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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1905

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Bankruptcy Court. Thursday, June 8. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, District Registrar.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 7

A single meeting of creditors and public examination were held in the bankrupt estate of Abraham Scorer, of Kenrick-street, Junction, trading…

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Newcastle District Court. Thursday, 8th JUNE. (Before His Honor Judge Fitzhardinge.).NON-SUITED

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 7

Walter Henry Parke sued William Pike for £50 for breach of agreement, alleging that it was agreed between the plaintiff and the defendant…

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Small Debts Court. Thursday, June 8. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Undefended Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 7

Verdicts were given for plaintiffs in the following cases:—J. Mackie and Co. v. Walter Fulton, North Sydney, goods sold, £2 18s 6d,…

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Licensing Court. Thursday, June 8. (Before Messrs. M. S. Love, G. F. Scott, and Dr. John Harris, L.Ms.) Various Applications

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 7

John Conrad Moodie was granted a renewal of the license of the Changing Station Hotel, Islington. The certificate of license of the Lord…

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A Sydney Letter. Mr. O'sullivan Faces, Not the Dawn, But the Future.—the Admiralty and Its Necessities in Sydney Harbour.—a Question of Gas V. Kerosene.—the High Court and Another "High Court."—a Little Thing on "Nipping."—society's Demand—"move On.". Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 7

Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan was at one time anxious for Australia to face the dawn. He is at present anxious for her to face the future. "Actuated by…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, 9th JUNE. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1905 · page 3

Robert Horsborgh was sentenced to two months imprisonment, with hard labour, in Maitland Gaol, for impropriety in Little William-street, Stockton…

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Police for Hexham

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 June 1905 · page 6

Sir,—The writer who asks for police protection at Hexham is altogether inaccurate in the story which he gives to the public. In the first place, the young woman he…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, 10th JUNE. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.). Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 June 1905 · page 3

A first offender was fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the court, for drunkenness. For being drunk in Watt-street, Maggie Rogers was fined 5s, with…

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Fire at Earl's Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 June 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The Welcome Club, Earl's Court, has been partially burnt, but the Earl's Court Exhibition itself was saved…

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Charge of Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Mr. Stewart, compound manger at the Croesus Mine, Johannesburg, has been remanded on a charge of murder…

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Murder of a Consul

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—A gang of Moors entered the Austro-Hungarian Vice Consulate at Mozagan, in Morocco, and killed the Vice-Consul. They also…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, June 12th. (Before Mr. Love, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 6

John Horn pleaded guilty to having been drunk in the Reserve, near the tram terminus, on Tuesday, the 6th instant, and was fined 5s, in default imprisonment until…

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Newcastle Police Court. MONDAY, 12th JUNE. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 2

Four first offenders were fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the court, for drunkenness. For being drunk in Scott-street…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. Love, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 6

Edward Walton, a miner, residing at West Wallsend, deposed that he had filed a statement of his affairs. The liabilities were £39 18s 6d, and the assets, including…

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Marine Court Inquiry. Peterborough-jessie Collision. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 5

The circumstances attending the collision which took place on May 19, off Sydney Heads, between the steamer Peterborough and the ketch Jessie, in which the latter…

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Court Procedure

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1905 · page 6

Mr. J. M. Hyde, President of the Chamber of Commerce, his addressed the following letter to the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice:—…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, June 13. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1905 · page 2

A first offender was fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the court, [?] drunkenness. For being drunk in Bolton-street Emma Coleman was fined 5s,…

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The Police of the Rand

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1905 · page 5

The accompanying sketch will be noted with interest. It was made from a group picture taken in South Africa, and the subject is, "The Police of the Rand."…

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The Federal High Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1905 · page 6

The Federal Chief Justice, the highest legal authority in Australasia (Sir S. W. Grfilth, G.C.M.G.), gives a wonderful testimonial to…

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Charlestown Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1905 · page 3

At the Charlestown Police Court on Tuesday before Mr. S. M. Love, S.M., Robert Dawson, George Mathieson, Mark Bell, and George Lord, were each fined…

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