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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1913

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, July 14. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 July 1913 · page 3

David Renfrew, miner, pleaded guilty to two charges of drunkenness, and was fined 20s, with costs 6s, or seven days, in each case…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, July 14. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 July 1913 · page 7

Three first offenders were each fined 5s, or imprisonment until the rising of the court, for drunkenness. William Houry Clough (37), a miner, and Frederick Thornton (35), a…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, July 15. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 July 1913 · page 3

Two men, who pleaded guilty to drunkenness, were treated as first offenders, being fined 5s, or imprisonment until the rising of the Court. Frederick Thornton…

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Charge of Murder. Husband Acquitted. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 July 1913 · page 4

George Samuel Capeness was placed on trial in the Criminal Court this morning on a charge of the wilful murder of his wife, Ceila Evelyn Capeness. The…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, July 15. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 July 1913 · page 2

One first offender was fined 5s, with the alternative of five minutes' detention, for drunkenness. Charge Withdrawn…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 July 1913 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morning. Arthur Wilson was charged with having,…

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Charged with Stabbing. Chinese Acquitted. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 July 1913 · page 5

Ah Sick appeared in the duck of the Quarter Sessions, to-day, before His Honor Judge Docker and a jury, to answer a charge of having, on May 17, 1913, at…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, July 17. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 July 1913 · page 7

James Simpson (36) a seaman, was fined 10s, in default three days' Imprisonment, for having been drunk in Bolton-street. Two others were dealt with an…

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Small Debts Court. Judgment Entered

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 July 1913 · page 7

A verdict, with costs of court, was given for the amount claimed in each of the following cases:—R. T. Rundle against C. Patmore, goods sold and…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 July 1913 · page 7

An application for the transfer of the publican's license for the Royal Hotel, Waratah from John Davis Cronin to Herbert John Peters, was granted…

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London Chief Magistrate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 July 1913 · page 13

Sir John Dickinson, who has been knighted on his appointment as Chief Magistrate for the London police courts in succession to the late Sir Henry…

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Police Fiasco

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 July 1913 · page 2

An altogether unnecessary demonstration appears to have been made by the authorities in connection with the prosecution of waiters employed at two…

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Conspiracy to Murder. Heavy Sentences. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 July 1913 · page 5

Clarence Maud Cowell and [?] Louisa Barry, the two young women who pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder Florence may King at Ascot Vale, were to-day…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, July 18. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 July 1913 · page 3

Three first offenders were each fined 5s, with the alternative of five minutes detention, for drunkenness, and Andrew Johns (46), seaman, was fined 10s, with…

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Alleged Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 July 1913 · page 6

Eugene Waldemar Schubert; a labourer, employed on the railway works at East Maitland, reported to the police on Friday night that he was waylaid and…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, July 19. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 July 1913 · page 7

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. Thomas Woods (50), horse-trainer, was fined 10s,…

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Boy Police Force

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 July 1913 · page 10

A boy police force is to instituted at Portland, Oregon it is proposed to have a boy chief of police, with captains sergeants, and other officials. They will…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, July 21. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 July 1913 · page 11

George Stone, Inspector to the Plattsburg Council proceeded against Herbert James for having committed a breach of the vehicular regulations, in not having…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, July 21. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 July 1913 · page 3

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6[?], with the alternative of five minutes, detention, William Thompson (45), seaman, was…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, July 22. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 July 1913 · page 11

Four first offenders, for drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, or detention for five minutes John Petersen (52). a Norwegian seaman, made the mistake of…

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