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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1899

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, August 23. (Before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M.) Disobedience

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 August 1899 · page 3

Herman Hino was charged, by warrant, with having, on the 21st instant, disobeyed the lawful commands of the master of the foreign-registered Norwegian barque…

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The Dreyfus Court-Martial. M. Labori in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 August 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—M. Labori was sufficiently recovered to he able to appear at the Court-martial to-day, and resume his position as lending counsel for Captain…

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The French Soudan. Murder of Two Officers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 August 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Later particulars concerning the murder of Colonel Klebb and Lieutenant Meunier, in the French Soudan, state that Colonel Klobb was…

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Police Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 5

Sub-inspector Fowler received a telephone communication from the stationmaster at Hexham, informing him that a man, name unknown, had been washed out of his buggy…

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The Murder of French Officers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—Further particulars concerning the murder of Colonel Kiobb and Lieutenant Meunier, in the French Soudan, state that Captain Voulet…

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Newcastle Police Court Thursday, August 24. (Before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M.) Riotous Behaviour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 6

Charles Walkley and Alfred Daley, who had a fight in Hunter-street on the evening of the 23rd instant, were each fined 5s, with the option of 24 hours' gaol…

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Newcastle Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 6

At the Newcastle Small Debts Court yesterday, before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M., William George Young sought to recover from Mr. Lancer £2 10s, for damages to a…

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The Dreyfus Court-Martial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—A letter from a French spy named Cuers, was read at the sittings of the Court-martial to-day. It showed that Captain Dreyfus was unknown…

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Wallsend Police Court Thursday, August 24. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten S.M.) Breach of Colliery Rules

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 7

Edward Saunders, Matthew Roddy, Edward Rundle, and Frederick Rosey wore charged with that on the 17th August, being shiftmen employed in the mine of the…

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The Pacific Trouble. Court of Inquiry. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 5

Mr. Alexander Oliver, President of the Land Appeal Court, opened a public inquiry into the cause of dispute between the directors and miners of the Pacific Co-operative…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, August 24. (Before Mr. Donaldson, L.M. Music Permit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 6

For a complimentary social to Mr. A. Tighe, at the Criterion Hotel, on the night or the 25th instant, J. A. Pulbrook was granted a music permit…

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The Glebe Pit Second Inquiry. Investigation of Charges Against the Management. Completion of the Evidence. Mr. Thompson's Address to the Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 7

The Inquiry-ordered by the Minister for Mines—arising out of Mr. Commissioner Wade's report on the charges laid by Mr. John William Bailey against the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, August 25. (Before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M.) Stealing in Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 2

Frederick M'Laurin and William Spence were charged with having, on the 23rd inst., in company, stolen a macintosh coat, valued at £1 7s 4d, the property of the New South…

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Lambton Police Court. Friday, August 25. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 5

Thomas Molyncaus was fined 6s, with 4s 10d. court costs, for drunkenness on the 13th inst. For having been drunk at Charlestown, Joseph Cockburn was fined 10s. with 4s 10d costs…

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Presentations to Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 10

Rumours about an unpleasantness in connection with one of the earlier Drawing-rooms are beginning to take shape, and it is boldly declared that at least one of the…

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The Court of Darius

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 6

An idea of the splendours of the court of Darius is given by Professor Benjamin Wheeler, who is writing a history of Alexander the Great by instalments in the…

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The Dreyfus Court-Martial. the General Staff in a Panic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—M. Labori's clever cross-examination of the witnesses before the court-martial to-day further discredited the prosecution. General Mercier admitted…

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Filipino Filibustering. American Consuls Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 August 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Four of the United States Consuls in China have been suspended and ordered to return to Washington on charges of being implicated in fillbustering…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, August 26. (Before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M.) Drunkenness and Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 August 1899 · page 3

Benjamin Cooper was fined 5s, with the option of a day's imprisonment, for drunkenness, and £1, with the alternative of a fortnight's work in Maitland Gaol, for…

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The Dreyfus Court-Martial. Madame Labori Threatened

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 August 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Mme. Labori has received a letter, threatening the assassination of herself and her husband and children…

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