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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1897

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, October 27. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.M.) Remanded to Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 October 1897 · page 6

A FRENCHMAN named Adolphe Trappe was charged on remand with having uttered a counterfeit half-sovereign to Mary Barrott at Sydney, on September 8…

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Military Court-martial. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 October 1897 · page 5

DRIVER William John Gilmour, of "A" Battery, N.S.W. Artillery Regiment, was tried by District Court-martial at Victoria Barracks to-day, on a charge of pawning a…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 October 1897 · page 8

Messrs. H. Crothers and J. D. Prentice, Js P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. A young fellow named Thomas Maguire…

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Alleged Fatal Assault. Accused Remanded. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 October 1897 · page 5

AH SUN, aged 26, a gardener, appeared at the Redfern Police Court charged with causing the death of Charles Gray on October 26. No evidence was taken in the case, and…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, October 28. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 October 1897 · page 3

ALEC PUTTING, for indecent behaviour at Carrington, was fined £2, in default 14 days. Frederick Barbouneau and Francis Berbe, seaman, for deserting from the barque Circe,…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 October 1897 · page 8

Messrs. J. W. Birkenhead and C. E. Nicholson, Js.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Sarah Jane M'Cormack was charged with…

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Summons Cases. An Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 October 1897 · page 2

Daniel Regan was summoned for assaulting Constable Murphy at Merewether, to which he pleaded guilty, and was fined £2. Wife Desertion…

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Newcastle Police Court Friday, October 29. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M.) Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 October 1897 · page 2

HENRY BUSH, a seaman, was fined £3, in default a month's imprisonment, for using indecent language in Young-street, Carrington…

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Full Court Application. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 October 1897 · page 5

AN application was made to the Full Court this morning by Mr. Hanbury Davies, on behalf of the Incorporated Law Institute, with regard to David Fealy, an attorney. On…

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Swansea Police Court. Saturday, October 30. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.m.) Bad Language and Drink

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 November 1897 · page 3

JOHN BELL, charged by Constable Gibson with using obscene language at Catherine Hill Bay, pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s and 5s 6d costs, or…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1897 · page 8

Messrs. G. F. Scott, P.M., Henry Crothers and M. Murray occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Thomas M Grath, an ex inmate of the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, November 1. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.M.) Given Another Chance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1897 · page 7

JOHN THOMAS GRAY, 14 years of age, was charged with being found habittually wandering about the streets in no ostensible lawful occupation…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.M.) Breach of Contract

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1897 · page 7

E. Woods v. James Yates; claim for £2, breach of contract. Mr. Dart appeared for the defendant, who pleaded not indebted…

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Wallsend Licensing Court. Monday, November 1. (Before Messrs. Mair and Payten, S.Ms. Colonial Wine License

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1897 · page 6

OSWALD BAIRD applied for a 0olonial wine license for promises situate Mary street, Plattsburg. There being no objection the application was granted…

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Minmi Police Court. Alleged Indecent Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 November 1897 · page 8

AT the above Coart on Monday morning, before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M, a youth about 17 years of age, named William Paddock, a labourer, late of Moree, was charged…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 November 1897 · page 8

Mr. J. Cunningham, J.P., occupied the bench at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. Carl Krust, who had been remanded from…

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Criminals Sentenced. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 November 1897 · page 5

JUNIOR MURRAY this morning sentenced the following prisoners, who yesterday pleaded gutty at the opening of the Darlinghurst [?] :—R. H. Butler, stealing from a…

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A London Burglary. Great Haul of Jewellery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 November 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Monday,—The premises of the Diamond Merchants' Alliance, 68 Piccadilly, were entered by burglars last night, and jewellery to the value…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, November 2. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.m.) a Trio

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

FRANCIS Murphy, miner, Edward Harsell, master mariner, and Edward Bourke, labourer, for drunkenness, were each fined. Remanded…

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A Court-martial. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 November 1897 · page 5

DISTRICT Court-Martial was held at the Futoris Barracks to-day, comprising Major P.L. Murray (president), Captain Morris, [?] Lieutenant Cox Taylor, for the purpose…

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