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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1900

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Newcastle District Court. Friday, December 7. (Before His Honor Judge Murray.) Board and Lodging Claim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1900 · page 2

Ephraim Hargrave sued his son-in-law, James Lay, for the recovery of £22, alleged to be due to the plaintiff for 44 weeks' board and lodging given…

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Newcastle Small Debts Court. Friday, December 7. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, Acting-S.M.). Interpleader Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1900 · page 3

Thomas S. Petherbridge v. James Cofteros, Charles John Williams, claimant. Mr. J. Dart appeared for Williams (claimant), and Mr. H. V. Harris for…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, December 8. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, Deputy S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 December 1900 · page 7

Robert M'Neill was fined 5s, with the option of imprisonment till the rising of the Court, for having on Friday night been drunk in Wolfe-street…

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International News. the Chinese Court Removing. the Emperor to Come to Pekin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 December 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—Palace officials report that the Court will leave Sian-fu on the 12th inst., and will journey by short stages. The…

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Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 December 1900 · page 7

George Miles was charged with having at Muswellbrook on the 3rd October assaulted George Rhead Stanway Lovett, by presenting a loaded rifle at…

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West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 December 1900 · page 8

Messrs. W. B. Smith, P.M., and G. Maher. J.P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Two inebriates were each fined 5s,…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, December 10. (Before Mr. Love, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 December 1900 · page 8

George Wills pleaded guilty to the charge of being drunk in Nelson-street on the 6th inst, and was fined 5s.— Paid…

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Bankruptcy Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 December 1900 · page 8

Richard Hooper, late of Plattsburg, but at present residing at Stockton, deposed that he had filed a schedule of his debts. The cause of his…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, December 10. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, Deputy S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 December 1900 · page 3

Joseph Dalmayne was fined 5s, in default imprisonment till the rising of the court, for drunkenness on Saturday night in Hunter-street…

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Newcastle Small Debts Court Monday, December 10. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, Acting S.m.) the Interpleader Case. a Witness Narrow Escape

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 December 1900 · page 3

Further evidence was taken in the adjourned interpleader case, Thomas S. Petherbridge v. James Cofteros, Charles John Williams claimant. This was a case in…

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Theft of Nelson Relics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 December 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—A burglar has stolen many of the Nelson relics from Greenwich Hospital, including his watch, and the sword and sheath were…

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Maitland District Alleged Cattle Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 December 1900 · page 7

At tale Gresford Police Court on Monday, before Messrs. J. W. Boydell and A. Lindeman, Js.P., two drovers, Daniel Lynch and Michael Hawthorne,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, December 11. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, Deputy S.M.) Obscene Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 December 1900 · page 6

Neill Fletcher was fined £1, with the alternative of 14 days' imprisonment in Maitland Gaol, for having at about midnight on the 10th inst. made…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 12. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, &c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 December 1900 · page 6

John M'Mahon, a miner, for drunkenness, was fined 5s, in default the rising of the Court. Susan Duncan pleaded guilty to a charge of…

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Maitland District Court. (Before His Honor Judge Murray.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 December 1900 · page 7

The December sittings of the Maitland District Court were opened at East Maitland yesterday morning, before his Honor Judge Murray. Mr. G. Williams was in…

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Minmi. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 December 1900 · page 5

At Wednesday's Police Court, before Mr. M. S. Love, A.S.M., the following cases were heard:—Arthur Thomas, profane language, fined 5s, with 4s 10d costs: William Kaizer,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, December 13. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, Deputy S.M.) Drunkenness, &c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 December 1900 · page 3

John Connors and Thomas Dowling, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, and Michael Tegain, for being drunk and disorderly at Carrington,…

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Maitland District Maitland District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 December 1900 · page 8

The Court re-opened before his Honor Judge Murray at Mast Maitland yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. Borough of East Maitland v. Mary…

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The Capsized Lodore. Marine Court Inquiry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 December 1900 · page 4

The circumstances attending the capsizing of the barque Lodore were inquired into by a Marine Court, consisting of his Honor Judge Backhouse and Captains J. J. Simpson and…

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Small Debts Court. Thursday, December 13. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 December 1900 · page 7

Nolan v. Hungerford; claim for £1 0s 1d, goods supplied. Veardic for plaintiff, with costs. Innes v. Wing on War, claiming 18s…

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