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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1900

957 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 38 of 48

Loot of the Summer Palace. the Boxers and the Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Dr. Morrison, the "Times" correspondent in Pekin, states that. the Russians after packing their loot handed the keys of the…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. Donaldson, S.M., Mr. Love, S.M., and Mr. Martin, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1900 · page 7

Thomas Watson applied for a license for premises situate in Nelson-street, to be known as the Central Hotel. Mr. Windeyer, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the…

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Greta. Police Changes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 5

Constable Scott has again taken up his duties in Greta after an absence of over two months at Branxton, where he has been filling the position of Senior-constable…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, October 9. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness, &c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 6

Three first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. Florence Reid, Minnie Reid, and Mary Smith were charged with…

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Police Scattered by Girl Strikers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 2

Eight hundred girls in New York city, each armed with a halt-pin, descended in a battalion upon half-a-dozen policemen on East Fourth-street in a…

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The Late Court Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 6

Sir,—In your issue of Friday last I observe that your correspondent, in dealing with the mongrels that infest the streets of Carrington, asserts that…

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China and the Powers. the Chinese Court. Suggested Rescue of the Emperor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The Dowager Empress of China has failed to establish even the semblance of government at Taiynen-fu, the capital of…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, October 10. (Before Mr. M. S.. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness, &c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 October 1900 · page 3

James Carlin was fined 5s for drunkenness, and three first offenders were also dealt with. Thomas Rodgers and Wm. Lawrence,…

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Wallsend. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 October 1900 · page 7

Yesterday, before Mr. Donaldson, S.M., A. Cadman was charged with assaulting Jimmy Ah Him in a railway train near Cardill on the 6th inst…

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Maitland District Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 October 1900 · page 8

At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. G. F. Scott, P.M., H. Crothers rand J. T. Tegg, Js.P., William Masters charged James Ralston, of South…

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Murder of Missionaries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 October 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Kay, his wife and daughter, and Miss Way, of the Inland Mission, were murdered in Shinsi on August 30th…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, October 11. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness, &c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 October 1900 · page 6

Three first offenders were dealt with Percy Dalton, a clerk , for being drunk and disorderly in Scott-street, was fined 2s 6d, and for using indecent…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. Love, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 October 1900 · page 6

Eric Ecklund v. Hooley, claiming 18s for goods. Mr. Reid appeared for the defendant. The summons was withdrawn…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, October 11. (Before Messrs. L. S. Donaldson, M. S. Love, and G. C. Martin, L.Ms.) Transfer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 October 1900 · page 3

The license of the General Washington Hotel, Stockton, was transferred from Mrs. Rae to Jas. Fraser. Conditional Licenses…

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Lambton. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 October 1900 · page 6

Yesterday, before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M., James Henwood, manager of Dudley Colliery prOceeded against J. Philips, J. Serant, and Mittendolph,…

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"Killing No Murder."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 October 1900 · page 11

In the September chapter of the "Life of Oliver Cromwell," which he is writing far the "Century." John Morley reaches the [?] when the Protector became a military…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, October 12. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, Acting S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 October 1900 · page 6

Edward Sinnott, aged 65, a blacksmith, who was found drunk in Hunter-street by Constable G. Stapleton, was fined 20s, in default seven days…

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Ousting the Divorce Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 October 1900 · page 12

A new departure under the Married Women's Desertion Act was taken by Mr. Fordham at North London Police Court lately. A woman, who charged her…

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The Breelong Blacks. Encounter with the Police Constable Harris Wounded. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 October 1900 · page 5

News was received in town to-day that the police had encountered the Governors, and during the affair Constable Harris was shot in the thigh, having first…

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Assault in Company. Three Cabdrivers Sent to Gaol. Remarks by the Bench

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1900 · page 3

George Pankhurst, aged 21, Hugh M'Lean, aged 20, and William Callaghan, aged 18, cab-drivers, were presented on charges, at the Newcastle…

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