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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1910

1,022 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 52

The Suffragettes. Militant Women. Another Police Case. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 June 1910 · page 5

The millient suffragettes are indignant at the decision of Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, regarding Mr. D. J. Shackleton's Suffragette Bill…

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Daring Robbery. Encounter with Police. the Thieves Captured. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 June 1910 · page 5

A daring case of murder and robbery is reported from the United States. Three Poles shot and killed a shoe…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 27. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1910 · page 7

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default, imprisonment for five minutes. Grace Scowley, 35, was fined 10s, in…

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Attempted Murder. a Governor Wounded. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1910 · page 5

An attempt was made to assassinate the Governor of Kharbin on Saturday. The Governor was wounded. His assaliant escaped…

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Gateshead Murder. Sentence of Death. Mercy Recommended. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1910 · page 5

At the assizes at Newcastle-on-Tyne yesterday Thomas Craig was found guilty of the murder of Thomas William Henderson, a glassblower, at…

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Wreck of the Minimbah. Marine Court Inquiry. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1910 · page 4

The wreek of the steamer Mialmbuh at the entrance to the Manning River on April 13th was the subject of inquiry at the Marine Court to-day, before Judge…

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Affray in Paris. Trade-unionist's Funeral. Charge by the Police. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1910 · page 5

A serious affray has taken place in Paris between trade-unionists and the police. Ten thousand trade-unionists…

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Teralba Police Court. Tuesday, June 28. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 3

Inspector Podmore, Lake Macquarie Shire, proceeded against Richard Williams, of West Wallsend, for driving after sunset without a light. Defendant was fined…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 7

Four first offenders, for having been drunk, were each fined 5s, or the rising of the Court. George Augustus Alderton (29), baker, was fined £1, or 14 cays,…

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Tragedy in Georgia. a Double Murder. Assassin Is Killed. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 5

A farmer at Ocilla, in Georgia, named Bostwick, who was about to be arrested on a charge of mindemeanour killed the chief of police, Mr…

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Lake Como Murder. Charlton in Collapse. Said to Be Insane. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 5

Porter Charlton, the murderer of his wife at Como, Italy, now in prison in New York is in a state of nervous collapse, jabbering, shaking, as though…

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Industrial Court. Colliery Workers' Award. Decision of the Judge. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 5

Judge Heydon, the President of the industrial Court, delivered judgment to-day in the matter of the application of Mr. Croft on behalf on the Colliery…

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Breaches of Awards. Settlements Out of Court. Condemned by Judge Heydon. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 6

In the Industrial Court, to-day, the President, Judge Heydon, made some comment on the practice to which attention was drawn in the Legislative…

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Industrial Court. Breaches of Award. Newcastle Council Fined. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 June 1910 · page 2

The case in the industrial—Court in which Henry Alfred Mitchell, general secretary of the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association of…

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The Great Fight. to Be the Last. State Police Assembling. Militia to Attend. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 June 1910 · page 5

Preparations for the coming contest at Rero between Johnson and Jeffries for the boxing championship of the world are now almost completed…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 6

Mr. J. M'Kensey, P.M, occupied the Bench at the West Maitlaud Police Court yesterday. "Alfred Parker was fined £2, with 6s…

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, June 30. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 3

Horace Grahame was charged with being drank. He pleaded guilty and was fined 5s, for 24 hours. Elizabeth James was charged with being drunk at Lambton on…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, June 30. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 7

Charles Wilson, for drunkenness, was fined 5s, in default imprisonment till the rising of the court. For a like offence, Thomas Prinniville was fined £2, in…

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Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 3

The Hunter District Water Supply Board summoned Stephen Orrel for the sum of £1, due as rates. Verdict for plaintiff, with 5s costs. Same v. Martin George…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, Deputy Registrar.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 7

Re George James Doohan.—Bankrupt, for whom Mr. C. W. Readett appeared, said he was a labourer, He attributed his bankruptcy to sickness and slackness of…

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