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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1913

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1913 · page 7

Four first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d. with the alternative of five minutes' detention. Joseph Danks (44), miner, was…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, April 28. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1913 · page 3

In the charge division James Briggs, who pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, was fined 20s, or seven days. In the summons division, one-first…

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The Railway Trouble. Industrial Court Cases. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1913 · page 6

The cases arising out of the prosecutions in connection with the recent railway strike were brought before Mr. Justice Heydon in the Industrial Court…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, April 29. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1913 · page 3

Oliver Leneghan (48), miner, pleaded guilty to being drunk, and to using improper language at Denison-street, Hamilton, As a first offender he was…

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Attempted Murder. Suicide of Assailant. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1913 · page 4

A case of attempted murder and suicide was reported to the Ashfield police to-night. Murac Alvian, 25 years of age, a…

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Murder in Hanoi. French Officers Killed. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1913 · page 5

An Annamese threw a bomb into a crowded cafe at Hanoi, in the French possession of Toukin, killing Majors Abatius and Mongrent, and wounding…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, April 30. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1913 · page 7

Two first offenders for drunkenness were fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. Alexander Smith (38), seaman, was charged with being…

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The Suffragettes. a Police Raid. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1913 · page 5

The police this morning raided the headquarters of the Women's Political Union, in Kingsway. Several arrests were effected…

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Murder in New York. Suspected Informer Shot. New York

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1913 · page 5

Jerry Maida, a man who was suspected of aiding the Attorney-General, who is investigating alleged cases of police graft, was shot dead in the…

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Alleged Stealing. Tamworth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 5

A young man named Pike, a resident of Newcastle, was arrested here this afternoon, after an exciting chase by Senior-constable Doran and Constable Donald,…

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Industrial Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 5

Mr. C. Hibble, Industrial Magistrate, continued his sitting at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday. IRONWORKERS' AWARD…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, May 1. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 2

Two first offenders were each fined 2s 6d, or detention for live minutes, for drunkenness. For riotous behaviour in Scott-street, Patrick Allen and James…

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, May 1. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell. S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 3

A first offender was fined 5s, or detention until the rising of the Court, for being drunks. Mary Ann Sherwood was fined £1, with…

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The Suffragettes. a Police Raid. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 5

A number of police raided the head, quarters of the Women's Political Union, in Kingsway, yesterday, and arrested five of the officials…

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Charges of "Graft." Against New York Police. New York

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 5

Four police officers, who are accused of "graft," have been placed on trial before the Supreme Court, The charges preferred against them…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 2

Judgment for the plaintiffs for the amounts stated was given in the following cases:—R. Hall and Son v. the Williams River Co-operative Company, £6 [?]13s…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian and T. C. K. M'Kell, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 2

Music permits were granted to the following:— R. W. Penman, Colliery Inn, Wallsend; John Rowan, Rawson Hotel, Newcastle; James Joseph Fitzpatrick,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, May 2. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1913 · page 7

John Francis O'Callaghan (37), labourer, for being drunk in Hunter-street, was fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment, William Wilson (38), labourer,…

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Alleged Murder. Charge Against a Woman. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1913 · page 5

The inquest on Bernard Hall, a well-known boxer and aviator, who was shot last month in a flat at Shaftesbury Avenue by Jeanno Baxter, in whose…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, May 3. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Remanded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1913 · page 7

Arthur Ernest Broadbent (32), machinist, was charged with maliciously wounding one George Meletios, at Newcastle, on May 2. Accuned was remanded…

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