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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1895

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Swansea Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1895 · page 5

ON Friday Mr. W. M. Macfarlane, P.M., and Messrs Thomas Parton and R. F. Talbot, Js P., presided. John Williams, on remand from…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1895 · page 8

MR J. N. BROOKS, P.M., and Mr. H. Crothers, J.P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. COMMITTED…

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Newcastle Police Court Monday, April 22. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1895 · page 6

THE effects of the flowing bowl obtained an introduction for Wm. Bruce, seaman, to Constable Harrington; 5s, or 24 hours…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1895 · page 8

MR. H. CROTHERS, J.P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Jimmy Quinn was brought up for…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, April 23. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Moore and Christie, Js.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1895 · page 6

THE is a tide in the affairs of drink, which, taken at the flood, leads to the lockup. Wm. Hill, miner, with the aid of Constable Dwan, found this to…

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Minmi Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1895 · page 5

THE Police Court proceedings in connection with the cases of riotous behaviour and tinkettling at Minmi, which wore to have been heard yesterday, were postponed for a week…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1895 · page 8

MESSRS. H. Crothers and J. P. Gideon, Js.P., occupied the b.nch at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. John Collingwood and Thomas Quinn were…

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Summons Division. Alleged Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1895 · page 6

Susan Tellison and Alice Woodbine one and severally accused one another of assault, cross summonses having been taken out. Mr. Windeyer…

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Greta Police Court. Wednesday, April 24. (Before Mr. J. N. Brooks, P.m.) Riotous Behaviour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1895 · page 6

J. RYLATT for the above offence in High-street on Good Friday was fined 5s, and 4s 10d costs; in default, 48 hours…

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The Cook's River Shooting Case. a Boy Charged. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1895 · page 5

THE recent extraordinary ease of shooting on Cook's River, in connection with which a boy of 17 named Alfred Stannard, stands charged with having maliciously shot James…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, April 24. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Ludlow and Thorn, Js.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1895 · page 6

HENRY BELL rang the changes on various liquors until he became so much out of tune that Professor Lewis, of Hunter-street East, tol(le)d…

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The Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 April 1895 · page 8

It was noticeable that the greater number of gentlemen who occupied seats yesterday at the large table in front of the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court were suffering…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 April 1895 · page 8

MR. J. N. BROOKS, P.M., and Messrs. H. Crothers and M. Murray, Js.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday…

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Newcastle Police Court Thursday, April 25. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) "Ship Lifting."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 April 1895 · page 7

FREDERICK SAUNDERS was charged with stealing three keys, a collar stud, and a drawer of a cabinet, valued at 12s 6d, from the ship Earl of Cadogan,…

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The Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1895 · page 5

THE departure for Sydney on Thursday last of the sergeant and 10 constables constituting the last contingent of the force sent here in consequence of the explosions at Minmi on…

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Maitland District. Police Courts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1895 · page 8

MR. H. CROTHERS, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. George Johnson, Thomas M'Mahon, and John Norton were brought up for…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Friday. the Murder of a Warder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1895 · page 5

At the inquest on the body of William Houston, the murdered warder at Parkside Lunatic Asylum, another warder gave evidence that when he took the spade from…

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Newcastle Police Court Friday, April 26. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Ludlow and Thorn, Js.P.) Right Again

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1895 · page 6

J. T. ARKINS, on remand from Maitland Gaol, where he had been sent for medical treatment, being deemed insane when brought before the Newcastle Police Court a week…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 April 1895 · page 8

Mr. H. Crothers, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court on Saturday last. Patrick J. Donnelly was the only victim, and he…

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Newcastle Police Court Saturday, April 27. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 April 1895 · page 7

HENRY LAWSON, fireman, "kept on doing it" until a sort of amateur congestion of the brain superseded sobriety, and Constable Hanney went…

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