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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

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Newcastle District Court. (Before Judge Fitzhardinge.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 November 1911 · page 7

The Newcastle District Court sat again yesterday. MOTOR CAR AND BICYCLE. The hearing was concluded of the case…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, November 23. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 7

Michael Keogh (32), seaman, was fined 5s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness. Percy Collier (26), watchman, was fined £1, in default seven days'…

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The Glebe Murder. Remanded to Sydney. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 5

Campbell Nairn Moir was brought before Mr. Tanner, P.M., at the Melbourne City Police Court, this morning, on the charge of the murder of Henry…

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The Suffragettes. at Bow-street Court. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 5

The Bow-street Police Court was crowded with fashionable people yesterday, when the suffragettes who had been charged with various offences…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 7

Re Lachlan M'Kechnie, of Barraba.—The public examination was further adjourned for a fortnight…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 7

A verdict was given for the amount claimed, with costs, in the case J. Cotterill v. Mrs. E. Balfour, of Islington, £7 11s 11d, for goods sold…

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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 24 November 1911 · page 7

An application by Bernard Heydon, Royal Hotel, Stockton, to make alterations to the premises, was granted. Colleges have sprung up like mushrooms…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 November 1911 · page 6

Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, P.M., occupied the Bench at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday morning. Alexander Durie, William Edward…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, November 24. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 November 1911 · page 9

Four men who wore before the court for the first time on charges of drunkenness were each fined 2s 6d, in default to be imprisoned for five minutes. Patrick…

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Piracy in China. Murder and Robbery. Hongkong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 November 1911 · page 5

Pirates in the West River looted the British steamer Shinon, and killed the chief officer, Mr. Nicholson. They then boarded a Chinese…

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The Glebe Murder. Inquest on Thursday. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 November 1911 · page 4

A telegram was this morning received in Sydney from Inspector Childs, who is in Melbourne, stating thot, with Detective Walker and Campbell Moir, the…

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Court of Marine Inquiry. the Port Stephens Stranding. Before Judge Fitzhardinge (president) and Captain J. B. Carpenter and Cap D. Dakin (assessors.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 November 1911 · page 4

The Court of Marine Inquiry sat at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday. An inquiry was held into the stranding of the steamer Port Stephens, which…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, November 25. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 November 1911 · page 7

One first offender, for having been drunk, was fined 2s 6d, or five minutes. Patrick Koogh (32), seaman, was fined 10s, or three days, and Samuel Hill (52),…

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Wholesale Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 November 1911 · page 5

Crimes such as that which was committed at Alligator Creek, about twenty miles from Mackay, on the 17th instant, when a woman and her five children…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, November 27. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 November 1911 · page 3

Albert Young, licensee of the Terminus Hotel, Wallsend, was charged with permitting Thomas Coates to remain upon his licensed promises on Sunday, 19th…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, November 27. (Before Mr. J. M'Kensey, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 November 1911 · page 7

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default, imprisonment until the rising of the court. William Bond, 47, an…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 November 1911 · page 6

Superintendent Saunders retired from the command of the north-eastern police district yesterday, prior to his departure for Goulburn. At a parade of the East…

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Stealing in a Dwelling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 November 1911 · page 11

Robert Novin was arraigned of an indictment charging him with stealing in the dwelling-house of Thomas Joseph Burke at Newcastle on November 14th, a…

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Improper Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 November 1911 · page 2

Albert James Sternbeck, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of improper assault, was brought up for sentence. Mr. T. A. Braye (Messrs. Brayo and Cohen)…

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Convicted of Common Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 November 1911 · page 2

Albert William Cavan and Charles Powell were arraigned on an indictment charging them with assaulting Robert Thomas Elliott, at Cessnock, on October…

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