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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1905

1,032 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 52

Solicitor Sent to Gaol. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1905 · page 5

The Chief Judge in Equity, Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson, had before him to-day the case of J. B. Mimna, a solicitor of the Supreme Court. It appeared that in March…

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The Tatura Murder. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1905 · page 5

Constable Twomey, of Hamilton, yesterday received a telephone message from Mr. Molesworth, of Mount Napier, that a man answering the description of James…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, May 2. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1905 · page 7

Three first offenders were fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the court, for drunkenness. Albert Francis was fined 10s, with…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, May 3. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 May 1905 · page 7

Three first offenders were fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court, for drunkenness. Maria Edwards was fined 20s, with…

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Charlestown. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 7

At the Charlestown Police Court yesterday, before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M., Constable Shaw proceeded against. Thomas Rudge and Michael Fitzsimmons for…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, May 4. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 7

A first offender was fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the court, for drunkenness. Disobedience…

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Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 7

In the following undefended cases verdicts were given for the amounts stated:— Barnett Phillips v. W. T. Broadfoot…

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Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. M. S. Love, Chairman, G. F. Scott, and Dr. John Harris, members of the Licensing Bench.) Withdrawn

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 7

The applications of William George King and Henry George Jameson, for publicans' conditional licenses at West Wallsend and Killingworth…

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Theft of Jewels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—A case of valuable jewels belonging to the Earl of Chesterfield, was stolen yesterday from a cab in Grosvenor Square,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, May 5. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1905 · page 2

Two first offenders were fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court, for drunkenness. For being drunk in Bolton-street,…

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The High Court. Sydney

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

There was no business before the High Court to-day. The Chief Justice, when the court met, said he had a couple of announcements to make. The first was in…

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The Abermain Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 May 1905 · page 6

No fresh developments have arisen in connection with the assault on the Rev. F. D. M'Auliffe near Abermain on Tuesday. The police have been on the alert, but…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, May 6. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 May 1905 · page 7

For being drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street, William Buckley was fined 10s, in default seven days' imprisonment…

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Murder of King Humbert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Biondina Brescis, who is alleged to have been an accomplice in the assassination of the late King Humbert, of Italy, has been…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, May 8. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 3

Elias Brennan pleaded guilty to having been drunk in Nelson-street on the 29th April, and was fined 1s, and 5s 6d costs…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, May 8. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 7

Ten first offenders were fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of Court, for drunkenneess. One of them being on old age pensioner, was…

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Marine Court Inquiry. the Kuring-gai. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 5

The circumstances in connection with the collision of the Manly ferry steamer Kuring-gal, with a wharf at Circular Quay, which took place on the 1st April,…

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Burglary at Carrington

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1905 · page 5

A burglary was perpetrated in the early hours of yesterday morning, when the large plate-glass window of Mr. W. R. Stirling's store, in Dension-steet…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, May 9. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.). Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1905 · page 7

Two first offenders were fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court, for drunkenness. For being drunk in Maitland-street,…

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Proceedings in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 May 1905 · page 5

Prosecutions were yesterday initiated in the Newcastle Police Court, before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M., against several offenders against the cleanliness of Newcastle and…

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