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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

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Scene in a Court. Violent Crown Prosecutor. Indianapolis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1911 · page 5

A riotous scene has occurred in Court, arising out of the investigations into dynamite outrages. Mr. Baker, the Crown Prosecutor,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1911 · page 3

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

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M., and Dr. John Harris, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1911 · page 3

Music permits were granted to Donald M'Lean, Oriental Hotel, Carrington, for December 26th, and Luke Wild, Cambridge Hotel, Hamilton, for to-morrow night…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 22. (Before Mr. J. M'Kensey, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1911 · page 2

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. Edward Cunningham (53) and…

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Scenes in a Court. a Prosecutor Fined. Indianapolis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1911 · page 5

In connection with the riotous scene which occurred in the Court during the Investigation of recent dynamite outrages, the County Prosecutor, Mr…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, December 23. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Improper Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 December 1911 · page 3

Frederick White ([?]2), was fined 10s. in default three days' imprisonment, for using improper language. Case Withdrawn…

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Murder at Ipswich. a Young Girl the Victim. Ipswich

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 December 1911 · page 4

A girl named Annie Holzworth, a servant at Mrs. Habermann's boarding-house in Brisbane-street, was found dead on the verandah yesterday morning with…

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Alleged Serious Assault. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 December 1911 · page 5

Ethel, Quinn, a young woman, living in Lower Campbell-street, Surry Hills, was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital to-night suffering from a fractured skull. It…

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The Ipswich Murder. Burial of the Victim. Ipswich

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 December 1911 · page 4

The funeral of the girl Annie Holzwart, who was murdered in a boardinghouse in Brisbane-street on Saturday morning, took place yesterday at Wallcon…

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Police Officer Shot Dead. a Man Arrested. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 December 1911 · page 5

Intelligence was received in Sydney to-night from Warren that Sergeant Macdonnell, while arresting a foreigner in the street for using offensive language, at…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, December 27. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 December 1911 · page 3

A first offender was fined 3s 6d, in default, five minutes' detention, for drunkenness. George Mason, for being found drunk on the 23rd instant, was fined 5s,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 December 1911 · page 3

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court, and a fourth 5s, in default 24…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 December 1911 · page 6

At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, P.m., Edward Doherty was charged with having, at West Maitland, on the 25th…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, December 28. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 December 1911 · page 3

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness were each fined 2s 6d, in default imprisonment for five minutes. John Halles, 60, miner was fined £1, in default,…

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Murder in Whitechapel. Man and Woman Killed. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 December 1911 · page 5

A man named Milistein and his wife, who were restaurant keepers, were found dead in a house in Hanbury-street, Whitechapel, having been…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 December 1911 · page 3

Verdicts for the amounts claimed were given with costs in the following cases: Mary Williams, trading as J. Williams v James Dean, of Weston £2 10s,…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M., and Dr. John Harris, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 December 1911 · page 3

Renewals of publican's licences were granted to D. M"Lean, Oriental Hotel, Carrington, and T. Simmonds, Donnie Doon Hotel, Miami. Renewals of billiard…

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Attempted Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 December 1911 · page 2

Christchurch has just furnished another sensation. A man named James Gibbons, who was a lodger in the house of a married woman named Mrs. Eliza M'Kenzie,…

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Russian Secret Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 December 1911 · page 9

Of all my experiences in the Russian Secret Service I recall no more interesting case than my adventure with Dmitry Bogroff, the revolutionist who…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 29. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Seamen's Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 December 1911 · page 7

Robert Ferguson (36), cook, charged with being absent without leave from the vessel Marechal de Gontaut, was ordered to be placed on board…

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