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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1895

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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, June 20. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Teralba Drunks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 June 1895 · page 2

SENIOR-CONSTABLE DUNSHEA appeared with a host of charges of drunkenness from Teralba. The first to appear was John…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1895 · page 6

MR. H. CROTHERS, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Mai[?]land Police Court yesterday. Charles Smith was brought up for drunkenness and discharged. This was the only case…

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New Zealand. Auckland, Friday. Sentenced to Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1895 · page 5

Minnie Deans, the baby farmer, has been sentenced to death for murder. She left the Court quite unconcerned…

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Maitland District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1895 · page 6

The sitting of the Maitland District Court was resumed at the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday forenoon to hear the decision of Judge Backhouse in the action brought by…

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Newcastle Police Court Friday, June 21. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M, and Messrs. Ludlow and Thorn, Js.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1895 · page 3

RICHARD GEORGE, seaman, drunk in Hunter-street on Thursday night; Constable Ramsay; 5s or 24 hours. James Reay, drunk in Hunter-street on…

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Newcastle Police Court Saturday, June 22. (Before Mr. Mair, P.m.) a Black Grievance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 June 1895 · page 7

JACKY HUGHES, an indisputable son of the soil, was charged with assaulting Maggie Bullock, a coloured Australian lady with whom he had been…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1895 · page 8

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

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, June 24. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Drunk and Disorderly

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1895 · page 7

EDWARD MORGAN pleaded guilty to having been drunk and disorderly in Nelson-street on the 21st inst., and was fined 5s…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 24. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Burke and O'Mara, Js.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1895 · page 7

PATRICK M'DERMOTT, seaman, Scott-street, Saturday afternoon, Constable Scott; 5s, or 24 hours. Ellen Lewis, married, Hunter-street,…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. Land Appeal Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1895 · page 5

THE Land Appeal Court met to-day at Darlinghurst Messrs. Oliver (chairman), Freeman, and Brandis presided. Among the cases dealt with was one re Waratah Coal…

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The Diamond Robbery. The Accused Before the Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1895 · page 5

THE youths Percy and Alfred Gill, arrested in connection with the jewellery robbery at Messrs. Stewart, Dawson, and Company's, were brought up at the Central Police Court…

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The Foundering of the Steamer Bowra. Law Court Proceedings. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1895 · page 5

AN action was commenced in No. 3 Jury Court to-day, before Sir William Windeyer and a jury of four by Thomas Augustus Reynolds, Edward Thomas Miles, and…

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West Australia. Coolgardie, Tuesday. Supposed Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 June 1895 · page 5

Mr. Douglas, of the Cyclist Express, has returned from the recent discoveries at Mount Margaret. Douglas reports that some men working six miles from Kilkenny lease found…

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Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, June 25. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Cattle Straying

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 June 1895 · page 6

DAVID DAVIES was fined 6s and 2s 6d costs, for allowing six head of cattle to stray in Park-lane, New Lambton, on the 15th instant…

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Tragedy in India. Murder by a Maharajah

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 June 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—News to hand states that the Maharajah of Patna, an important city in British India, on the south bank of the Ganges, has…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, June 25. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Ludlow and Christie, Js.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 June 1895 · page 6

THOMAS ROGERS, labourer, drunk in Newcomen-street on Monday night; 5s, or 24 hours. Language…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 June 1895 · page 8

AT the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Mr. H. Crothers, J.P, William J. Jarvis was brought up for drunkenness and having used obscene language. He was…

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Charge of Attempted Embracery in Victoria. Prisoner Sentenced. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 June 1895 · page 5

IN the Criminal Court to-day Mr. Justice Williams ssontenced the man Charles Fowler, who attempted to bribe Dennis Ryan, one of the jurors in the Abrahams case, to six…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, June 26. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Hannell, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 June 1895 · page 7

SENIOR-SERGEANT DICK prosecuted for the police. Drunkenness. Margaret M'Donald, drunk in…

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Greta Police Court. Wednesday, June 26. (Before Mr. J. N. Brooks, P.M., and Dr. A. E. O. Walker, J.p.) Alleged Trespass

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 June 1895 · page 3

JOHN MAYNE V. W. Shephard.—This was a case in which the defendant was charged with that he did on or about the 12th instant unlawfully enter the…

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