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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1898

1,032 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 52

Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, April 6. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1898 · page 7

LUKE BYRNES and Lefen Hyppolite, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours, Disobedience…

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Newcastle Police Court Thursday, April 7. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1898 · page 7

HENRY BURNDEN , Geo. Lassetter, and William Curran were each fined for being drunk. Jas. Fraser, for being drunk, was fined £1, or seven days,…

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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, April 7. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.m.) Bad Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1898 · page 6

DENNIS SCANLON pleaded guilty to making use of indecent language at Teralba on the 26th March. Constable Fallon explained the circumstances…

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Minmi Police Court. Wednesday, April 6. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.m.) School Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1898 · page 3

Senior-constable Bowen proceeded against Thomas Bowie and Charles Thomas for neglecting to send their children to school the required…

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Small Debts Court. Breach of Contract

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1898 · page 6

James Wilson sued Thos. Rowley for not delivering over a house situated at Teralba in accordance with agreement…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1898 · page 6

Joseph Franks was further examined, Mr. Bray appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr. Mackenzie, on behalf of Mr. Hugh Young, one of the…

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Systematic Murder for Insurance Money

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1898 · page 12

CHARLES ZANOLI, charged in New York with [?] murderedseven pe sons for the insurance upon their lines, will not (says the New York correspondent of a Victorian…

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A Savage Assault. Two Children Beaten

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1898 · page 5

INFORMATION reached Senior-constable Gos on Saturday that a man named Walters, residing at Wickham, had early that morning savagely attached his two children, a girl…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, April 9. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.m.) a Quartette

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1898 · page 2

KENNETH SMITH end John Wilson, charged with drunkenness, were each fined Se, in default 24 hours. Maggie Bullock, an old offender, for being…

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M. Zola. to Be Prosecuted by Court-martial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1898 · page 4

LONDON, Saturday.—Owing to the Court of Cassation having upheld M. Zola's appeal, a court-martial has decided to prosecute M. Zola…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, April 11. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M.) Drunkenness and Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1898 · page 6

WILLIAM SIMPSON for drunkenness was fined 5s; and John Quinn for using indecent language in Parry-street, was fined 20s, in default seven…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 April 1898 · page 8

Mr. George Maher, J P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morning. Boland Smith was charged that he did…

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A Hunter-street Row. Three Young Men Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 April 1898 · page 7

AT the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, Thomas Walters, Maurice Powers, and Arthur Catton, on remand, were charged in company…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, April 12. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M) Drunkenness and Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 April 1898 · page 7

WILLIAM JONES, James Dawson Robinson, John M'Ewen, and Clement Law were each fined for drunkenness. Charles Fisher, for using indecent…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, April 13. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.M.) Drunkenness, &c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 April 1898 · page 6

PETER SAMBOURG, a seaman, pleaded guilty to being drunk in Hunter-street West, and was fined 5s, or 24 hours. For using indecent language…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 April 1898 · page 8

Messrs. G. F. Scott, P.M., H. Crothers, and C. W. Holmes, occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morning…

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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, April 14. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.m.) Drunk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 April 1898 · page 3

JAMES IRVING pleaded guilty to being drunk in Nelson-street, Plattsburg, on the 9th instant, and was fined 5s, or 24 hours…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, April 14. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.m.) a Solitary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 April 1898 · page 3

MICHAEL SULLIVAN, a seaman, charged with being drunk at Carrington, was fined 5s, in default the rising. The Hunter-street Row…

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Bankruptcy Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 8

A single meeting of creditors in the estate of William Ebenezer Couper was held yesterday before Mr. W. Marsh, registrar, at the East Maitland Police Court, Mr. H. L…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, April 15. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.m.) a Trio

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 7

WILLIAM CURRAN, John Allen, and Christina Peterson, otherwise Allen, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 10s, in default 48 hours…

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