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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1912

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1912 · page 6

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

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Murder in Melbourne. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1912 · page 5

A man named Frederick Leopold Tullidge was found shot to-night at Jollment with two bullet wounds in the breast. Roland William Holt has been arrested…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 15. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1912 · page 7

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default, imprisonment for five minutes. James Brady, 22, labourer, was fined 10s,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, January 16. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1912 · page 2

A first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, in default imprisonment for five minutes. Mance Jones (45), married, and Henry Koker…

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The Newcastle Police. Statement by Mr. Flowers. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1912 · page 6

Mr. F. Flowers, the Acting Chief Secretary, was questioned this afternoon by a representative of the "Newcastle Morning Herald" concerning the matter…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, January 17. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1912 · page 7

George Shoesmith (37), labourer, and Mary Kelly (59), widow, were each fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment, for drunkenness…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1912 · page 6

Messrs. J. W. Birkenhead and C. Winkley, Js.P., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court, yesterday morning…

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Chinese Revolt. the Attempted Murder. Outrages in the Province. Murder of Children. Pekin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1912 · page 5

The man who threw a bomb at General Yuan Shih Kai is a native of Kweichau, 24 years of age. He declares that the assassination,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1912 · page 7

John Jacob Mitchell (53), engineer, was fined 5s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness May Heath (38), married, was fined 10s, in default three…

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A School Tragedy. Murder and Suicide. Vienna

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1912 · page 5

A schoolboy, aged 17, at a grammar school in Suchava fired four shots with a revolver at M. Mokranski, the mathematical master, fatally wounding him…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. J. M'Kensey, S.M., and Dr. John Harris, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1912 · page 7

An application by F. D'Archy, Speers' Point Hotel, to serve liquor in the parlour, was not granted. Transfers of publicaus' licenses were granted as…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, January 20. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1912 · page 7

A first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, in default imprisonment for five minutes. Stephen Earl (56), miner, was fined £1, in default…

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Chinese Revolt. Court Refuses Money. Pekin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1912 · page 5

The Court has not produced the gold which it recently promised to General Yuan Shih Kat. The Manchus are unwilling to…

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Burglary in Berlin. Three Youths Arrested. Berlin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 5

Burglars broke into a jeweller's shop on Wednesday night and murdered the jeweller's wife and daughter, afterwards plundering the shop…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, January 22. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 6

When the summons case against William Wilson, charged with disobeying a magisterial order was called Senior-sergeant Fraser stated that part of the…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 7

A first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court, and two others John M'Lure (27), and Edward…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, January 23. (Before Mr. J. M'Kensey, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1912 · page 3

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court, Samuel Balls (36), fireman was…

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Bingara Murder. Victim's Husband Arrested. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1912 · page 5

William Frederick Ball, 23 years of age, a farmer, a native of England, was arrested to-night on a cargo steamer in Sydney Harbour, on a charge of having…

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New County Court Judge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1912 · page 3

Mr. Frederick Coleridge Mackarness, who has been appointed County Court judge on the Surrey and Sussex Circuit, was born in 1854, the son of the late…

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Alleged Murder. Starvation Sanatorium. Seattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1912 · page 5

The charge of murder by starvation of Miss Claire Williamson preferred against Dr. and Mrs. Hazard, the keepers of a sanatorium at Seattle, was…

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