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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 6

Messrs. J. M'Kensey and E. Bowden, I.Ms., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Licensing Court yesterday. The license of the Federal Hotel,…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, January 23. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 3

Patrick Callaghan was charged with, that, being a person prohibited from being supplied with liquor, he was found in the bar of the Queen's Head Hotel,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 3

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. Charles Antonio Linftrum…

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Egyptian Sedition. a Leader Sentenced. Cairo

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 5

Mahomed Bey Farid, the leader of the Egyptian Nationalist party, was yesterday sentenced to six months' imprisonment for having written the…

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Houndsditch Affray. Murder of Policemen. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 5

The remains of Fritz and Joseph, the Russian Anarchists who were killed at 100 Sidney-street, Mile End, were interred in unconsecrated ground…

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Murder by Boys. Sentenced to Death. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 5

The two boys, Tissier and Demarest, aged 16 and 17 years respectively, have been sentenced to death for murdering a bank manager in Paris…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, January 25. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 7

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. Lily Watson (20), was sentenced…

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The Clapham Murder. Evidence Against Accused. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 5

The trial of Sidney Morrison, who is charged with the murder of a Jew named Boron on Clapham Common was continued at the police court…

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A Wronged Husband. Acquitted of Murder. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 January 1911 · page 5

The Italian Facenda, who shot his wife's lover in Paris in September last, killing him, has been acquitted. Facenda was a resident of Glasgow,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, January 27. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 2

A first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s, in default, imprisonment until the rising of the court. Patrick John M'Ardle, 41, baker, was fined…

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A Popular Police Officer. Presentation to Mr. Goulder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 4

Inspector G. E. Goulder left Newcastle for Sydney yesterday afternoon by the three o'clock train to take up his new duties as inspector in charge of No. 1…

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The Industrial Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 4

The appointment of Judge Scholes as Deputy Judge of the Industrial Court is a step in the right direction. The work has proved too great for…

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Acquitted of Murder. a Belgian Officer. Brussels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 5

The Appeal Court at Boma, the capital of the Belgian Congo, has acquitted Major Arnold, who was convicted of Murder in 1909…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, January 30. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 7

John Gilbert Reay was charged with having stolen a pair of boots, valued at 10s 6d, the property of David Porteus, John James Clark, police constable,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 30. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 3

Joseph Toomey, 36, plumber, was fined 10s, in default, 24 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness. Joseph Beckett, 45, miner, was fined 10s, in default, three…

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Mutinous Sailors. Murder Their Officers. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 5

Mutinous sallors on the dredge Irene Ruth ran amek on board the vessel when in Colonial Beach Harbour, virginia, and the captain and mate were…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 6

Mr. J. M'Kensey, P.M., occupled the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. William Walter Carroll was charged…

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The Clapham Murder. Verdict Against Morrison. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 5

The inquest upon the body of Boron, the miser, who was found murdered on Clapham Common on Sunday, January 1st, was concluded…

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The Carlisle Murder. Acquittal of the Son. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 5

At the Cumberland Assizes, at Carlisle, yesterday, Archibald Norval, of Sheffield-street, Carlisle, charged with the murder of his father, Mr…

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West Wallsend Police Court. Wednesday, February 1. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 February 1911 · page 6

William Lawson, manager of the Seaham Colliery No. 2, proceeded against James Lennox, John Robson, and John Cockburn for a breach of the Coal Mines…

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