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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1901

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Bankruptcy Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 December 1901 · page 3

Henry Sidebottom, on being examined, deposed that he was a bushman residing at Cardiff, and had a wife and nine children. The cause of his…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, December 30. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 December 1901 · page 7

Two first offenders were fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the court; and two, who had been admitted to ball were fined 5s each, in default…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, December 30. (Before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 December 1901 · page 3

Frederick Carter pleaded not guilty to a charge of making use of indecent language in Nelson-street on the 24th December…

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South Africa. Trial of Scheepers. Murder and Arson

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 December 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The trial by Court-Martial of the Boer Commander Scheepers, who was captured at a farmhouse at Kopjeskraal on the 12th…

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Marine Court. Collision in Sydney Harbour. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 December 1901 · page 6

The inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision which occurred between the steamer Bunya Bunya and Kurraba, in Sydney Harbour, on Friday,…

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