland Williams, the judge in the Bankruptcy Court, in delivering judgment on an application for the public…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, March 21. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Small Debts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1894 · page 3

PETHERBRIDGE, v. Boddy, claiming £1 5s 11d, for goods supplied. Verdict for plaintiff, with costs. Mrs. Tobin v. Carson, claiming £15…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1894 · page 7

WILLIAM MURRAY, 32, seaman, for having been drunk on the previous evening in Scott-street; and Charles Petersen, 24, seaman, for…

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Summons Court. Breaches of the Bylaws

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1894 · page 7

Stephon Cunningham pleaded guilty to a charge of having on the 15th instant scattered a number of handbills in Watt-street. Inspector Lloyd…

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The Balmain Child Murder. Mrs. Bayley Committed for Trial. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1894 · page 5

THE inquest on the body of the child Emily Bayley, who was killed by her mother, Sarah Bayley, in Rowntree-street, Balmain, on the 14th instant, was resumed at Balmain…

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The Stockton Fatality. a Deputy and Two Miners Charged with Manslaughter. Committed for Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1894 · page 6

IN the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Christie and O'Mara, Js.P., William James Akers, Andrew Herbert Darcy, miners,…

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Bankruptcy Court. Wednesday, March 21. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., the Registrar). Estate of R.C.Plack

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1894 · page 6

THE adjourned mooting of the creditors in the estate of Reginald Champness Pluck, plumber, of Islington, bankrupt, was held in the courthouse…

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Summons Court. Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1894 · page 2

Elizabeth Burns, a resident of Carrington, was charged by Senior-constable O'Mara with having used obscene language. As the woman did not appear a warrant was ordered…

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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, March 22. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Obscene Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1894 · page 3

JOHN HENRY DOUGLAS, a member of the Active Service Brigade, was charged with making use of obscene language in the Wallsend Park on Sunday, the 26th February,…

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Newcastle Police Court Thursday, March 22. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Martin, J.P.) Refusing 10 Obey

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1894 · page 2

JOHN HOOPER, 35, an American seaman, pleaded guilty to a warrant charging him with having disobeyed lawful commands on board the British ship Thomasina M'Clellan,…

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Suppression of Gambling. Atkinson and Morris Before the Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1894 · page 5

AT the Central Police Court yesterday, Robert Hope Atkinson and George Morris were changed with unlawfully setting up, keeping, and maintaining a certain lottery, to…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, March 24. (Before Mr. Martin, J.P.) Alleged Malicious Damage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 March 1894 · page 6

ALICE MARTIN was charged with having maliciously injured a paliasse, a picture, a bed, and a screen, the property of Fanny Leatherby, to the…

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The Police Fire on the Mob. Much Damage Done

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 March 1894 · page 4

SUDA PESTH, Saturday.—The rioting by University students, who are incensed at what they consider the want of respect shown to the death of…

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Newcastle Police Court Monday, March 26. (Before Messrs. Martin and Hays, Js.P.) Drunk and Disorderly

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1894 · page 6

THOMAS WILSON, carpenter, was fined 5s, with an alternative of 24 hours' lockup, for having been drunk and disorderly…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday March 27. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Martin and Christie, Js.P.) Drankenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1894 · page 6

GEORGE M. ROBINSON, seaman, and Thomas Harrison, labourer, were each fined 5s, with the option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness…

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Alleged Criminal Assault Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1894 · page 5

A SERIOUS case has been reported to the police from Newtown. A girl named Charlotte Mary Stuckey, aged 18, states that at 2 o'clock on Wednesday morning a man entered…

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Nihilism in Russia. a Police Raid

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1894 · page 5

ST. PETERSBURG, Wednesday.—Owing to the activity of the Nihilists in Odessa and St. Petersburg, the police have made a raid, making many…

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