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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1899

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, March 2. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 6

Mary Ann Beaumont (married), Thomas Dowden (seaman), and John Brady (fireman), were fined for drunkenness on the 1st inst…

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The Dreyfus Scandal. the Revision Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—It is reported from Paris that the billion introduced by M. Lebret providing that the Dreyfus revision case be transferred from the…

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Newcastle Small Debts Court. Thursday, March 2. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 7

Verdicts for plaintiff's were given as under:— Mrs. W. Forbes v. Andrew Mills claim £1 7s; 5s costs…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, March 2. (Before Messrs. J. Mair and G. C. Martin, L.Ms.) REFUSED

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 7

William L. Smith applied for the transfer of his license of the Britannia Hotel, Junction, to Charles Sidney Martin…

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Newcastle Police Court Saturday, March 4. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 March 1899 · page 6

Daniel Cain was fined for drunkenness in Perkin-street. LARCENY. Henry Alfred, seaman, was charged…

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Maitland District Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1899 · page 8

Messrs. G. F. Scott, P.M., and Henry Crothers, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. An inebriate was admonished and…

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Newcastle Police Court Monday, March 6. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1899 · page 6

Christopher Robert Peel (machinist) and Hans Olsen (seaman) were fined for having been drunk. RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR…

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Licensing Court. Transfer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1899 · page 3

The transfer of the license of the Clyde Hotel, West Wallsend, from Thos Robertson to Michael Daihunty was granted. MUSIC PERMITS…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, March 6. (Before Mr. C. N. Peyton, S.m.) Drunk and Disorderly

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1899 · page 3

P. Scarney pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly at the Great Northern Hotel, Teralba, on the 25th February, and was fined 10s and 4s 10d costs.—Paid…

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Attempted Murder. Husband Shoots His Wife. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1899 · page 5

Residents of Duke-street, Balmain, early in the afternoon, were alarmed by, the sound of revolver shots, and the intelligence soon spread that a man, whoso name is…

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The Dreyfus Scandal. the Court of Cassation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The minutes in the Dreyfus case and of the proceedings in the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation have been fully…

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Alleged Stealing at Teralba

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1899 · page 6

Thomas Irwin a middle-aged man, was presented on a charge of stealing certain moneys, amounting to £3 17s 6d, the property of John Gower Fraser, at Teralba, on…

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Alleged Assault. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1899 · page 4

Henry Arthur Slater, who is on the police pension, list, and was until recently a messenger in the Department of Public Works, was placed upon…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, March 7. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1899 · page 7

James Seymour and Matthew Byrnes (seamen) were fined for drunkenness. WITHOUT LEAVE. Robert M'Kenzie, charged with…

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The Teralba Stealing Case. a Verdict of Not Guilty

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1899 · page 5

At 12 o'clock last night the jury empenelled in the Teralba stealing case (in which Thomas Irwin was placed on trial for the alleged theft of £3…

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The Ex-president of the Court of Cassation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1899 · page 5

M. Jules de Beaurepaire is going to light a dual, which Is not a cause for any great alarm, as the contest will be in France and in the best French fashion. Somebody has…

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Maitland District a Supposed Case of Burglary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 March 1899 · page 8

A case of alleged burglary was reported to Sub-lnspector Fowler yesterday morning by Mr. Pierre Piten, of High-street. Piten is the proprietor of a fish and oyster saloon,…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, March 8. (Before Mr. Jas. Mair, S.m.) Riotous Behaviour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 March 1899 · page 2

John Morrison, seaman, was fined £1, in default seven days imprisonment, for having behaved riotously in Hunter-street…

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A Supreme Court Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 March 1899 · page 8

In the Supreme Court yesterday, in Chambers, before Mr. Justice Cohen, Mr. A. R. Watt, instructed by Messrs. Abbott, Vindin, and Littlejohn, agents for Mr. W…

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The Hamilton Road House-breaking Case. Each Prisoner Sentenced to Three Years' Imprisonment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 March 1899 · page 7

Horace Hope, who described himself as a salesmen, and Ellis Lewis ("a jockey"), found guilty on a charge of having, at Hamilton, on 29th December, broken and…

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