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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1909

973 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 49

An Irish Crime. Murder of a Constable. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1909 · page 5

Two men named Michael Dermody and Thomas Hynes have been remanded at Galway on a charge of murdering Constable Martin Goldrick, on the…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. W. Clarke, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1909 · page 7

James George Cameron, licensee of Cameron's Family Hotel, Newcastle, was granted a music permit for March 24…

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Summons Division. Alleged Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1909 · page 7

Matilda Bennett proceeded against Harriet Nicholson, of Newcastle, on a charge of assault. Mr. W. A. Reid (Messrs. Reid and Reid) appeared for the…

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Murder in Tennessee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1909 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—Colonel Cooper and his son, Robin Cooper, have been found guilty of murdering Senator Carmack, at Nashville, Tennesseo…

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Murder in Sumatra. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1909 · page 6

On February 15th, Messrs. D. and J. Fowler, of Fremantle, agents for the De Bataajalie Petroleum Maatschappij, of Sumatra, received a cable message…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, March 24. (Before Mr. W. Clarke, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1909 · page 7

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default an hour's imprisonment. Irene Munro, 52, and Charles Henry, 68,…

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Broken Hill Difficulty. Application to High Court. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1909 · page 5

Mr. W. H. Irvine, K.C., applied to the High Court to-day, on behalf of the Proprietary Company, for a rule nisi for the prohibition or an order to set aside…

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, March 25

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1909 · page 7

Mathew Ridley pleaded guilty to being drunk at Lambton, and was fined £1, with 6s costs. Richard Hill was charged with using improper language in the bar of…

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Murder of a Russian

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1909 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The body of a young Russian, supposed to have been a traitorous spy, has been found in a trunk in the garret of a house in…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, March 25. (Before Mr. W. Clarke, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1909 · page 7

Four first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default imprisonment for one hour. John Gafney (31), seaman, was fined 10s, In…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. W. Clarke, Deputy Registrar.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1909 · page 7

Re Edward Henry Gray, formerly hotel-keeper, of Milithorpe.—The public examination was declared concluded…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. W. Clarke, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1909 · page 7

James Cofteros, restaurant-keeper, proceeded against Aubrey Fullford, of Newcastle, to recover £1 18s, being 5s for meals supplied, £1 for money lent, 2s…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. W. Clarke, S.M., and Dr. John Harris, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1909 · page 7

Renewals of publicans' licenses were granted as follows:—Ernest Francis Garratt, Commercial Hotel, Boolaroo; Patrick Joseph Grealey, Gladstone Hotel,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, March 20. (Before Mr. W. Clarke, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1909 · page 3

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default one hour's imprisonment. Remanded…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, March 27. (Before Mr. W. Clarke, S.M.) Improper Behaviour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1909 · page 7

Samuel Lambert (29), miner, and Ethel Hitchman (24), married woman, were each fined £5, in default two months' imprisonment, for improper behaviour…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1909 · page 6

Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Archibald Kerrigan appeared in…

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Alleged Gaol Escapee. Recaptured in Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1909 · page 5

For nearly four months Frank Ridgeway, 19 years of age, who escaped from the Nyngan lockup, where he was under remand on a charge of stealing, managed…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, March 29. (Before Mr. F. P. Meares, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1909 · page 7

Five first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default, imprisonment until the rising of the court, and two, for the one of whom Mr. H…

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Divorce Court. a Wallsend Case. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1909 · page 5

In the Divorce Curt to-day, before Mr. Justice Pring, at suit was heard in which Zella Thompson Morris, formerly Grierson, petitioned on the ground of desertion,…

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Industrial Court. Colliery Mechanics' Board. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1909 · page 4

The matters of the nomination of members of the Newcastle Collieries Mechanics' Board, and the Maitland Collieries Mechanics Board, were again called on…

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