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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1905

1,032 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 36 of 52

Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 7

In the Small Debts Court, before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M., George Hardy and Coy, sued James White for the recovery of the sum of £16, goods sold and delivered. A…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, August 31. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.). Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 7

Five first offenders were fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the court for drunkenness. Improper Language…

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Petty Debts Court. Thursday, August 31. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.). Undefended Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 7

In the following undefended cases verdicts were returned for plaintiffs for the amounts claimed:— Walter Neve v. F. Roebuck, funeral…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, August 31. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, Chairman, and Dr. John Harris, J.P.) Withdrawn

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 7

The application of the police for the cancellation of the publican's license or Arthur Fuller, licensee of the Baden Powell Hotel. was withdrawn, the license…

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A Sydney Letter. Glad That the Coal Trade Is Reviving. — Glad Also That Peace Is Proclaimed and Regarding Other Things. — the Licensed Victuallers Experience a Feeling of Alarm — the Great Cost of a District Court Action.—more Slanders, As Hamlet Would Say.—why Are We So Sensitive About What the "London Paper" Says of Australia? Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 7

We are all fairly close observes down here of everything that pertains to the coal trade of Newcastle. As a consequence there is a note a satisfaction that…

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A Mysterious Murder

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

A supposed murder has taken place near Tapanul, a Chinese being found dead in his hut, shot through the head, the wound being evidently not self-inflicted. He was…

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Assault on a Constable. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 5

The police received word yesterday that Michael Carr, who shot Constable Watts on Monday, had been begging for food in the Darling Ranges. Troopers were…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, September 1. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Discharged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 10

John Callaghan was charged with being disorderly on board the steamer Wimmere, but as the prosecutor failed to appear accused was discharged…

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The Arbitration Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 4

Mr. Wade, the Attorney-General, stated to-day that he had decided to take steps to fill the vacancy in the representation or the industrial union of employees in the…

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Murder on the High Seas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 September 1905 · page 6

The London Press Association states that despatches from New Orleans received on July 21 contain particulars of the murder of 12 persons on board the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, September 2. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 September 1905 · page 2

Three first offenders were fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the court for drunkenness. For riotous behaviour in Hunter-street,…

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Death in the Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1905 · page 6

An inquest was held at the Maitland Gaol yesterday morning, before Mr. E. A. L. Sharpe, district coroner, and six juryincn, concerning the death of a prisoner…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, September 4. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1905 · page 7

Seven first offenders charged with drunkenness, were fined 5s in default imprisonment until the rising of the court. For improper behaviour in…

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District Court Bailiff's Fees. Sydney

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

The Chief Justice and a Jury had before them to-day an action in which Samuel Withers, chief bailiff in the District Court, sued James Leslie Williams, as nominal…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, September 5. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1905 · page 7

A first offender was fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the court, for drunkenness. Emma O'Neill was charged with being…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, September 6th. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

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

Two first offenders were fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the court, for drunkenness. Frederick Turnbull was fined £2, in…

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Russian Horrors. Pillage and Murder. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1905 · page 5

Reuter's correspondent at Tiflis reports that hordes of [?]artar retugees are terrorising the south-east of the Caucasus…

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Murder and Suicide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 September 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—A sensation has been caused in Moscow by the suicide of Mme. Witte's nephew, of the Khotinsky Volunteer Dragoon…

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Murder in Constaninople

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 September 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—An Armenian named Vartenian, a naturalised American, has been sentenced to death at Constantinople for killing Apik…

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Murder for Five Francs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 September 1905 · page 6

For five francs a shepherd-boy, aged 12, has been induced to commit a horrible murder in the Jura. The instigator of the crime, who paid him the money, was…

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