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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1894

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Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, February 13. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Illegally Removing Furniture

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1894 · page 7

GEORGE BELL was charged with unlawfully and fraudulently removing furniture valued at £10 from the house of Isaac Hutchinson on the 8th…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, February 13. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Christie, J.P.) Absent Without Leave

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1894 · page 6

ARTHUR ROBERTS, 33, and James Pettitt, 32, pleaded guilty to a charge of having been absent without leave from the ship Ivanhoe. As the vessel…

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The Co-operative Colliery. Police Draw their Batons. Two Men Arrested

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1894 · page 5

Yesterday afternoon, about 3 o'clock, a large number of men, women, and children assembled in the vicinity of Macquarie and Kenrick streets to wait the arrival of the…

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District Labour Troubles the Question of Police Protection Reinforcement to be Sent from Sydney. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1894 · page 5

THE Premier has received several reports from the police through the Inspector-General, concerning disturbances at the Stockton and Co-operative Collieries. The reports are…

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Under Police Protection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 February 1894 · page 4

THE position of affairs at the Co-operative Colliery, Plattsburg, taken in connection with that at the Stockton Colliery, has again attracted the…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, February 14. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunk and Disorderly

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 February 1894 · page 6

HENRY MILLER, seaman, was fined 10s, with an option of 48 hours' lockup, for having been drunk and disorderly…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, February 14. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Alleged Threatening Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 February 1894 · page 7

JOHN RADFORD was charged with using threatening language to Phœbe King on the Charlestown-road, on the 5th instant…

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Wallsend Police Court. Wednesday, February 14. (Before Dr. J. B. Nash and Mr. H. Rushton, Js.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 February 1894 · page 6

HUGH BANFIELD and Gomer Davies were charged with riotous behaviour in Macquarie-street on Tuesday. They pleaded not guilty…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Wednesday, February 14. Metallurgical Works. Police Travelling Expenses. The Bank Notes Bill. The Estimates. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 February 1894 · page 5

THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. SLATTERY, in reply to Mr. TORPY, said that no progress had been made in the…

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A Burglary Suppression Bill. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 February 1894 · page 5

THE following is the preamble of a bill introduced into the Assembly by Mr. E. M. Clarke, one of the members for St. Leonards, which has for its object the suppression of…

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The Disturbance at Plattsburg. Accused Before the Police Court. Cases Adjourned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 February 1894 · page 7

AT the Wallsend Police Court yesterday, before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.M., and Mr. H. Rushton, J.P., Hugh Benfield was charged with riotous…

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Newcastle Police Court Thursday, February 15. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Disobedience

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 February 1894 · page 6

CHARLES BELL, seaman, was charged with having disobeyed lawful commands on the British registered ship Talus on the high seas on the 9th…

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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, February 15. (Before Mr. W. E. Honry, P.M., and H. Rushton, J.p.) Summons Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 February 1894 · page 7

THE following cases were set down for hearing in connection with an alleged assault committed on Robert Price, one of the tributers, recently…

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Extra Police Protection at Local Collieries. Questions to Be Asked. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 February 1894 · page 5

MR. FEGAN has given notice of the following questions for Tuesday in the Assembly:—To ask the Secretary for Mines: "Will he have any objection to laying on the table of…

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Lambton Police Court. Friday, February 16. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Alleged Criminal Assault.—the Accused Discharged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1894 · page 6

JOHN SIMS was charged on remand with criminally assaulting Christina E. Green, a married woman, with intent, at New Lambton, on the 6th inst…

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A Midnight Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1894 · page 12

THE history of a mysterious crime, perpetrated near Samara, on the Volga, is published by the Moscow correspondent of the Standard. Three…

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The Bridge-street Burglary. Another Remand. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1894 · page 5

CHARLES MONTGOMERY, or Millidge, and Thomas Williams, or Carroll, arrested in connection with the Bridge-street burglary, again appeared at the Water Police Court…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Friday. the Dora Dora Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1894 · page 5

Jackey, the Dora Dora black, appeared before the Police Court to-day, charged with murder. After the evidence of the arresting constables had been taken he was remanded…

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Newcastle Police Court Friday, February 16. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Burke, J.P.) Alleged Fraudulent. Removal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1894 · page 3

WILLIAM CANN sued Patrick Carroll on an information wherein he was charged that being a weekly tenant of a house owned by complainant, and being £19 in arrears with rent,…

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District Labour Troubles. the Recent Disturbance at Plattsburg. Additional Summonses Issued by the Police. The Co-operative Colliery to Resume Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1894 · page 5

FROM our Plattsburg correspondent we learn that the police have issued 10 additional summonses for riotous conduct, so that it would seem that they have determined to…

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