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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1907

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Solicitors Before the Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 6

In the Full Court to-day the reserved judgment was delivered in the matter in which Ernest Robert Abigail and John Joseph Kiely were called upon to show…

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The Case of Juror Brown. the Full Court Powerless. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 5

The Full Court this morning delivered judgment in the matter of Andrew Brown, who had been called upon to show cause why he should not be adjudged guilty of…

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CRICK V. Harnett. the Power of Parliament. Full Court Judgment. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 4

Reserved judgment was delivered by the Full Court to-day in the case of William Patrick Crick v. L. J. Harnett. By direction of the Speaker of the…

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Adelaide Gaol Irregularities. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 March 1907 · page 5

When Mr. A. Kirkpatrick became Chief Secretary he was convinced that serious breaches of the Stockade regulations by prisoners were frequent, and he found…

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Unrest in East Africa. Police Aid Sent. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 March 1907 · page 5

Somewhat disquieting reports are to hand from British East Africa. Owing to the lack of police protection natives at Nairobi insulted…

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Murder in Russia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—A youth, who is unknown, fired a revolver at Police Commissary Radsevsky, in the street at St. Petersburg, killing him. The…

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Children's Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 7

In the above court, two lads were fined 5s, costs 4s 3d, witness 7s 6d, professional costs 10s 6d. interpreter 2s 6d each, in default three days, for throwing stones…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, March 18. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 3

Abraham Gills, charged with being drunk, was fined 2s 6d, costs 6s, or 24 hours. Samuel Bennett, who was similarly charged, was fined 1s, costs 6s, or…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, March 18. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, &c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 7

Four first offenders were each fined is or imprisonment until the rising of the court for drunkenness. Irene Munro was fined 20s, in default 14 days'…

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The Land Cases. Crick and Willis Again Charged. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 5

Another indictment has been filed against W. P. Crick and W. N. Willis, as follows:— 1. That he, William Patrick Crick, was…

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Firemen and Deckhands. Arbitration Court Judgment. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 6

The President of the Arbitration Court (Judge Heydon) delivered judgment this afternoon in the dispute between the Firemen and Deckhands' Association,…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1907 · page 7

Booth licenses were granted to William Houston, Wallsend Colliery Inn, and James Conner, Westminster Hotel, for booth licenses on March 23, Newcastle…

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Children's Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1907 · page 7

In the Children's Court a man was ordered to pay 4s 6d per week each for the maintenance of two children, with costs 16s 6d in each case, in default of payment…

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American Coloured Pugilist. Fined for Assault. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1907 · page 6

At the Water Police Court to-day, Jack Johnson, the American coloured pugilist, was charged with having occasioned actual bodily harm to Allen Alexander…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, March 19. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1907 · page 7

Seven first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were fined is, or imprisonment until the rising of the Court. Nil Nilson, 36, seaman, and John Gunderson,…

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Children's Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 7

A man was fined 1s, and costs 8s, professional costs 20s, witnesses 7s 6d, in default 14 days' imprisonment, for assaulting a boy. A boy was fined 5s, and 3s 6d…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 7

A permit for music was granted to B. B. Brockwell for March 20, at the Locomotive Hotel…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, March 20. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Remanded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 7

Arthur Douse, 46, seaman, was charged with stealing one wood rack, valued at 2s 6d, the property of Charles Edward Fulton. Defendant was remanded until…

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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, March 21. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 3

The hearing of the case in which Walter Mills and Benjamin Bradley were charged with stealing one miner's taken, of the value of one penny, the property of Robert…

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Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 7

Verdicts for the amounts claimed, with costs, were given to the plaintiffs in the following cases:—Sorby and Co. v. James J. Hall, £3 14s 5d, goods sold; Basil…

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