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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1914

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, November 19. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1914 · page 7

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 5s, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. Thomas Hill (39), seaman, was fined 10s,…

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Maitland District. Maitland District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1914 · page 6

The maitland District Court was opened at the courthouse. East Maitland, yesterday morning, before his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1914 · page 7

Verdicts, with costs of court, were awarded the plaintiffs in the following cases:—Augustus J. Larkin v. E. Bartle, of Islington, £1 16s, balance due for…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, November 19. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian, Chairman, T. C. K. M'Kell, and H. M. Shedden, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1914 · page 7

Permission was given to G. T. Langridge to effect alterations to the bar of the Commercial Hotel, Adamstown. Booth licenses for the Newcastle races…

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Court-martial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1914 · page 5

The court martial at Fort Scratchley has been concluded, and the court will forward its finding to the confirming authority. Colonel G. L. Lee, D.S.O., the…

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That Peace Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1914 · page 5

The Recessional in advance. It brings us back to that ghastly map, then to the question of questions, how to prevent a repetition. A New York paper is to…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, November 20. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Minor Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1914 · page 2

Two first offenders on charges of drunkenness, were each fined 5s, with the alternative of detention until the rising of the court. Felix M'Conville (35), fireman,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 November 1914 · page 3

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

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 November 1914 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M. occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. James M'Donald was fined 5s, in…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, November 23. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 November 1914 · page 3

Mary Walker charged her husband, John Walker, with having deserted her, leaving her and their two children without means of support. The plaintiff asked…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, November 23. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 November 1914 · page 7

Three first offenders, on charges of drunkenness, were each fined 5s, with the option of detention until the rising of the Court. Thomas Horsefield, 36, fitter, on…

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Burglary in Newcastle. Haul of Jewellery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 November 1914 · page 5

A daring robbery of jewellery took place, probably during the early hours of yesterday morning, from the premises of Messrs. Feltham and M'Leod, jewellers, of 251…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, November 24. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Bondsman Withdraws

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 November 1914 · page 2

Edwin James Pike, 23, labourer, was before the Court by reason that his bondsman, James George Cameron, suspected and believed that the said Edwin James…

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Turks in Trebizonde. Sack and Murder. Athens

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 November 1914 · page 5

Advices from Constantinople state that a large force of Turkish troops from Adrianople sacked shops belonging to Christians at Thebizonde, in Asiatic…

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District Court. Tuesday, November 24. (Before His Honor Judge Fitzhardinge.) a Roadside Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 November 1914 · page 2

Sydney Conder, miner, of Cardiff, sued Elizabeth Hutchinson and Martha Greenwell, trading as W. Hutchinson, cordial manufacturers, of Denison-street,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, November 25. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 November 1914 · page 2

One first offender, on a charge of drunkenness, was fined 5s, with the option of detention until the rising of the court. David Hutton (65) was fined 20s, or seven…

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Industrial Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 November 1914 · page 6

The adjourned cases against John Henry Bramble, of Hinton, and William Bramble, of Largs, for alleged breaches of the North Coast Districts' award in the…

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, November 26. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 November 1914 · page 7

David Ramsdale pleaded guilty to using improper language at New Lambton on the 14th instant, and was fined £1 and 6s costs, or seven days' imprisonment…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 November 1914 · page 2

No cases were set down for hearing in either the charge or summons divisions…

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French Marines' Pluck. Many Killed and Wounded. Dastardly German Murder. Dunkirk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 November 1914 · page 5

Out of 17,000 French marines doggedly [?]ding Dixmude one-half have been [?]led or Wounded. Several German companies surrendered,…

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