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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1905

1,032 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 51 of 52

Northern Collieries. Appeal to the High Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 December 1905 · page 4

Argument was continued in the High Court to-day, in the case in which the Colliery Employees' Federation of the Northern District are appealing against…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 20. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 December 1905 · page 3

Samuel Bye, charged with being drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street, was fined 10s, in default 48 hours' imprisonment Improper Language…

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Northern Territory Mystery Murder or Accident? Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 December 1905 · page 5

On Tuesday, hoping that the story told by the aboriginal, Bobbie, of murders in the Northern Territory was a fiction, the Government telegraphed to the…

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Teralba. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 3

Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M., presided at the Teralba Police Court on Tuesday. Matthew M'Guinness, for drunkenness at Toronto, was fined 5s, with 6s costs, or…

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District News. Minmi. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 3

Mr. G. F. Scott, SM., presided at the Minmi Police Court on Wednesday. Henry Woods, for suffering three swine to stray, was fined is, with 6s costs, in…

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Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 6

Messrs. E. A. L. Sharpe, P.M., and Henry Crothers, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court, yesterday. George Moore, Cecil Smith, and Richard…

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Waratah. Police Change

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 6

Constable Mulcahy, who has been stationed here for upwards of two years, has been transferred to Gloucester. The constable, while here, gained general approval…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, December 21st. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 7

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. Vagrancy Charges…

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High Court Judgment. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 5

The High Court delivered its reserved decision to-day in the appeal of Margaret L. A. Hutchinson and Samuel A. Hutchinson, against a decree of the Chief Judge…

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Small Debts Court. Thursday, December 21st. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.). Undefended Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 7

In the following undefended cases verdicts were given for plaintiffs for the amounts claimed:— J. Shedden v. David Fuller, goods sold…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, December 21. (Before Messrs. M. S. Love, Chairman, and G. F. Scott, L.M.) Renewals of Billiard Licenses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 7

Renewals of billiard licenses were grated to Isaac Banks and James Bell, Newcastle; Edward Blackburn, Merewether; John Court, Adamstown; T. H…

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Cab-stealing in London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 3

Cab-stealing is by no means an uncommon thing in London. A cabman who has had any experience in the great metropolis would not take the…

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Procuration to Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Hugh Watt, a former member of the British Parliament, who was convicted on a charge of attempting to procure a…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 22. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 2

Four first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were fined 5s each, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court…

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High Court Judgment. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 5

The High Court to-day delivered its reserved judgment in the appeal case of the Commissioners of Taxation v. Edward Joseph Mooney. In the first place the…

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Northern Collieries. High Court Judgment. Employees' Appeal Dismissed Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 5

Judgment was given in the High Court to-day, in the case in which the Colliery Employees' Federation of the Northern District appealed against the decision of…

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Children's Court. Friday, December 22nd. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 2

A lad aged 13 was charged with stealing four bags, valued at 1s, the property of Morris Light. The accused admitted the offence, and stated that he had sold the…

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Assault in Sydney. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 December 1905 · page 5

A brutal assault was man on a man named John King, in Mills-street, Pyrmont, last night. King, who resides in Harris-street, Pyrmont, was attacked by…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, December 23. (Before Mr. G F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 December 1905 · page 7

Two first offenders; charged with drunkenness, were fined 5s each, in default imprisonment until the rising of the court. Alleged Vagrancy…

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Murder of a Constable. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 December 1905 · page 5

The police to-night received information from Mackay to the effect that Constable Price was yesterday attempting to arrest a Cingalese, when the latter drew…

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