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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1913

1,070 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 54

Burglary in Nice. Jeweller's Safe Forced. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 July 1913 · page 5

M. Sezary, a jeweller in Nice, on opening his safe found that the bottom had been blown out and that jewels to the value of £10,000 had…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, July 30. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 July 1913 · page 3

Joseph Norgard was fined 20s, with costs 6s, or seven days' imprisonment, and Herbert Esliock 10s, with 6s cots, or three days, for allowing stock to stray…

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The Suffragettes. Holloway Disturbance. Attack on the Gaol. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 July 1913 · page 5

The sympathisers with the suffragettes in Holloway Gaol marched from a meeting in the East-end, armed with sticks and stones…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, July 30. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 July 1913 · page 2

Four first offenders were each fined 5s, with the alternative of five minutes' detention, for being drunk. Duncan M'Kay (30), cook, and Archibald Montgomery…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 August 1913 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morning. Augustus Bellamy, a cab-driver, was…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, July 31. Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 August 1913 · page 7

John Champion (56), labourer, was fined 10s, with the alternative of three days' imprisonment, for drunkenness. James Prentice (30), labourer, and Arto…

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Shocking Murder. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 August 1913 · page 5

A gang of "hooligans" was maltreating a man on the Hull docks yesterday when a dock labourer, named Hutchinson, intervened…

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Extraordinary Fraud. Three Girls Charged. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 August 1913 · page 5

Before Mr. Wilkinson, S.M., at the Water Police Court, to-day, Gladys Hyhes, 17 years of age, Flerence Sichel, 17, and Vera Houseman, 16—all…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 August 1913 · page 7

Verdicts for the plaintiffs, with costs, were given in the following cases—R. T. Rundle against R. Gale, £4 15s, for goods sold; R. T. Rundle against William…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 August 1913 · page 7

A billiard license wan granted to Norman Potter at Teralba. Renewals for publican's licenses were: Thomas Atkinson, of the Pac[?]c Hotel, Newcastle, and…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, August 1. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 August 1913 · page 7

Edith Stewart (60), a widow, pleaded guilty to having been drunk in Hunter-street on July 31, and was fined 10s, in default three days imprisonment…

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Smallpox Outbreak. Ten More Cases. a Patient in Gaol. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 August 1913 · page 4

Ten cases of smallpox were discovered in Sydney to-day. Two came from Newtown and one each from Waterloo, Erskinville, Hurstville, North Sydney,…

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The Michigan Strike. Affray with Police. Calumet (Michigan)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 August 1913 · page 5

The police have effected scores of arrests in connection with the strike disturbances. A mob attacked the police when they…

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West Australian Murder. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 August 1913 · page 5

Further particulars are to hand regarding the murder of Peter Frederick Hansen, farmer of Nardadine. The first news of the tragedy was…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, August 2. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 August 1913 · page 3

Two first offenders were each fined 5s, with the alternative of five minutes' detention, for drunkenness. Remanded…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, August 4. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 August 1913 · page 3

Five first offenders, charged with being drunk, were each fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. Alexander Morrison (39), carpenter, and…

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Woollahra Robberies. Two Young Men Sentenced. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1913 · page 4

The sensational robberies at Woolahra were revived at the Quarter Sessions this morning, ween Geofirey Roy Cox was brought before Judge Docker on three…

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Assistant Police Commissioner

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

Mr. Basil Thomson, who has been appointed Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, is a son of the late Archbishop of York. He was formerly in…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, August 5. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1913 · page 11

Two first offenders, for drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default five minutes' imprisonment. John Campion (56). labourer, was fined 5s, or…

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Crafts and Boards. Application to the Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1913 · page 5

In the Industrial Court to-day, Mr. Justice Holydon gave judgment on an application by the Electrolytic Refining and Smelting Company, for which a board was…

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