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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1907

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Enmore Tragedy. Verdict of Murder. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 August 1907 · page 5

The hearing was concluded at the Central Criminal Court, Darlinghurst, to-day, before Mr. Justice Sly, of the trial of Nicholas Baxter, upon a charge of…

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Murder in Zululand

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 August 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—A rebel belonging to the Kolwa tribe in Zululand has murdered Sitstieli, a loyal chief. Other loyal chiefs in Zululand are…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, August 28. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness, &c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 August 1907 · page 7

Four first offenders pleaded guilty to having been drunk, and were each fined 5s. in default detention until the rising of the Court. For improper behaviour, Louis…

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, August 29. (Before Mr. S. Murphy, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 August 1907 · page 7

Joseph Halliday pleaded guilty to being drunk in Morehead-street, and was fined 10s and 6s costs, or ten days' imprisonment. John Harris pleaded guilty…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, August 29. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.) Drunkenness, &c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 August 1907 · page 7

Three first offenders for drunkenness were each fined 5s, in default, imprisonment till the rising of the court. Francois Coat, charged with being drunk and…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before the District Registrar, Mr. M. S. Love.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 August 1907 · page 7

Single meetings of creditors in the estate of Richard Hebblewhite, jun., miner, of Teralba, Bankrupt assigned sickness and loss of work as the cause of his…

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Small Debts Court. Thursday, August 29. (Before Mr. Love, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 August 1907 · page 7

W. Cann v. A. Ludlow, claim £1 7s 11d, goods supplied. Verdict for plaintiff. Same v. Mason, claiming £1 12s 3d, goods supplied, verdict for plaintiff…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, August 30. (Before Mr. S. Murphy, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 August 1907 · page 10

Two first offenders pleaded guilty to having been drunk, and were each fined 5s, in default detention until the rising of the court. James Neilson, charged with…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 September 1907 · page 3

Three first offenders pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, and were each fined 5s. in default detention until the rising of the court. Daniel Ryan, who…

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Murder in Hongkong. Port Darwin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 September 1907 · page 5

Intelligence has been received of a tragedy which has occurred in Hongkong. It appears that on August 4th a man…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, September 2. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 September 1907 · page 7

Four first offenders pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, and were each fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the court. Emma O'Neill…

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Police at Political Meetings. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 September 1907 · page 4

Mr. J. H. Carruthers, the State Premier, complained this afternoon of the tactics which are employed by certain persons at political meetings…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, September 3. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 September 1907 · page 7

Patrick Carlin, 50, labourer, and Richard Hinchcliffe, 31, miner, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, and were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours'…

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Murder in Persia. Assassin Commits Suicide. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 September 1907 · page 5

The assassin of the Premier of Persia was a money-changer named Abbas Ali, who, after killing a soldier attempting to arrest him, committed…

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Tugboat Employees. Application to the Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 September 1907 · page 4

The industrial dispute between the Sydney and Manly Ferry Employees' Union—Industrial Union of Employees, claimants, and John Brown and William…

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Attempted Murder. Auckland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 September 1907 · page 4

Henry Reid, 22, a miner, and a native of Tasmania, shot Lydia Gibbon, aged 22, at Nightcaps. He then attempted suicide. Reid was subsequently found in a well…

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Pelaw-main Cases. Boys Go to Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 September 1907 · page 5

At the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday, before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, P.M., Robert Arbuckle, manager of Pelawmain Colliery, proceeded against Henry…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, Sept. 4. (Before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 September 1907 · page 6

John Kelly, called to answer a summons for not having paid to the Waratah Municipal Council the sum of 5s 10d, sanitary fees, did not appear, but…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 September 1907 · page 3

Six first offenders, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, and were each fined 3s, in default, Imprisonment until the rising of the court. An old age…

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Tugboat Employees. Application to the Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 September 1907 · page 4

Argument was continued in the Arbitration Court to-day in regard to the dispute between the Manly Ferry Employees' Union, Industrial Union of Employees'…

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