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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1913

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State Parliament. Legislative Council. Police Appeals Bill. Sydney

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

Sir FRANCIS SUTTOR, the President of the Legislative Council, took the chair at half-past four o'clock this afternoon. The Campbell's Artharsleigh…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 September 1913 · page 7

In the case of Fredcrick Hawley against Harriet Wade and John Henry Wade, in which plaintiff claimed £2 5s 6d, for money lent and interest due, a verdict was given…

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Federal Arbitration. Powers of the President. High Court Judgement. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 September 1913 · page 4

The High Court of Australia delivered reserved judgment to-day in the case of the Merchant Service Guild of Australia v. the Newcastle and Hunter River…

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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 5 September 1913 · page 7

Approval was given to Thomas Mordue to effect alterations to the Reservoir Hotel, Lambton. Renewals of publicans' licenses were granted to George Davidson,…

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The Lilydale Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 September 1913 · page 13

According to present appearances the police have come to a dead end in their efforts to clear up the mystery which surrounds the murder of the old recluse,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 September 1913 · page 2

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention in court. John Thomson (26), and John George…

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Superintendent Banks. the Police Farewell

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 September 1913 · page 2

The Newcastle Courthouse presented an animated scohe of quite a [?] enar-acter than ordinarily when yesterday afternoon fully 50 members of the…

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Maitland District. Maitland District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 September 1913 · page 6

The Maitland District Court business was resumed, before his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge, at the courthouse, East Maitland, yesterday morning…

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Engine-drivers' Cases. High Court Judgments. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 September 1913 · page 5

The High Court to-day delivered its reserved judgment in the special case stated by the President of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration…

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Trade Unions' Powers. High Court Judgement. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 September 1913 · page 5

Judgment was delivered in the High Court, this morning in the appeal of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers from a judgment of the Queensland Full Court…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, September 6. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 September 1913 · page 7

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. Hans Hansen, 24, seaman. Alfred Quinlan, 41,…

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Dublin Riots. Charges Against Police. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 September 1913 · page 5

At the inquest into the death of the man Nolan, who died from injuries received during the riots in Dublin, a verdict of "death from the blow of a…

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When Judges Differ. a High Court Breeze

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 September 1913 · page 7

At the conclusion of the reading of the judgments in the High Court on Friday in the proceedings between the Federated…

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Police Court Reference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 4

At the Newcastle Police Court yesterday morning, before the business was entered upon. Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, the presiding magistrate, made reference to…

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Daring Burglary. Police Just Too Late. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 4

Burglars broke into Mr. John [?] Glasgow Arma Hotel, at the corner of Harris and William Henry [?] Ultimon, carry this morning, and [?]…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morning. James Palmer, for having made use of…

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Church Workers in Court. a Magistrate's Rebuke. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 4

The behaviour of a lay preacher and a church worker, whose dispute concerning a lantern slide of the Lord's Prayer was taken into the North Sydney Police Court…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, September 8. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 6

Lucy Crosscombe, who pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness in Kemp-street, was fined 10s, with the alternative of three days imprisonment…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, September 8. (Before Mr. T. C. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 7

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, in default, imprisonment till the rising of the Court. William Traeey, 33 seaman, was fined 10s,…

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Tragedy at Tingha. Murder and Suicide. Armidale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 5

Word reached the Armidale police this morning that a terrible double tragedy bad occurred at Tingha. George Little and his wife, Edith Sarah…

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