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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1909

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M., and Mr. F. G. Adrian, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 December 1909 · page 7

Walter Donnelly was granted a renewal of the license of the Toronto Hotel, Toronto, and of the billiard license. Renewals of billiard licenses…

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Alleged Conspiracy. at the Police Court. Crown Case Continued

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 2

The charge of conspiracy against Messrs. Peter Bowling, William Brennan, Albert Burns, Amram Lewis, and Andrew Gray was further proceeded with at the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 17. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, D.S.M.) Seaman's Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 10

John David Horne (44), steward, was charged with wilful disobedience of lawful commands given by John Richard Campbell, master of the vessel Earl…

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Outrage Near Adelaide. Encounter with Police. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 December 1909 · page 5

Following upon the recent attempted bank robbery at Glenelg, another sensational outrage occurred on Saturday night. Mr. J. G. O' Danieis, a grocer, of…

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Alleged Conspiracy. at the Police Court. Crown Case Continued

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 December 1909 · page 5

The charge of conspiracy against Messrs. Peter Bowling, William Brennan, Albert Burns, Amram Lewis, and Andrew Gray was further proceeded with at the…

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Summons Division. Fined for Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 December 1909 · page 3

Rose Boswell pleaded guilty to assaulting Hannah Jane Roberts, at Carrington, and was fined 10s, with £1 10s costs, in default seven days' imprisonment. Mr…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, December 20. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 December 1909 · page 3

Six first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default five, minutes' imprisonment, and one of them, Alexander M'Donald (34),…

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Sentenced to Death. Guilty of Wife Murder. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 December 1909 · page 4

At the Central Criminal Court to-day, before Mr. Acting Justice Docker, a labourer named Alfred George Selby appeared for trial on a charge of having murder…

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Alleged Conspiracy. at the Police Court. Crown Case Continued

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 December 1909 · page 5

The charge of conspiracy against Messrs. Peter Bowling, William Brennan, Albert Burns, Amram Lewis, and Andrew Gray, was further proceeded with at the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, December 21. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 December 1909 · page 7

James Kohler, 50, seaman, and Laurence Oldham, 61, labourer, were each fined 5s, in default, 24 hours imprisonment, for drunkenness…

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Industrial Court Cases. Postponement Granted. One Case Withdrawn

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 December 1909 · page 6

The Industrial Court sat at Newcastle yesterday morning to hear the matter of the informations laid against fifteen members of the Colliery Employees' Federation,…

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Alleged Conspiracy. at the Police Court. Crown Case Continued

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 December 1909 · page 5

The charge of conspiracy against Messrs. Peter Bowling, William Brennan, Albert Burns, Amram Lewis, and Andrew Gray, was further proceeded with…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 22nd. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, D.S.M.) Riotous Behaviour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 December 1909 · page 7

William Fitzgerald (28), seaman, and Michael Cullen (49), labourer, were each fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment, for riotous behaviour…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 6

Mr. J. M'Kensey, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Joseph Wilks was charged with having…

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Alleged Conspiracy. at the Police Court. Defendants Committed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 4

The charge of conspiracy against Messrs. Peter Bowling, William Brennan, Albert Burns, Amram Lewis, and Andrew Gray, was rurther proceeded with at the…

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Attempted Murder. Roumanian Prime Minister. Seriously Wounded. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 5

A workman yesterday fired three shots at M. Brantiano, the Roumanian Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, and Minister for Foreign Affairs…

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Murder in Seoul. Premier of Korea. Fatally Stabbed. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 5

Reuter's correspondent in Seoul states that Yi Wan Yon, the Korean Premier, has been fatally stabbed. The assassination was a political…

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Wave of Assassination. an Indian Victim. Murder of a British Judge. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 5

A member of the Indian Civil Ser vice has been assassinated in the Bombay Presidency. The victim was Mr. A. Jackson, the…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 7

Verdicts for the amounts claimed were given, with costs, in the following cases: —John O'Grady, Ltd. v.—Hale, of Wickham, £3 6s 9d, for goods sold; W…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 24th. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 3

Four first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default imprisonment for five minutes, and another, charged with being drunk on the…

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