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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1914

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, June 25. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 7

A first offender was fined 5s, or [?]tention until the rising of the court, for being drunk at New Lambton. Joseph Phippin proceeded against…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, June 26. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Minor Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 7

Mary Kelly (58), an old offender, pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and was fined 20s, with the alternative of three days' imprisonment. Portoghese…

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Industrial Court. Colliery Stoppages

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 7

Mr. Justice Edmunds again presided at the Industrial Court at the Newcastle Courthouse, yesterday. PELAW-MAIN CLIPPERS FINED…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 June 1914 · page 3

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes detention Archibald Montgomery, 65, labourer, was…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 29. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1914 · page 7

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, with the alternative of live minutes' imprisonment. Robert Anderson, 34, fireman,…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 July 1914 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Michael O'Keefe was charged with…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, June 30. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Minor Charges

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 July 1914 · page 7

Four persons, presented for the first time on charges of drunkenness, were each fined So, or detention until the rising of the court. In the case of a fifth, who…

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Sydney Suspects Charged. Further Remand Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1914 · page 5

The Eveleigh motor bandit case was again before the Central Police Court to-day, when Samuel Freeman, alias Henry Lewis, James M'Kay, or Jewey, Arthur…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, July 1. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1914 · page 3

Ernest Turner was fined 10s, with 6s court costs, for driving a vehicle over the footpath in a public street in Waratah George C. Wright was ordered to pay 5s…

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Charlestown Police Court. Tuesday, June 30. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1914 · page 7

Ada Wilson charged with improper language at Dudley was fined 20s, Henry Williams, sen., for drunkenness at Dudley was lined 40s, Charles Emmery for using…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, July 1. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Minor Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1914 · page 7

Two first offenders on charges of drunkenness were each lined 5s, with the alternative, of detention until the rising of the court. A third was given an…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 July 1914 · page 6

Mr. C. H, Gale, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morning. Lon is Sohild pleaded guilty to a charge…

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Attempted Murder. Adelaide Sensation. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 July 1914 · page 5

Shortly after six o'clock this evening Ellen Rattigan, a tailoress, of Edwards-town, aged 20, with three other women, was walking along King William-street…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, July 2. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 July 1914 · page 7

Five first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were cach fined 5s, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. Henry Kinross, 38, labourer, John Dixon,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 July 1914 · page 7

Verdicts with costs were given the plaintiffs in the following cases for the full amounts claimed. J. Cotterill v. Captain A. Elliott, £6 5s 10d, goods sold;…

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The Afternoon Shift. Industrial Court Opened. Six Hundred Defendants. the Hearing Postponed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 July 1914 · page 5

His Honor Judge Scholes presided over a special sitting of the Industrial Court, which was opened at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, to hear summonses…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 July 1914 · page 7

Tranfers of publicans' licenses were granted to the Gold Miners' Arms Hotel. Lambton, from Charles Nelson to George Malbon; of the Miners' Exchange Hotel,…

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Wild Women. Suffragettes Sentenced. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 5

There was a wild scene at the Carnarvonshire Sessions to-day when Georgine Lloyd and Phyllis North, suffragettes, each received three…

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Maitland District. Police Courts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 6

At the West Maitland Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., Thomas Hutchinson was charged with stealing the sum of 15s from the bar of…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, July 3. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Minor Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 3

Two first offenders, on charges of drunkenness, were each fined 5s, with the alternative of detention until the rising of the Court. Hubert Skokan, 30,…

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