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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1906

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 November 1906 · page 6

At the West Maitland Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. Stephen Murphy, P.M., John Chick, a youth, was charged with having, between the 1st and 9th…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, November 10. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness, etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 November 1906 · page 3

Dear Smith and Alice Franklin, for having been drunk, were each fined 5s or 24 hours; and John Green, a miner, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 10s…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, November 12. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 November 1906 · page 3

Nine first offenders for drunkenness were each fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the court. William M'Leod and Timothy Skelham,…

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Troubles of Russia. Anarchy and Murder. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 November 1906 · page 5

Ten masked robbers gained an entrance into a fort at Sebastopol, gagged the officer commanding, and stole a number of carbines. The…

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Attempted Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 November 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—A bomb was thrown on Sunday at the Burgomaster of Moscow, but failed. A policeman shot the thrower of the…

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Children's Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 November 1906 · page 7

Two youths, one 16 years and the other 15 years and three months, were charged with, in company, assaulting another lad with intent to prevent him working at…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 November 1906 · page 7

One first offender, chared with drunkenness, was fined 5s, or detention until the rising of the court. Thomas Maginness, alias Bernard Halpin, 39 years, tinsmith,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, November 14. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, &c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 November 1906 · page 7

Robert Bourke, for drunkenness in Scott-street, was fined 10s, in default seven days' imprisonment. There first offenders charged with drunkenness were…

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State Arbitration Court. Carpenters and Joiners Award. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 November 1906 · page 5

Reserved judgment was delivered by the State Arbitration Court to-day in the case of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters against thee Haberfield…

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Russian Trials. Girl Sentenced to Death. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 5

Of five persons 4 who were tried by court-martial at Odessa on charges of bomb-throwing, three, including a girl, were sentenced to death, and two…

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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, November 15. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 3

Gardiner Young pleaded guilty to being on the licensed promises of the Colliery Inn, Wallsend, on Sunday, the 21st October, without lawful excuse, and was fined…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, November 15. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Improper Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 7

Williams Stephens, 34 years, seaman, for having used improper language, was fined 10s, in default seven days. Remanded…

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Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. Alleged Cattle Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 6

Before Mr. S. Murphy, P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, Frederick George Sparke was charged with stealing, at Greta, on the 25th…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 7

W. Cook v. J. F. Burke, claim for £1 19s, work and labour. Mr. W. H. Baker appeared for the plaintiff, for whom a verdict was given, with 12s costs…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, Registrar.) Single Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 7

Ro Herbert Edward Dee, of Mayfield, builder. The bankrupt said his bankruptcy was caused by illness and over speculation in house property. It had been…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 3

James Hayes v. Hugh Buchanan, claim for loss of horse. Mr. J. A. Wood appeared for the defendant. The evidence in this case was heard on the 1st instant,…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott and Dr. J. Harris, L.Ms.) Renewal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 7

Morgan Jones, of the Carrington Club Hotel, Carrington, applied for a renewal of his license. The application was granted, the assessed annual value being…

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Murder in England

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—At the Essex Assizes at Chelmsford yesterday Richard Buckham and Robert Charles Buckham, two youths, were charged with…

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Attack on a Gaol-governor. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 5

An attempt on the life of Mr. Quaine, the Deputy-Governor of Parramatta Gaol, was made this afternoon. It appears that Mr. Quaine had all the…

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Children's Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 2

In the Children's Court, an order was made against the defendant in an affiliation case from Merewether, for the payment of 4s a week. He was also ordered…

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