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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1903

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 31. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.). Drunkenness, etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 January 1903 · page 7

One first offender for being drunk was fined 5s, in default to be detained until the rising of the court. Theodore Logan for indecent language was fined £1, or…

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Arbitration Court Award. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 January 1903 · page 5

The president (Mr. Justice Cohen) to-day delivered the award of the Arbitration Court in the industrial dispute between the Undertakers' Employees and…

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Murder in Essex

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 January 1903 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The mutilated bodies of a Camberwell grocer named Darby, and his wife and infant have been discovered in a garden at Leyton,…

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Police Without Pay

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 January 1903 · page 7

Some of the country districts of Jersey are busy electing their police officers. It is one of the peculiarities of the island, that citizens of position serve as…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, January 1. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.). Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 January 1903 · page 7

William Toomey, Mary French, David Melville, and George Wilson were each charged with being drunk on New Year's Eve, and fined 5s, in default to be detained…

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Lambton Police Court. Friday, January 2. (Before Mr G. F. Scott, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 6

Constable Webster proceeded against John Donnelly for using insulting language towards him on the 3rd of December. Defendant was fined 5s and ordered…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, January 2. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 7

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was admonished and discharged. Charge of Larceny…

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Small Derts Court. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 6

Mr. Hart, assessor for the Hunter River Water Board, obtained verdicts for arrears of rates against the following:— a. Quin, 5s, with 5s costs J. E. Davis, 11s…

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Greta Small Debts Court. Wednesday, December 31. (Before Mr. W. B. Smith, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 3

B. Pryor v. C. Harnan, goods sold, £2 16s 3d; Verdict for plaintiff, with 3s costs. POLICE COURT. C. Harnan pleaded guilty to being drunk…

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Suspected Murder. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 January 1903 · page 5

The Commissioner of Police received a report to-day from Mounted-constable Schumann, stationed at Stirling West, about ten miles from the city, that a man…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, January 3. 1903. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Riotous Conduct

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 January 1903 · page 7

William Mars was fined 5s, in default 24 hours, for riotous behaviour in Watt-street. Disobeying a Summons…

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West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1903 · page 6

Messrs. W. G. B. Smith, P.M., and H. Crothers, J.P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Frank Robinson was fined 5s, and…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, January 5th. (Before Mr. Love, S.M.) Alleged Horse Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1903 · page 7

Joseph Francis Eade, a boy of 11 years of ago, was charged with stealing a horse value £8, the property of Joseph Smith, of Wallsend, on the 18th December, 1902…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 5. (Before Mr. G.F. Scott, D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1903 · page 7

Four first offenders for being drunk were fined 5s, in default to be detained until the rising of the Court. Leo Pike, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 5s, in…

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Russian Court Mystery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 January 1903 · page 3

In reference to the reports in circulation regarding the influence exercised by a Monsleur Philippe upon the Czar, advices from St. Petersburg state that the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, January 6. (Before Mr. G.F. Scott, Acting-S.M.) Drunkenness, &C

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 January 1903 · page 7

Three first offenders or being drunk were lined 5s, in default to be detained until the rising of the court. Papan Hoosan for indecency was fined 5s, or 24…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, January 7. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, A.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 January 1903 · page 7

George Marney for being drunk in Hunter-street and William Hamm, for a similar offence, in Darby-street, were each fined 5s, in default to be Imprisoned until…

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Charlestown Police Court. Tuesday, January 6th

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 January 1903 · page 3

Before M. S. Love. S.M., Margaret M'Lister, for being drung in Ocean-street, Dudley, was fined 1s, with 4s 6d costs, in default six hours' imprisonment…

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Maitland District Burglary at East Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 January 1903 · page 6

The ticket office at the Victoria-street railway station was entered by burglars on Wednesday evening, but the intruders failed to annex any cash. The clerk in…

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Minmi Police Court. Wednesday, January 7. (Before Mr. Love, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 January 1903 · page 6

G. Durie, manager for Messrs. J. and A, Brown, proceeded against James. Fairfull for alleged breach of the special place rule, No. 25, of the rules of Brown's…

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