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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1909

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 November 1909 · page 2

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default imprisonment for five minutes. Nellie French (54), machinist, was fined…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, November 22. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 7

In the charge division, Konrad Prismer, charged with improper language, pleaded guilty, and was fined 20s, or seven days' light labour…

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The Dungog Murder. Identity of Victim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 6

Report have been received by Superintendent Saunders form Inspector Sykes, At Dungog, giving further details concerning the tragedy…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, November 22. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 7

Five first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were cash fined 2s 6d in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court, Elizabeth Power (47) servant,…

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The Dungog Murder. Smart Police Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 November 1909 · page 6

The investigations made by the police in connection with the discovery of the body of a man near Dungog on Friday night have constituted a vey smart piece of…

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Assault and Robbery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 November 1909 · page 3

John Edward Williams pleaded not guilty to assaulting Sheik Amir, at Newcastle, on November 6, and robbing him of £3 2s 9d. The prosecutor is a Bengalese…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, November 23. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Drunkenness

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

Edward Henry Clegg, for drunkennes, was fined 10s, in default, seven days' imprisonment. Auctioneers' Licenses…

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Newcastle Rating Case. High Court Appeal. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 November 1909 · page 6

The hearing was commenced by the High Court, to-day, of argument in the appeal on behalf of George Bushby Knowles, representing the Chief…

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Improper Assault

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

Henry Hollis was convicted of improper assault at Raymond Terrace and sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour in Goulburn Gaol…

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Theft of Money

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

Reginald Arthur Ashley, who had pleaded guilty to stealing £6 4s, the property of William John, Morris, at Sparke's railway camp, on November 8th, was…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, November 24. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Absent Without Leave

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

Jean Kervaree (40), and Auguste Mainguy (20), seamen, were charged with being absent without leave from the French vessel Jean. The defendants pleaded not…

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Newcastle Rating Case. High Court Appeal. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 November 1909 · page 3

The hearing was continued by the High Court to-day of argument in the appeal on behalf of George Bushby Knowles representing the Chief Commissioner for…

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Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 November 1909 · page 6

Mr. J. M'Kensey, P.M., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Mary Elizabeth Facey was charged that,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, November 25. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Drunkenness

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

James Turner, 49, labourer, was fined £1, in default fourteen days' imprisonment, for drunkenness…

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Police Not Arming. Sydney

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

Mr. Wood, the Chief Secretary, replying to Mr. Davidson, in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon, stated that there was no truth in a report published in the…

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Indian Sedition. High Court's Clemency. Sentences Commuted. London

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

The High Court of Calcutta has reduced the sentence of death passed upon Baren Ghose and Dutt, who were found guilty in May last in connection…

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The Christchurch Murder Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 November 1909 · page 13

The trial of the young man Arthur John Wilson Roberts, who shot a girl named Alice Edith Newman dead in a Christ-church restaurant recently, has been…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, November 26. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 November 1909 · page 2

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, in default, imprisonment until the rising of the court. Charles Borrowman, 41, and James…

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Case of R. D. Meagher. High Court Judgement. Appeal Sustained. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 November 1909 · page 7

The High Court of Australia, sitting at Darlinghurst to-day, delivered its decision in the case of Richard Denis Meagher, against whose reinstatement…

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Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 November 1909 · page 6

At the West Maitland Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. J. M’Kensey, P.M., Sylvester Lynham was charged with having, at West Maitland, on the 26th…

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