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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1905

1,032 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 52

The Arbitration Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 March 1905 · page 7

Sir,—All, I presume, will admit Mr. Bowling's ability and right to be accepted as an authority on mining disputes in particular and mining…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, March 18. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 March 1905 · page 7

Seven first offenders were each fined 5s, in default to be imprisoned until the rising of the court, for drunkenness. Francis Duffy was fined 5s, in…

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Summons Division. Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 March 1905 · page 7

Ernest Lahiff, a boy of 12, was charged with having stolen sixpenny- worth of coal, the property of the Australian Agricultural Company, on…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, March 20. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 March 1905 · page 7

Thirteen first offenders were each fined 5s, in default to be imprisoned until the rising of the court, for drunkenness…

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The High Court. Sitting in Sydney. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 March 1905 · page 5

The High Court of Australia commenced its first sittings in Sydney for the present year at Darlinghurst this morning, their Honors the Chief Justice, Sir…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, March 21. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1905 · page 7

A first offender was fined 5s, in default to be imprisoned until the rising of the court, for drunkenness, John Strothers, a seaman, was similarly…

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The High Court Dispute. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1905 · page 4

Sir Josiah Symon, the Federal Attorney-General, referring to the statement by Sir Samuel Griffith, the Chief Justice of the High Court, in Sydney that he had to…

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CARTERS' & Draymen's Award Full Court Decision. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1905 · page 5

The Full Court to-day, delivered reserved judgment in the appeal arising out of the industrial dispute between the Trolly Draymen and Carters' Union and…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, March 22. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 7

Five first offenders were each fined 5s, in default to be imprisoned until the rising of the court, for drunkenness. William Hannah was fined 5s,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, March 23. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 7

August Maswets was fined 5s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk in Hunter-street on Wednesday night…

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Charge of Murder. Accused Found Guilty. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 5

At the Central Criminal Court to-day, Oswald O'Hara was charged with having, at Sydney, on the 19th November, Murdered his wife, Mary O'Hara, aged 18…

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Small Debts Court. Thursday, March 23. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Undefended Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 7

In the following cases, verdicts were given for the plaintiffs for the amounts state:— William Marshall v. George Reid,…

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Bankruptcy Court. Thursday, March 23. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, District Registrar.) A Miner's Bankruptcy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 7

In the public examination in the estates of Charles Seidenkamp, coal miner, of Gateshead, Charlestown, Seidenkamp attributed his bankruptcy to…

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Licensing Court. Thursday, March 23. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott and Dr. John Harris, L.Ms.) Various Applications

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 7

The license of the Post Office Hotel, Waratah, was transferred from Thomas O'Malley to Solomon Green. The license of Joseph Garratt,…

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Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 6

The next sitting of the Maitland Circuit Court will be opened on the 5th April, before Mr. Justice Walker, but as that date happens to be the second day of the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, March 24. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 7

A first offender was fined 5s, in default to be imprisoned until the rising of the court, for drunkenness. Margaret Findley was similarly dealt with for having been…

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Alleged Contempt of Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 5

The case in which Alexander Robert Minter and Edward Percy Simpson, solicitors, were plaintiffs, and J. B. Mimna, solicitor, was the defendant, was again before…

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Appeal Court. Friday, March 24. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 7

A court of appeal against assessments in the municipality of Newcastle was held at the Newcastle Courthouse. Mr. W. H. Baker represented the council. Mr. E…

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Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 6

At the Circuit Court, which will commence its April sitting at East Maitland on the 5th April, the list of cases set down for trial is the heaviest for many…

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Killingworth. Police Protection Wanted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 6

The executive of the Progress committee, when notifying that a meeting of the residents would be held in the public hall on Friday night to consider the…

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