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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1896

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, March 10. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Ludlow, J.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 March 1896 · page 3

AUGUST ERVIDSON, 28 years of age, a seaman, was the only, prisoner, and as his offence was committed late in the evening a fine of 5s, or 24 hours, was…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 March 1896 · page 8

AT the West Maitland Police Court yesterday four boys, named George Mulcahy. Patrick Mulcahy, Charles Castles, and Joseph Lynch were charged before Messrs. H. Crothers and…

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Minmi Police Court. Wednesday, 11Th March. (Before Mr. W. E. Henry, P.m.) Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 March 1896 · page 8

THOMAS HOWE, for uttering profane language, was fined 5s and 5s 6d costs, or 7 days. George Ford, for obscene language, was fined £1 and 5s 6d costs, or 21…

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Greta Police Court. Wednesday, March 11. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, P.m.) Alleged Larceny

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 March 1896 · page 3

A YOUNG man named Patrick Kyle was charged with stealing grapes, the property of John Chick, to the value of 6d…

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Summons Court. Municipal Prosecutions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 March 1896 · page 6

John Kelly, Frank Wilson, and Arthur Moxey were each fined 5s, with 2s 6d costs, for allowing horses under their charge to stray in Parry, Telford,…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, March 11. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. Holland, J.P.) Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 March 1896 · page 6

FOR using obscene language in Hunter-street West on Tuesday night, a seaman named Joseph Lane was fined £2, in default, 14 days'…

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District Court. Wednesday, March 11. (Before Judge Backhouse.) Undefended Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 March 1896 · page 7

BANK OF N.S.W. v. CARROLL.—In this case the plaintiff sued for the recovery of £13 6s 7d due on a promissory note, and a verdict was given…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 March 1896 · page 8

At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., and Messrs. H. Crothers and J. Rourke, Js.P., the case of George Patfield, which had been…

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Trebly Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 March 1896 · page 8

At about 5 o'clock a man named Charles King was given in charge by Mr. Buman on a charge of damaging a window of the shop of Messrs. Laskie and Buman, High-street,…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 March 1896 · page 7

William Fortune, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, Carrington, and Thomas Williams, licensee of the Premier Hotel, Broadmeadow, were…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, March 12. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M., and Mr. W. H. Shaw, J.P.) Summons Division

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 March 1896 · page 7

EDWARD HUGHES, the licensee of the Caledonia Hotel in Watt-street, was proceeded against by Sub-inspector Saunders for a breach of the Licensing…

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Bankruptcy Court. Thursday, March 12. (Before Mr. Mair, District Registrar.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 March 1896 · page 6

CHRISTIAN VANSLERE, of 52 Bolton-street, labourer, under examination, stated that he had filed a statement of his affairs and sent a copy of it to…

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Bankruptcy Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 8

Mr. G. F. Scott, district registrar, conducted the proceedings in the Bankruptcy Court at the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday forenoon…

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Maitland District. Police Courts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 8

MR. G. F. SCOTT, P.M., occupied the Bench at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. An elderly woman named Mary Ann Latimer was brought up as a person of…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, March 14. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 March 1896 · page 6

LUKE MALLEY, Andrew Larsen, and Tames Brown, for drunkenness, were fined 5s, or 24 hours. James Murphy, an old offender,…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1896 · page 8

MESSRS. G. F. SCOTT, P.M. and H. Crothers, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. A booth license in connection with the Cessnock races,…

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Newcastle Police Court Monday, March 16. (Before Mr. Mair, P.M.) Travelling Without a Ticket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1896 · page 6

EDWARD PHILLPS, who described himself as a jockey, was fined £1, in default, seven days' imprisonment, for travelling from East Maitland to…

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Wallsend Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 March 1896 · page 5

MR. W. E. HENRY, P.M., occupied the Beach at the Wallsend Police Court yesterday. John Callagher, a seaman, was charged…

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Lambton Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 March 1896 · page 5

MR. W. E. HENRY, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Lambton Police Court yesterday. George Burt was fined 1s, with 2s 6d costs,…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 March 1896 · page 8

AT the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. H. Crothers and J W. Birkenhead, Js.P., Martin Daley was fined 10s, with an alternative of 48 hours'…

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