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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1897

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, June 30. (Before Mr. J. Mair, S.M.) Trespassing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 July 1897 · page 7

JOSEPH GAMBLE , John Firth, and William Wilkinson were charged with unlawfully trespassing on the railway line at Broadmeadow, Inspector A. M'Lean appeared for…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 8

Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., and Messrs. H. Crothers and A. Wilkinson, Js.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday…

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Newcastle Police Court Thursday, July 1. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.M.) An Alleged Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 6

JOHN BROWN and George Evans alias Irvine were charged with stealing in company one seaman's bag, containing a quantity of clothing and two tents,…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. Alleged Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 5

PATRICK HICKEY was charged on remand at the Glebe Police Court to-day with having, at Ashfield, on 26th ult, maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm on James Walsh…

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Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. J. Mair, S.M., and C. N. Payten, S.M.) Renewals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 6

MR. FENWICK, as sole executor of the will of the late Jane Renfrew, made an application for the renewal of the license of the Changing Station Hotel,…

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A Modern Babel. The Languages at a London Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 July 1897 · page 9

LONDON contains more languages than Babel ever know, but this diversity of speech, instead of causing a dispersal of the nations according to the Biblical theory, rather…

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Lambton Police Court. Friday, July 1. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 July 1897 · page 2

JOSEPH BASHFORD and Joseph Willmot, who were charged with being drunk and disorderly at Dudley on June 19th, pleaded guilty, and were each fined 5s and 2s 5d costs of court…

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Newcastle Police Court Friday, July 2. (Before Mr. J. Mair, S.M.) Behaviour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 July 1897 · page 6

JOHN ALLAN, aged 67, a labourer, who was arrested by Constable Wells, pleaded guilty to behaving in an indecent manner in Hunter-street on Thursday evening, and was fined…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Police Quarters at Plattsburg

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 July 1897 · page 5

MR. WATKINS, M.P., has received a letter from the Public Works Department stating that, in reply to representations made by him, the district inspector at Newcastle has…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 July 1897 · page 8

MR. G F. SCOTT, P.M., and Mr. A. Wilkinson, J.P, occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Robert Cock, a youth, was fined 20s, with the…

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The Merewether "Burglary." Recovery of the Cash-box

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 July 1897 · page 5

IN connection with the reported robbery of a cash-box from the dwelling-house of Mr. August Monthey at Merewether, Detective M'Hattie and Senior-constable Robinson…

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Newcastle Police Court Monday, July 5. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 July 1897 · page 6

MARTHA GUSTAVSEN and Arthur Wrightson, for drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default the rising. No Means of Support…

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Minmi Police Court. Tuesday, July 6. (Before Mr. Mair, S.m.) an Assault Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 8

AT the Police Court to-day Wallace Ford, a young man 18 years of age, was charged with unlawfully assaulting a young man named George Anderson, at Johnstone's hall,…

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Assault at West Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 2

A COWARDLY assault is alleged to have been made upon a young man named George Henderson, of Minmi, at West Wallsend late…

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Waratah Police Court. Tuesday, July 6. (Before Mr. J. Mair, S.m.) Railway Trespassers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 3

GEORGE JARVIS and William Bytheway, two youths, pleaded guilty to trespassing on the G. N. Railway, between the Wallsend junction and…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, July 6. (Before Mr C. N. Payten, S.m.) a Stranger in a Strange Land

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 7

ADOLPHUS HOWARD, an American, was charged with being drunk in Scott-street, Adolphus reckoned that he didn't known whether he was drunk or…

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Racecourse Betting. the English Appeal Court Decision. Declared to Be Not Illegal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—The case of Powell versus the Kempton Park Club, testing the legality of betting on racecourses, came before the Court…

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Betting on Racecourses. Decision of the English Appeal Court. Declared to be Legal. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 5

THE cable from London to the effect that the English Appeal Court has decided that betting on racecourses was legal has caused great excitement amongst the betting…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, July 7. (Before Mr. J. Mair, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1897 · page 6

JOHN JMAES KEATING and William Keys, for drunkenness, were each fined the usual sum. No Means of Support…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 July 1897 · page 8

Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M. and Mr. A. Wilkinson, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Thomas Bellamy was charged by summons…

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