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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, January 7. (Before Mr. H. H. Chippindall, J.P.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 January 1911 · page 7

A first offender, charged with drunkenness was fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. John O'Hare (57), labourer, was fined 10s, in…

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A Jewish Murder. Tragedy in Paris Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 January 1911 · page 5

Two Russian Jews brothers, named Kroschenalisch, shot a Jewish tailor in a courtyard, and with the assistance of another Jew named…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1911 · page 6

Mr. J. M'Kensey, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morning. Daniel Murphy, a farmer, for having used…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, January 9. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1911 · page 6

Patrick Callaghan, who pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk, was fined 20s, or seven days. Walter Gough, similarly charged, pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 9. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1911 · page 7

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. Alice Callnghen, 26, married, was fined…

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The Clapham Murder. an Arrest Effected. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1911 · page 5

The police have been searching, for the murderer of M. Beron, the Jew miser, who was murdered on Clapham Common. The desperado, the initial…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 January 1911 · page 5

Detective Allchurch is still inquiring into the circumstance connected with the discovery of an alleged sheep-stealer's lair at Tantanoola…

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Victorian Police. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 January 1911 · page 5

The Chief Police Commissioner was interviewed to-day as to the alleged dissatisfaction among members of the force, and as to the report of men leaving…

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America's Murder Roll. Appalling List. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 January 1911 · page 5

During the year just closed 8000 murders were committed in the United States. The lives of most of the murderers…

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Clapham Murder. the Arrested Man. a Native of Sydney. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 January 1911 · page 5

The man who was arrested in a restaurant, near Sidney-street, and described as an actor, gave his name as Steiner Morrison…

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Murder in Austria. Vienna

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1911 · page 5

In pursuance of a threat to dynamite the butchers at Stanlslau, Gallcia, unless they sold fresh meat, a butcher was fatally injured by an…

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Escape From Gaol. Darlinghurst Walls Scaled. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1911 · page 5

Considerable excitement was caused this afternoon, when it because known that two prisoners continued in Darlinghurst Gaol, had escaped by scaling one…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, January 11. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1911 · page 3

A first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. Remands…

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, January 13. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 3

J. H. Hardcastle was charged with being drunk and using improper language. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £1, or one week's imprisonment for being…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, January 12. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 7

Thomas Shephard (30), miner, was fined 5s, in default 24 hours' Imprisonment, for drunkenness, and £1, in default fourteen days' Imprisonment, for using profane…

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Murder in Church. Mother Kills Her Son. Rome

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 5

A woman named Serafina Donato murdered her son with a chopper while in church at Senercha, near Avellino, in Italy, believing that he…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 3

Henry Smith, miner, of Dickson-street, Lambton, was examined relatiye to his bankruptcy, and stated that he had never been bankrupt before. He…

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Berlin Riots. Sentences on Accused. Police Exceeded Their Duty. Berlin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 5

Thirty-five of the rioters in the Moabit quarter of Berlin have been dealt with by the Court. One was sentenced to three and…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 7

Verdicts were given for the amounts claimed, with costs, in the following cases:—Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board v. Charles…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. T. H. Wilkinson and F. G. Adrian, S.Ms., and Dr. John Harris, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 7

A music permit was granted to William Fox. Swansea Hotel, Swansea, for to-night. R. Brownlee, Killingworth, was granted a billiard license. Renewals of…

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