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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1912

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, May 16. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 May 1912 · page 7

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default, imprisonment for five minutes…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 May 1912 · page 7

Verdicts for the amounts claimed were given with costs in the following cases: H. Hansen v. Otto Herbert, 17s 8d, for goods sold; Nicholas Bear v. T. Hughes,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, May 17. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 7

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s, 6d, in default imprisonment for five minutes. Magnus Cromarty, seaman, and Allea…

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O'brien-doran Fight. Police Court Aftermath. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 May 1912 · page 5

At the City Sourt yesterday, Alfred Griffiths was charged with larceny as a bailee of £20, the property of John O'Brien, of Newcastle. The latter was…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, May 18. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 May 1912 · page 7

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default imprisonment for five minutes. Gustav Karlsen, seaman, was fined £1, in…

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Clergyman Executed. Confesses to Murder. Boston

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 May 1912 · page 5

Richeson, the clergyman who was found guilty by a lower court of the murder of his sweetheart, Avis Linacll, in order that he might marry a…

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The Motor Car Bandits. French Police Ridiculed. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 May 1912 · page 5

All the newspapers severely condemn and ridicule the Nogent-sur-Marne siege where two motor bandits, Earmer and Vallot, were held up by…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 May 1912 · page 6

Messrs. T. C. K. M'Kell, P.M., and John Pender, J.P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morning…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, May 20. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 May 1912 · page 7

Michael Crowe for having behaved in an improper manner at Cardiff, was fined 10s, of 24 hours' imprisonment. In the summons division the adjourned…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, May 20. (Before Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 May 1912 · page 3

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 1s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. James Henwood and Karl…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, May 21. (Before Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge, D.S.M) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 May 1912 · page 2

A first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 1s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court, James Murdoch, labourer, and Alexander…

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Armed Burglar Story. Police Discredit It. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 May 1912 · page 4

From an early hour this morning Superintendent Roche, head of the criminal investigation branch of the Police Department, and several detectives, were…

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Charlestown Police Court. Tuesday, May 21

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 May 1912 · page 6

John Marks and Albert Johnson, for having undersized fish in their possession at Toronto, were fined, the former 20s, costs 6s, and the latter 10s, costs 6s…

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Police! North Sydney's Call. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 May 1912 · page 5

From the suburbs on the northern side of the harbour there comes an insistent demand for better police protection. At Mosman there are on an average…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, May 22. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 May 1912 · page 7

In the case from Wallsend Court, police v. Albert Young, on a charge of supplying liquor on Sunday, 21st April, the magistrate said there was a certain…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, May 22. (Before Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge, D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 May 1912 · page 7

A first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 1s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. Hugh Leggatt (48), labourer, and Bertha…

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Killed in His Tent. Persian Police Chief. Teheran

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 May 1912 · page 5

Yephrem Khan, the famour Armenian Chief of the Persian Police, who had been conducting a campaign against Salar-Ed-Dowlah, was found…

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Suffragette Rioters. to Gaol for Nine Months. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 5

The trial at the Old Bailey of Mrs. Pankhurst and Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence on a charge of conspiracy in connection with the suffragette riot…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, May 23. (Before Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 3

Six first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 1s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. Ninian Stephenson, painter, was…

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A San Francisco Crime. New South Wales Police Warned. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 5

The Inspector-General of Police (Mr. Day) has received a communication from the Chief Commissioner of Police of San Francisco, stating that on March…

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