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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1910

1,022 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 52

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 February 1910 · page 7

Fredrick Hawley v. Mrs. Sarah Bowling, wife of Edward Bowling, late of Lambton, and at present residing at Aberdeen. This was a claim for £4 3s,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, February 11. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 7

One first offender for drunkenness was fined 2s 6d, in default, five-minutes' imprisonment. Lena Bertha Augusta Hanlon, for using improper language at…

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Russian Police Methods. Trumped-up Charges. to Secure Promotion. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 5

M. Lagovsky, a police inspector at Lubny, Russia, has been sentenced to, [?]our Years' imprisonment. It was proved that he had concocted…

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Warden's Court. Saturday, February 12. (Before Mr. J. M'Kensey, Warden.) Mining Lease

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 5

Francis Henry Jeffries applied for a special lease of 5 acres 2 roods of land at Belmont for the construction of a wharf and coal depot…

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Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 6

Mr. J. M'Kensey, P.M. occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. The following dairymen were each fined…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, February 14. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 7

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court, and another, George Thomas Gill…

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Admiralty Secrets. a Draughtsman Charged. No Felonious Intent. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 5

At the Hampshire Assizes at Winchester on Saturday, Richard Sydney Knowlden, a naval draughtsman, was indicted for the theft of a wireless…

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Photographing a Murder. Prince Ito's Assassin. Taken in the Act. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 5

A Japanese photographer, who was cinematographing the reception of the late Prince Ito by the Russian Minister at Harbin, actually…

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The Chief Justice. Congratulations in Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 4

Dr. Cullen, the Chief Justice, took his seat on the Bench for the first time this morning, on the occasion of the opening of the first law term of the year…

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Sentenced to Death. an Adelaide Tragedy. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 5

John Robins, aged 44, was place on trial at the Criminal Court to-day charged with having, in Adelaide, on December 24th last, wilfully murdered…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, February 16. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 7

John M'Bride was charged by summons that he, not being a person duly authorised in writing by the Chief Commissioner for Railways, so to[?]o, did solicit…

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Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 7

Richard Farthing v. Fre[?]k. Herbert, goods sold, £3 0s 9d. Verdi[?]t for plaintiff, with costs. J. H. Anderton v. Edwa[?]d Wright,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 7

One first offender, for having been drunk, was fined 2s 6d, or the rising of the Court; Michael Blake (59), seamen, was fined 5s or 24 hours; Alfred Maher…

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Murder of Prince Ito. the Trial Concluded. Sentences of the Accused. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 5

The trial of the murderers of Prince [?]to, the Japanese Resident-General in Korea, has concluded. The actual murderer was sentenced…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1910 · page 6

Mr. J. M'Kensey, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. William Hill was fined 10s, in default seven days' imprisonment, for…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, February 17. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1910 · page 7

Three first offenders, charged with drunkerness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default, imprisonment until the rising of the Court. Lucy Crosscombe. 40, married,…

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Suppressing Socialism. Police Use Sabres. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1910 · page 5

The police at Neumunster, Holstein, used sharpened sabres to suppress Socialist demonstrations. Forty-five of the rioters were…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M., District Registrar.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1910 · page 7

Re Jane Anno Dawson, married, of Plattsburg. The single meeting of creditors lapsed, and the public examination was declared concluded. Bankrupt said…

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Sensation in Court. a Convict Shoots Himself. Lewis Davids' Desperate Act. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1910 · page 5

An intensely exciting scene took place at the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions to-day, when Lewis Edward Davids, on trial for theft and breaking out of a warehouse,…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Claim for Rent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1910 · page 7

Frederick Hawley, as agent for Thomas Smith, sued John Parolas, of Newcastle, claiming £1 17s for rent. Mr. C. W. Readett appeared for the defendant, who…

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