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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1903

1,043 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 45 of 53

Maitland District West Maitland Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 October 1903 · page 6

Messrs. E. A. L. Sharpe, P.M., and Henry Crothers, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. William Green was fined 5s, in default…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, October 27. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 October 1903 · page 7

A first offender for being drunk was fined 5s in default detention until the rising of the court. Elizabeth Eckford pleaded guilty to being in a state of…

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Fight in a Police Court. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 October 1903 · page 6

A scene occurred in the Licensing Court this morning between two opposing solicitors, Messrs. J. R. Edwards, and Justin M'Carthy. The latter characterised a…

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Murder in London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 October 1903 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—M. Sagouni, the president of the Armenian Refugee Society, has been murdered at Nanhead (South London). The…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, Oct. 28th. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Remanded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 October 1903 · page 7

Alonzo Ashford Aulbury, on remand, was charged on warrant, with disobeying a magisterial order for the support of his wife, and on the application of Sub-Inspector Goulder,…

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Arbitration Court. Special Newcastle Tribunal. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 October 1903 · page 5

In the Legislative Council to-night, Mr. Wise, the Attorney-General, said that the Government had had under consideration the desirableness of…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, October 29th. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 7

Two first offenders for being intoxicated, were fined 5s, in default detention until the rising of the court. Remanded…

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Newcastle Arbitration Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 4

The announcement by the Attorney-General that the Government have in contemplation the establishment of a subsidiary Arbitration Court in…

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Marine Court Decisions. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 4

A Marine Court, consisting of Judge Gibson, and Captains Bracegirdle and Witherspoon, sat to-day, to finally deal with the collision which occurred in…

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Newcastle Petty Debts Court. Thursday, October 29th. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 7

Orders for the amounts claimed were made in the following cases:—Joseph Turner v. George Green, for goods sold and delivered, £1 5s, with 6s costs; same v. Thomas Howard,…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, October 29th. (Before Messrs. M. S. Love, G. F. Scott, and Dr. John Harris, L.M's.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 7

The license of the Cardiff Hotel, Cardiff, was transferred from George W. Williamson to Matthew Phillipson, and the license of the Gold Miners' Home Hotel, Lambton, was transferred…

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A Sydney Letter. Sir William Lyne As a Customs Court.—pictorial Post-cards—a Good Suggestion Capable of Improvement.—"a Voice in the Crowd" Says Something Good to Mr. Reid.—unionism and the Question of Boy Labour.—the Sobraon's Sailing Tender.—beware of Repeating the Wolverene Mistake. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 7

Sir William Lyne has decided to abolish the rule laid down by Mr. Kingston to prosecute all and sundry guilty of making mistakes, accidentally or deliberately,…

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Interstate Police Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 5

For the last day or two a number of noticeable figures have been observed on the Block. Their well-set-up style might almost make one imagine they belonged to…

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Minmi Police Court. Wednesday, October 28. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 2

Stewart Plane, John Cummins, and Edward Perry, for profane language, were each fines 5s, with 4s 10d costs, in default three days' imprisonment…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, October 30. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 3

A first offender for being drunk was fined 5s, in default detention until the rising of the court. Improper Language…

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Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 2

R. L. Durie, West Wallsend, v. Thomas Austen, goods sold and delivered, claim £4 8s 5d. Verdict for plaintiff for the amount claimed, with 7s costs. Same v…

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Maitland District Maitland Police Courts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 6

Mr. E. A. L. Sharpe, P.M., occupied the Bench at the East Maitland Police Court, yesterday. Armand Les[?] alias Arthur Leslie, a drover,…

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Our Brisbane Letter. Brisbane, October 29. the High Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 3

The first sitting of the Federal High Court. In Queensland was held in Brisbane on Monday, October 26th. The business dealt with was of very little Interest to…

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The Armenian Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 November 1903 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—At the instance of the authorities of Scotland Yard, the American police have arrested as a fugitive from justice, in Armenian…

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Newcastle Police-Court. Saturday, October 31. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 November 1903 · page 3

Three first offenders, for being drunk, were fined 5s, in default detention until the rising of the court. Improper Behaviour…

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