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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1912

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PERRY v. Willis. Settled Out of Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1912 · page 5

The action in which John Perry, M.P., an ex-Minister of the Crown, claimed £1000 compensation from Henry Willis, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, June 22. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 June 1912 · page 7

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. Thomas Prinniville (49),…

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Murder in Italy. a Man Drowned. Rome

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 June 1912 · page 5

A murder of an unusual kind has occurred in Italy. A man was bound to a wheelbarrow and burled into the sea at Savona and…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 24. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1912 · page 7

Five first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. One of them, John Webb…

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Portuguese Strikes. Attacks on Police. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1912 · page 5

Fifteen thousand cork workers and coopers have gone on strike. Many attacks were made on the Police, and one was shot dead…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, June 25. (Before Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 June 1912 · page 2

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 1s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. William Laidlaw (50) was fined £1, in…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, June 26. (Before Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge, D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 June 1912 · page 7

Four first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 1s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court. John M'Larty (40), labourer,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, June 27. (Before Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 June 1912 · page 7

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined is in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court Thomas Walker (54), miner,…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 June 1912 · page 7

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

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, June 28. (Before Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 June 1912 · page 9

Thomas Larson (47), seaman, was fined 5s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness. Thomas Olsen (24), seaman, was fined 5s, in default 24 hours'…

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Forty-seven Years in Gaol. a Brigand Pardoned. Rome

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 June 1912 · page 5

King Emanuel of Italy has pardoned a notorious brigand, who had served forty-seven years' imprisonment. He had been convicted of sixty-five…

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The Suffragettes. More Window Smashing. Attempted Assault. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 July 1912 · page 5

The suffragettes are continuing their acts of violence. Windows have been smashed in Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, June 29. (Before Mr. H. H. Chippindall, J.P.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 July 1912 · page 7

Four first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court, Daniel Sullivan (3s), labourer, Friederich…

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Our Sydney Letter. Frightening Capital Away.—"stealing" One's Own.—electricity for All.—the Federal Bank Sydney Office.—married "Men" of Fourteen.—a History of Australia. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 July 1912 · page 4

A good deal of publicity has been given to the alleged fact that some Australian investors of importance purpose putting fresh capital at their command in the…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, July 1. (Before Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1912 · page 3

In the Small Debts Court, Mr. Mart, representing the Hunter District Water Board, obtained a verdict against Thomas D. Ellas for 10s due for water rates, and…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, July 1. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1912 · page 3

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

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Trial for Murder. Twenty Years' Imprisonment. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1912 · page 5

The man Houssard, who was arrested last September on the charge of murdering M. Guillotin at Tour's, has been sentenced to twenty years'…

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(Before Mr. M. H. Fitzdardinge, D.S.M.) Charge of Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1912 · page 3

The hearing was resumed of the case in which Theodor Soederstrom (32), seaman, Was charged with assaulting Peter Popoff, at Stockton, on June 17th. At…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M., District Registrar.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1912 · page 3

Re John Daley, of Hamilton West, lahourer. The single meeting of eredltors lapsed, and the public examination was Declared concluded. Bankrupt attributed…

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A Gilded Sixpence. Youth Charged with Uttering. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 July 1912 · page 4

Louis Woolf, aged 19, was charged at Paddington Police Court this morning with having uttered a sixpence apparently intended to resemble a half-sovereign,…

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