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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1909

973 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 39 of 49

Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, October 16. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.). Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 October 1909 · page 7

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. John Bromley (45), labourer, charged with…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, October 18. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 7

Patrick Callaghan, charged with having been drunk in Nelson-street, was fined 10s, or 24 hours' light labour, Robert Douglas pleaded guilty to a charge of…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, October 18. (Before Mr. G. F. Adrian, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 7

Two first offenders were fined 2s 6d, and 5s, respectively for drunkenness. The latter defendant, John Bromley (45). labourer was also fined £1, in default three…

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Narrung-yarra Collision. Judgment of the Court. the Narrung at Fault. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 4

Judgment was given in the Admiralty Court to-day in the action by the Blue Anchor Line, Limited, the owners of the steamer Narrung, against Huddart,…

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A Defaulting Accountant. Robs a Chinese Company. Sentenced to Imprisonment. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 October 1909 · page 5

W. B. Wright, chief accountant of the Canton-Kowloon Railway Company, has been convicted of embezzling 22,000 dollars…

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Murder in Christchurch. Arrest of a Suspect. Wellington

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 October 1909 · page 4

A man named Arthur John Wilson Roberts, a recent arrival from Australia, was arrested to-day on a charge of murdering a waitress named Alice Newman…

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Ferrer Demonstrations. Police Charge the Socialists. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 October 1909 · page 5

Mounted police several times on Sunday afternoon charged the Social demonstrators who were marching to the Spanish Embassy, in…

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Murder in Coolgardie. Coolgardie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 October 1909 · page 5

A night watchman named Collings found a man lying dead in Bayley-street, Coolgardie, last night, with great injuries to his head…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, October 20. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 October 1909 · page 7

One first offender, for having been drunk, was fined 2s 6d, or imprisonment for five minutes. Adjourned…

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Industrial Court. Sitting in Newcastle. Alleged Breaches of Award

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 October 1909 · page 5

Judge Haydon, the President of the Industrial Court, sat at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, when penalty summonses for alleged breaches of the…

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, October 21. (Before Mr. J. M'Kensey, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 October 1909 · page 3

Vincent J. Meek was summoned by Mr. J. W. Oldham, Inspector for the municipality of Lambton, for allowing two horses to stray on the 28th September,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, October 21. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 October 1909 · page 7

Three first offenders, for drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default five minutes imprisonment. For being drunk and disorderly in Hunter-street West,…

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Industrial Court. Sitting in Newcastle. Iron Trades' Award

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 October 1909 · page 4

The sittings of the Industrial Court were continued yesterday, before Judge Heydon, at the Newcastle Courthouse. Judgment was delivered by his Honor…

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Police Spy Murdered. in St. Petersburg. Fate of a Traitor. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 October 1909 · page 5

A police spy named Federoff has been assassinated in St. Petersburg. He wormed himself into the confidence of the Revolutionarles, and upon…

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Bankruptcy Court. Thursday, October 21. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, Deputy Registrar)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 October 1909 · page 7

Re William Brighton.—Bankrupt said he was a dealer, residing at Wickham. He attributed his bankruptcy to sickness, death in the family and slackness of…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. J. M'Kensey and F. G. Adrian, D.L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 October 1909 · page 7

David Renfrew, jun., was granted a booth Heense for the eight-hour demonstration and the Wallsend races. Thomas Watson, licensee of the…

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The Coolgardie Murder. Coolgardie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 October 1909 · page 4

Peter Robusteill was brought before the Coolgardie Police Court, to-day, charged with the murder of Glovanal Forseiti, and remanded…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, October 22. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, D.S.M.) Absent Without Leave

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 October 1909 · page 7

Griffith Pritchard and Tom Jones, seamen, were charged by warrant that they did, at Port Hunter, on October 21, absent themselves from the ship Milverton…

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The New Guinea Tragedy. Murder for Loot. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 October 1909 · page 6

Further particulars of the island tragedy in which Mr. Lindsay, an English trader and most of his crew and recruits lost their lives at the hands of savages…

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Industrial Court. Sitting in Newcastle. Colliery Proprietors' Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 October 1909 · page 2

The sittings of, the Industrial Court were continued yesterday, before Judge Heydon, at the Newcastle Courthouse. His Honor delivered judgment in the…

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