Bloomsbury Murder. Negress Remanded. London
The negroes, who was arrested for murder of an English actress named Jessie Mackintosh, at the close of a convivial party at Bloomsbury, is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1912
935 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 43 of 47
Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, December 3. (Before Mr. T. C. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness
One first offender, for drunkenness, was fined 5s, in default, imprisonment till the rising of the Court. Remanded…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Charlestown Police Court. Tuesday, December 3. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)
Robert Horne, inspector under the Pure Food Act, proceeded against William Iles, dairyman, of Dudley, for selling adultered milk, to wit, an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, December 4. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)
One first offender was fined 2s 6d or five minutes detention for being drunk. William Milham was charged under the Pure Food Act, with having at Hexham, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 4. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
A first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s, in default imprisonment until the rising of the Court, Moses Reece (25) seaman was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Moon Island Collision. Marine Court Inquiry. Sydney
The collision which occurred off Moon Island on the evening of September 14th, between the schooner Zingara and the Howard Smith steamer Cycle, formed the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District. Police Court
Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the Bench of the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morning. William Walsh pleaded guilty to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Letters to the Editor. Fruit Stealing
Sir,—In Wednesday's issue a report is published of extensive fruit stealing near Lithgow, where one thief has been shot and another caught in a man-trap. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Small Debts Court
Lee and Company against L. M'Guinness, for the sum of £5 10s 9d for goods sold. Plaintiff said that 10s had been paid since the summons was issued. A…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, December 5. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunk and Disorderly
Henry Shoesmith (37), labourer, was fined £2, with the alternative of 21 days' imprisonment, for being drunk and disorderly in Scott-street…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, chairman, and H. M. Shedden, L.Ms.)
Music permits were granted it. T. Martin, of the Miners' Arms Hotel, Young Wallsend, and George Smith, of the Commercial Hotel, Lambton, A…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 6. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Two first offenders were each fined 5s, with the alternative of detention for five minutes for drunkenness. Seamen's Cases…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, December 7. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness
Three first offenders were each fined 5s, or five minutes' detention, and John Gibbard was fined 10s with the alternative of three days, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murder in Paris. Amazing Torture. Victims Taunted. Paris
A murder was committed in the house of M. and Mdme. Ducret, in Paris, by a man named Lacombe. Prior to shooting at the couple,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder of a Girl. Strangled in London. London
A respectably-dressed man enticed Winnie Baker, aged 12, a girl scout, from drill and mission hall in Woking, and they both disappeared…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Sydney Letter. a Plague of Flies.—that Government House Injunction.—giving the Balance Sheet.—mr. Franki and the Newcastle Dock.—military "Police" for the Cadets.—the Doctors and the Maternity Allowance. Sydney
"Swat that fly," It is an Americanism, and has caught on Perhaps the fly got to hear about it. Anyhow it is long since the files were so bad. Suburban kitchens…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court
Messrs. C. H. Gale, P.M., and J. Rourke and J. Pender, Js.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Assault on Adrianople. Constantinople
The Vail of Adrianople reports that a general assault took place on the night of December 4th. The garrison repulsed the enemy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Military Police
The initiation of a system of compulsory training for defence purposes in Australia necessitated the creation of machinery to put the principle into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wallsend Police Court. Monday, December 9. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.)
Charles Anderson, acting as agent for Mrs. Miller, proceeded against Mrs. Powitt for illegally removing furniture from a rented house, the properly of Mrs. Miller,…
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