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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1913

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Mining Matters. Pelaw-main Trouble. Application to the Court. an Injunction Granted. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 June 1913 · page 5

In the Industrial Court this afternoon, Mr. Kolynack (Instructed by Mr. A. P. Sparke, for Messrs. Sparke and Millard, Newcastle), made application to Judge…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, June 21. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 June 1913 · page 3

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. No Prosecution…

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Murder by a Negro. Hanged by a Mob. New York

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 June 1913 · page 5

Telegrams from Amerious, in the State of Georgia, report that a negro, William Redding, shot the police chief after being arrested…

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New London Chief Magistrate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 June 1913 · page 4

The Chief Magistrate of London in sucession to Sir Albert De Rutzen is Mr. Heary Curtis Bennett, who has occupied the post of metropolitan police…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 23. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 June 1913 · page 3

One first offender, charged with being drunk, was fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes detention. Thomas Woods (50), horse trainer, was fined £1,…

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The Turkish Murder. Sentences of Death. Constantinople

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 June 1913 · page 5

A court-martial has been held on the prisoners arrested in connection with the assassination of Mahmud Shefket Pasha, the Grand Vizier…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, June 24. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrain, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 June 1913 · page 3

Three first offenders were each fined 25 6d, in default, detention for five minutes, for drunkenness. Harold Ryan (20), a labourer, was fined 10s, or twenty-four…

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Industrial Court. Sitting in Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 June 1913 · page 6

Mr. C. Hibble, industrial magistrate, sat at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, when a number of alleged breaches of industrial awards were dealt with…

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Action for Damages. Alleged Assault Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 June 1913 · page 5

An action for damages for alleged assault arising out of an incident which was prominently mentioned in the M'Lean suit for the restitution of conjugal rights…

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Wimborne Murder. Barton Executed. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 June 1913 · page 5

William Burton, the gamekeeper who was sentenced to death for the murder of a farm servant named Winifred Mitchell, near Wimborne, in…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, June 25. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 June 1913 · page 7

Two men, charged with drunkenness, pleaded guilty and were treated as first offenders, each of them being fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five…

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Wreck of the Ellerslie. Marine Court Inquiry. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 June 1913 · page 5

The wreck of the steamer Ellerslie, at the Bellinger River on May 22, was inquired into by the Marine Court to-day. The court consisted of Judge Backhouse…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, June 26. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.). Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 7

One, first offender was fined 2s 6d. with the alternative of five minutes detention for drunkenness. Remanded…

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, June 26. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 3

A first offender was fined 5s, with 6s costs, for being drunk. Joseph Farish pleaded guilty to improper behaviour at Lambton, end we fined £1, with 6s costs,…

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A Lost Explorer, Suggestion of Murder. New York

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 5

Christian Loden, a Norwegian explorer, has started on a trip to North-eastern Canada to study the Eskimos. He asserts his intention of seeking…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 7

Edgar Smith, at the instance of Elizabeth Lento, judgment creditor, was examined with respect to his assets. Mr. T. A. Braye (Messrs. Braye and Cohen)…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M., District Registrar.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 7

In re George Stewart, Gosford-street, Hamilton, labourer. There wore no creditors present, and the single meeting was declared closed, At the public…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 7

Renewals of publicans' licenses were granted to John Sample, Lambton Arms Hotel. Lambton, and Theophilus Herbert Tresidder, Lord Cardigan Hotel,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, June 27. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1913 · page 9

One first offender was fined 2s, 6d, with the alternative of five minutes detention for drunkenness. Thomas James Allen, 50, bricklayer, pleaded gullty to having…

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Indian Murder Charge. Acquitted Men Retried. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1913 · page 5

In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. J. Macneill drew the attention of Mr. Montagu, the Parllamentary Under-secretary of State for India, to…

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