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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1901

984 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 50

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 March 1901 · page 3

Marks v. [?] claiming £1 11s for goods supplied Verdict for plaintiff. Howard v. Godfrey, claiming £2 5s,…

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A Sydney Letter. the Sydenham Railway Accident.—the Profits of a Chemist.—the Plague Scare.—the Commonwealth Parliament and Prayer.—the Kanaka Must Go. Careless Tram Conductors.—youthful Marriages and the Divorce Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 March 1901 · page 3

Just imagine a man keeping the times of trains for the fun of the thing! You can imagine a man keeping fox-terriers, or even snakes, but a voluntary check of train…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, March 8. (Before Mr. Donaldson, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 March 1901 · page 3

Four first offenders for drunkenness were admonished and discharged. One of the quartette was a mere boy, and the S.M. told him if he did not…

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The Assault on the Kaiser. the Assailant a Lunatic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 March 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The German Emperor received a contused wound on his right cheek, an inch and a half long, and penetrating to the bone,…

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Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 March 1901 · page 3

On Thursday, before Mr. Donaldson, S.M., the case Marks v. Dolan, claiming £1 11s, resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, March 9. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 March 1901 · page 3

Thomas Moran, John Collins, and Ola Woollar were each fined 2s 6d, with the option of imprisonment till the rising of the court, for having on…

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East Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1901 · page 8

At the East Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Mears, acting P.M., Alfred Baker, a youth, was charged under section 94 of the Railway Act with…

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Maitland District West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1901 · page 8

Messrs. F. W. Mears, P.M., H. Crothers, and E. Bowden, Js.P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday…

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Belmont Police Station

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1901 · page 3

The old Presbyterian Manse at Belmont has been rented by the Government, and is now doing service as a police station. The building stands on the side of a ridge in a…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, March 11. (Before Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1901 · page 7

John O'Halloran pleaded guilty to being drunk and was admonished and discharged. Mark Laverick was charged with a…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, March 11. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, &c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1901 · page 3

Fourteen first offenders were fined for drunkenness. Arthur Brown, a second offender, was fined 10s. For behaving indecently in…

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Teralba. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1901 · page 8

The fortnightly court was held yesterday. Mr. L. S. Donaldson, S.M., presiding. B. Lewis, charged with being drunk in Margaret-street, Teralba, on Sunday last, pleaded…

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Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1901 · page 3

Albert Isenhood and Thomas Ward, young men, were charged with having, at Newcastle, on January 12, assaulted a seaman named Alexander England…

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A Push Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1901 · page 3

Charles Johnson, alias Hayes, Charles Pickup or Livingstone, alias Johnson, and Daniel Rogan, alias Denis or William, three youths, were indicted with having, in…

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Alleged Indecent Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1901 · page 3

Constantine Bretto was charged with having, at Newcastle, on January 28, indecently assaulted Emily Watson. Mr. R. Windeyer (instructed by Mr. J…

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Powell's Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Twelve hundred Canadians will said from Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 20th instant, to join Baden-Powell's police…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1901 · page 3

Alexander Beeson, for drunkenness, was fined 5s, and two first offenders for a like offence"got the rising.'" A French seaman for indecent…

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Presentation at the Police Station

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1901 · page 5

Last evening the officers and members of the local police force assembled at the police station for the purpose of presenting…

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Indecent Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1901 · page 3

Charles Hansen was charged with having, at Carrington, on December 16th last, indecently assaulted a child under the age of 14 years, to wit, 11 years…

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A Brutal Assault.—grievous Bodily Harm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1901 · page 3

William Allanson pleaded not guilty to a charge of having, at Newcastle, on the 16th ult., Inflicted grievous bodily harm on one Yow Lee…

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