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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

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West Australian Murder. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1911 · page 6

In the Criminal Court to-day, the case was concluded in which James Smith was charged with having, on June 14, neaK Kelierberrin wilfully murdered…

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Teralba Police Court. Tuesday, September 5. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1911 · page 3

Alexander Miller sued Thomas Hill for the recovery of the amount of £5 4s, being due for labour done in, the capacity of a quarryman at Warner's Bay…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, September 5. (Before Mr. J. M'Kensey, S.M.) Improper Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1911 · page 11

Jones Hughes (19), seaman, was fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment, for using improper language. No Prosecution…

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A French Murder. Alleged Confession. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1911 · page 5

The mystery surrounding the assassination of M. Guillotin, near Tours, has been dispelled by a statement made by Mile, Laudreau a friend of…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, September 6. (Before Mr. J. M'Kensey, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1911 · page 7

Edward O'Conner (43), seaman, was fined 5s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness. Ellen Quong Chong (50), widow, was fined £1, in…

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Kurri. Police Court. Wednesday, September 6. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Koll, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1911 · page 6

Several persons were fined 5s, with costs, for drunkenness, Frederick Baker was fiend 40s, with costs, for using improper language at Kurri on the 23th…

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Murder by Blacks. Droving Party Killed. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1911 · page 5

Thomas Cole and Pennyfather, who are bringing cattle from Kimberley, have Just reached Willuna, They report having found at well No…

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Murder and Suicide. Copying a Moving Picture. New York

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1911 · page 5

Seeing a father shoot his daughter in a moving picture film, a man named Richetti, living in the Italain quarter of the city, went home and…

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, September 7. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 September 1911 · page 3

James Mitchell pleaded guilty to a Charge of unlawfully assaulting his wife, on the 3rd September, and was fined £1, or seven days' imprisonment…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, September 7. (Before Mr. J. M'Kensey, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 September 1911 · page 2

A first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s, in default, imprisonment until the rising of the Court. No Prosecution…

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French Murder. Guilty Man Confesses. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 September 1911 · page 5

Paul Houssard, who has been arrested on the charge of having murdered M. Guillotin, near Tours, has written a letter to the examining…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. J. M'Kensey, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 September 1911 · page 2

Samuel Dark sued J. Lees, of Newcastle, for the recovery of £12 12s 2d, alleged to be balance due for fish supplied Mr. T. A. Braye (Messrs. Braye…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M., and Mr. J. M'Kensey, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 September 1911 · page 2

A transfer was granted of the license of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Carrington, from H. Davis to W. T. Roderick. Mr. W. H. Baker and Mr. H. M. Cohen…

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Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 September 1911 · page 15

I bid you, Conscience, tell me, If any sin there be In stealing from a robber Who boldly stole from me?…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, September 8. (Before Mr. J. M'Kensey, S.M.) Seamen's Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 September 1911 · page 7

George Hunter (39) and Richard James (37), stewards, charged with being absent without leave from the vessel Auchenblae, were each sentenced to fourteen…

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Murder of a Stewardess. Sentence of Death. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 September 1911 · page 5

The trial of Godhino, the Goanese steward charged with the murder of Miles Alice Browster, a stewardess on the R.M.S. China, was concluded at…

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The French Murder. Attempted Suicide. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 September 1911 · page 5

M. Houssard, who was arrested and charged with the murder of M. Guillotin near Tours, on the confession of a friend of the murdered man's wife has…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1911 · page 6

Before Messrs. T. C. K. M'Kell, P.M., and John' Pender, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morning, Robert Goodman was charged with…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, September 11. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1911 · page 7

Two first offenders for drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default five minutes' imprisonment. Stephen Earl, for being drunk, was fined 10s, in default…

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The Court Habit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 9

If everyone who heard a person speak an untruth in a county-court were to speak out, the court would be Babel all day…

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