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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1894

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The Barraba Tragedy. Admission by Cummins. Both Accused Before the Court. Incriminating Evidence. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 May 1894 · page 5

ALEXANDER LEE, who was remanded from Boggabri to Barraba on a charge of being one of the murderers of Mr. M'Kay at the bank of April 18, arrived at the latter place…

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A Naval Court-martial. a Paymaster Sentenced. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 May 1894 · page 5

A TRIAL by Court-Martial was held on board H.M.S. Orlando this morning. William Radcliffe Hart, assistant paymaster of the Orlando, a young man, 23 years of age, well…

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The Barraba Tragedy. Police Court Proceedings. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 May 1894 · page 5

THE men Cammins and Lee, charged on suspicion in connection with the murder of Mr. M'Kay, were again before the Barraba Police Court to-day…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, May 1. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Thorn, Clapin, and Christie, Js.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 May 1894 · page 6

ROBERT DEWEER, miner, was fined 5s, with an option of 24 hours' lockup, for drunkenness. Drunk and Disorderly…

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Contempt of Court. Application Against a Newspaper. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 May 1894 · page 5

IN the Full Court this afternoon, before the Chief Justice (Sir William Windeyer) and Mr. Justice Stephen, Mr. Fergusson appeared at the instance of Henry Crossley in…

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A New Caledonian Escapee. Appeal to the Full Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 May 1894 · page 5

AN application was made to the Full Court to-day, consisting of the Chief Justice, Sir William Windeyer and Justice Stephen, by Mr. Barton, Q.C., for a writ of habeas corpus…

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Greta Police Court. Wednesday, May 2. (Before Mr. J. N. Brooks, P.m.) Garnishee Issued

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

HUNT v. Carney.—The former had at a previous court obtained a verdict for £2 against the defendant for goods supplied, and he now applied for a…

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Summons Court. Straying Horses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 May 1894 · page 6

Edward T. Whitehouse, a butcher, of Stockton, was summoned by the inspector of nuisances of that place with having on April 11th allowed a…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, May 2. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Christie and Clapin, Js.P.) A Solitary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 May 1894 · page 6

THE only occupant of the dock was a German carpenter named Herman Scherrling, age 42, who had been drunk in Hunter-street on the…

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Labour Day in London. Anarchists Under Police Protection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 May 1894 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday. — Yesterday being Labour Day large crowds. assembled in Hyde Park to hear speeches by labour leaders and others…

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The Coxeyites at Washington. Dispersal by the Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 May 1894 · page 4

WASHINGTON, Wednesday. — The 400 Coxeyites who have marched to the capital to demand certain reforms from Congress, to-day formed a…

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The Conqueror-lily Collision. Application to the Full Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 May 1894 · page 5

THE Conqueror-Lily collision came under the notice of the Full Court, consisting of the Chief Justice, Sir William Windeyer, and Sir George Innes, to-day, on an application…

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Parliament. Wednesday, 2Nd May. Legislative Assembly. The Military Commandant. Municipal Endowments. The Arming of the Police. Sydney, Wednesday. the Speaker took the Chair at 4 30 p.m., Answers to Questions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 May 1894 · page 5

THE SPEAKER took the Chair at 4.30 p.m., ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Sir GEORGE DIBBS, in reply to Mr. WILLIS, said it was not a fact that…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Thursday. Alleged Horse Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 May 1894 · page 5

A man named John Bowman was arrested to-day, on a charge of stealing a horse which he had hired from the Collingwood livery stable…

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Newcastle Police Court Thursday, May 3. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 May 1894 · page 6

THOMAS CLEARY, 50, a man in whom the love of drink has assumed the character of a disease, was fined 5s, or in default 24 hours' in the lockup, for…

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The North Melbourne Murder. Inquest Continued

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 May 1894 · page 4

THE inquest on the body of the Frenchman Eugene Possett, the victim of the North Melbourne tragedy, was reopened to-day. Mitchell and Watson were present in…

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A Desperate Criminal. Manacled in Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 May 1894 · page 4

A POWERFULLY—BUILT man named John Joseph Moran was charged at the Redfern Police Court this afternoon with breaking and entering the dwelling of Alexander Robb,…

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The Unemployed in America. Serious Rioting at Cleveland. Police Charge the Mob

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 May 1894 · page 4

NEW YORK, Thursday.—The disturbances which took place at Cleveland, Ohio, on May Day, when 7000 of the unemployed assembled in the…

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Police Court Proceedings

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

The hearing of the case against the men Cummings and Lee, charged on suspicion in connection with the murder of Mr. M'Kay, was continued in the Barraba Police Court…

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The Bridge-street Burglary Case. The Conviction Upheld. Sydney

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

THE appeal in the case of Montgomery and Williams, who were tried and sentenced to death before Judge Stephen in connection with the Bridge-street affray, came on…

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