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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1895

1,123 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 57

Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 July 1895 · page 6

Mr. H. Crothers, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. ALLEGED LABOENT. Charles Smith was charged, on remand,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, July 18. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Desertion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 July 1895 · page 7

WILLIAM BROUGIITON, A.B., and William King, apprentice, of the ship Banffshire, charged with desertion, were ordered to be detained in…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 July 1895 · page 7

The license of the Clyde Hotel, Carrington, was transferred from M. Lorrain to Elizabeth Brook…

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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, July 18. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 July 1895 · page 6

THOMAS COATES was charged with using obscene language on the 13th instant, and was fined 1s and 7s 4d costs. ELECTIONEEBRING FRACAS…

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An East London Incident. Brutal Assault on a Lady

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—While the poll was being declared at Mile End to-day, Lady Mountmorris was felled to the ground and temporarily rendered…

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Greta Police Court. Friday, July 19. (Before Dr. A. E. O. Walker, J.p.) Alleged Larceny

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 3

CHARLES SMITH, describing himself as a sailor, was charged with stealing one pair of trousers, valued at 12s 6d, the property of C. J. Strickland…

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Newcastle Police Court Friday, July 19. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Ludlow and Thorn, Js.P) Trouble on the High Seas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 3

HARRY VAN BERG, A.B on the articles of the schooner Anthons, was charged with infloting grievous bodily harm on Captain Hyde, the master of the vessel, on 10th inst…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 July 1895 · page 8

Mr. H. Crothers, J. P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court on Saturday. James Peter Curran and Charles Cissman were fined 20s, in default seven days'…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, July 20. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Absent Without Leave

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 July 1895 · page 6

WILLIAM IRVING, an A.B., was sentenced to tour weeks' imprisonment, for being absent without leave from the ship Neobe…

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Maitland District. Police Court

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

MESSRS. H. CROTHERS, A. Wilkinson, and J. Rourke, Js.P, occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. DRUNKENNESS…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, July 22. (Before Mr. Mair, P.m.) a Double Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1895 · page 7

A youthful looking son of Neptune named J. Daly appeared with a very woe-begone face and pleaded guilty to the offence of using indecent…

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The Murder of M. Stamboloff Prince Ferdinand's Behaviour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1895 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—The gay and unbecoming behaviour of Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, while M. Stamboloff was dying, has given rise…

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Police Court

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

Mr. H. Crothers, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Edward Nolan was charged with having no visible lawful means of support. The accused…

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New Zealand. Auckland, Tuesday. Wilful Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 July 1895 · page 4

The man Stewart who was shot while acting as bailiff at Balfour has died since, and Keown, the man who shot him, will be charged with wilful murder…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, July 23. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Messrs. Ludlow, Thorn, and Christie, Js.P.) Drunkenness

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

A SORROWFUL-LOOKING man named Nathaniel Lewis, and a dissipated-looking woman named Maria Dawson, pleaded guilty to drunkenness, and…

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Police Court

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

At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday forenoon Michael Hayes was brought up before Mr. J. Enright, J.P., on a charge of drunkenness. In view of the circumstances…

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Murder by Boys at Calais

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 July 1895 · page 3

THE police at Calais arrested two youths of 16 and 17 years of age respectively for the murder of an old woman of 78, who lived alone over a…

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Police Court

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

A strong indication of the change brought about in the mode of conducting elections by the new Act was brought forward at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morn…

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Newcastle Police Court Thursday, July 25. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 July 1895 · page 3

J. MURPHY, miner, of Stockton, got very noisy after the election on Wednesday, and while under the influence of liquor engaged in a fight with…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 July 1895 · page 6

Patrick Morgan was granted a district auctioneer's license, on the application of Mr. W. Reid. BREACH OF THE LICENSING ACT…

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