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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1907

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Murder of Albanians

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Two thousand Montenegrins crossed the Turkish frontier and massacred the inhabitants of two Albanian villages near Gusinje…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, December 16. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 3

John Roy pleaded guilty to using improper language in Nelson-street, and was fined 15s, and costs 6s, or 14 days. A first offender, charged with being…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, December 16. (Before Mr. F. P. Meares, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 7

Four persons pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, and, being first offenders, were each fined 5s, in default detention until the rising of the court.. Charles…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, December 17. (Before Mr. F. P. Meares, D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 December 1907 · page 3

Two first offenders pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, and were each fined 5s, in default detention until the rising of the Court…

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Burglary in London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—Burglars broke into the premises of Messrs. R. H. Halford and Sons, jewellers, etc., 41 Pall Mall, London, and stole…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 18. (Before Mr. F. P. Meares, D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 3

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default detention until the rising of the Court, Thomas Love, 31, cook, also charged with drunkenness, was…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, December 19. (Before Mr. F. P. Meares, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 3

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default detention until the rising of the Court James Thompson, 22, seaman, for using improper language,…

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Acquitted of Murder. a London Trial. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 5

Robert Wood, aged 29, an artist, of Frederick-street. Gray's Inn Road, was acquitted at the Old Bailey yesterday of the charge of murdering a girl…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 20. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, D.S.M.) Wilful Disobedience

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 13

Alfred Bennett, 46, was charged with having wilfully disobeyed the lawful command of James Watson, master of the British vessel Dee, at present lying in…

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Marine Court Inquiry. Sphene-peterborough Case. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 5

The Marine Court—Acting Judge Scholes and Captains Henry Witherspoon and Frederick Bracegirdle (assessors)—held an inquiry in the Sydney District…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 December 1907 · page 6

Messrs. C. H. Gale, P.M., and John Enright, J. P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court on Saturday. Solomon Hancock was fined 5s, in default…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, December 21. (Before Mr. F. P. Meares, D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 December 1907 · page 3

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, pleaded guilty, and were each fined 5s, in default detention until the rising of the court James Collins, also…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 December 1907 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, police magistrate, occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morning. Two youths, Robert Coward and…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 December 1907 · page 3

Eight persons pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, and being first offenders, were each fined 5s, in default detention until the rising of the Court. Peter…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, December 24. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 December 1907 · page 7

Six persons peaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, and being first offenders, were each fined 5s, in default detention until the rising of the Court. William…

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Alleged Gold Stealing. the Bendigo Cases. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 December 1907 · page 5

Details concerning the alleged robberies of gold at Bendigo are now to hand. It appears that a gold-buyer named Arthur Cook Thorn, recently applied for the…

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Crime in India. Magistrate Shot. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 December 1907 · page 5

The young natives of Goalanda, in East Bengal, shot Mr. Allen, the ma[?]rate at Dacca, and escaped. A Allen is in a critical condition…

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Man Charged with Electricity

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 December 1907 · page 2

The world is amazed when it stops to consider how things have been revolutionised by electricity. We have not only the telegraph and the telephone, but the…

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Collision at Sea. Masters Before the Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 December 1907 · page 6

Frank Basclain, master of the steamer Peterborough, and Denis Crowley, master of the steamer Sphene, appeared before the Marine Court—Acting Judge Scholes…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, December 28. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 December 1907 · page 3

Four first offenders, for having been drunk, were each fined is, or the rising of the Court; and Joseph Rouse, 58 years; miner, was fined 5s or 24 hours. Robert…

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