The Police and Sunday Selling
Sir,—The extraordinary and positively vindictive activity shown by the police lately in [?]ndeavouring more or less successfully to obtain convictions against hotelkeepers for…
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Courts & crime, 1899
956 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 48
Wallsend Police Court. Monday, October 16. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M.) Alleged Stealing
Thomas Pringle, on remand, was charged with stealing one ticket, value 5s, and about £1 10s in money, from the person of John Garaty, at the Wallsend racecourse on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court Monday, October 16. (Before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M.) Indecent Behaviour
John Kennedy, for having behaved indecently in Burwood-street on Sunday afternoon, was fined 10s, with the alternative of 48 hours' gaol…
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Sir,—Your correspondent "Statute Law" seems to be sadly put out because the police in Newcastle and I trust throughout this district as well, are now trying to do what they…
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LONDON, Monday.—Six of the Natal Mounted Police, who fell into an ambush in De Jaager's Drift, have been captured by the Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, October 17. (Before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M.) Warrant to Issue
Senior-constable Geo summoned James Lawrence Donnelly for having disobeyed an order of the Court for the maintenance of his child…
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The foot police in the police district of Newcastle are about to be supplied with Martini-Henry carbines, the arms having just arrived for distribution. It is over…
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Sir,—In your issue of to-day, someone—or to use his own designation of his own act—"some contemptible anonymous writer who has a grudge" against the police for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, October 18. (Before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M.) Withdrawn
William Dow, a seaman, 64 years of age was charged with having without leave, absented himself from the British registered ship Oimara…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Annual Revision Court
At the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M., conducted the annual revision of the electoral rolls of the two divisions of the Kahibah electorate. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratah Police Court Tuesday, October 17. (Before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M.) Domestic Troubles
Elizabeth Lowther charged her husband Joseph, with threatening her life at Waratah and asked that he be bound over to keep the peace. After hearing evidence, defendant was…
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At the Minmi Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M., Ethel Keen charged William Bainbridge, sen., for using threatening language. The S.M. considered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court Thursday, October 19. (Before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M.) Breach of Harbour Regulations
Breach of Harbour Regulations. Senior Water Police Sergeant M'Vane summoned Captain Tadsen, master of the German ship Eilbek, for having on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. C. N. Payton, L. S. Donaldson, and G. C. Martin, L.Ms.) Renewal Granted
In the case, Senior-constable Robinson against Edward Blackburn, for failing to keep his licensed premises, known as the Merewether Hotel, up to the standard of the…
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On remand from the 13th inst. John M'Quinney, alias James Smith, alias Chas. Green, and Joseph Gardiner were charged with having at Wallsend, on the 12th inst.,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lambton Police Court Friday, October 26th. (Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M.)
Henry Downing applied for a 'bus license to ply between Adamstown and Duley.— Grinted. John Butterly pleaded guilty to charges of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court Friday, October 20. (Before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M.) Drunkenness
Peter Davis was fined 5s, with the option of 24 hours' gaol, drunkenness in Hunter-street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court-Martial at Pretoria. a Baron Shot As a Spy
LONDON, Friday.—An eccentric person named Baron Guinsberg has been Courtmartialled at Pretoria, and shot as a spy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Imperial Policy. Debate in the Commons. Chamberlain Charged with Forcing a War. a Brilliant Defence. Approved by the House
LONDON, Thursday.—During the debate on the Address-in-Reply to the Queen's Speech in the House of Commons last night, the Hon. Philip Stanhope, member for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police and Publicans
Sir,—I am to-day in receipt of your issue of 17th instant, and I notice in it a letter by "Old Constable." In the first place it does not speak volumes for a man who…
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