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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1914

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 11. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 December 1914 · page 9

James Cullen (39), fireman, pleaded guilty to user improper language in Perkin-street, and was fined 40s, with the alternative of two weeks' imprisonment…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 December 1914 · page 7

At the Newcastle Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. O. A. Edwards, D.S.M., Thomas Hynes (21), agent, was fined £2. in default seven days' imprisonment, for…

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Trouble in the South. Miner Goes to Gaol. Wollongong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 December 1914 · page 4

Samuel M'Gowan, charged with absenting himself from work at the North Bulli Colliery, Coledale, was fined £2 with £2 2s professional costs, or one month's…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 December 1914 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M, occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court, yesterday. Daniel Hartigan was fined 10s, with 6s…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, December 14

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 December 1914 · page 3

Two first offenders, on charges of drunkenness, were each final 23 6d with the alternative of five mixtures' detention. George Nicholas Adler (58), labourer,…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, December 14

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 December 1914 · page 3

John Williams, charged with being drunk and disorderly, pleaded guilty Constable Rochester deposed that on the evening of the 8th he was asked by the…

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Retreating Germans Capture Civilians. Murder of a Lad. Boulogne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 December 1914 · page 5

Before quitting Comines, where they dynamited a bridge, the Germans took prisoners 600 men between 18 and 15 years of age, and sent them to Germany…

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German Cruelty. Pillage and Murder. German Vessel Seized. Amsterdam

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 December 1914 · page 5

The "Handelsblad" says that the Germans pillaged and burnt ten houses at Ledeghem, and shot 30 people, also ten at Cortemarch…

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Germans in Poland. Sack and Murder. Burning of Towns. Rome

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 December 1914 · page 5

The Messagere's correspondent at Warsaw says that German millitarism in Poland has destroyed, sacked, and murdered…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 December 1914 · page 6

At the West Maitland Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., R. D. Russell was charged, on the information of Stock Inspector Cotton, for…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, December 15. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, D. S. M.) Minor Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 December 1914 · page 3

Two first offenders, on charges of drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of detention for five minutes. Sydney Henry James (23), an…

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Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, December 16. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 December 1914 · page 6

Frank Harmes was charged by Senior-constable Fallon with having disobeyed a maintenance order for the support of his wife the amount due £7. Defendant…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 16. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, D.S.M.) Minor Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 December 1914 · page 7

Annie Robinson, 64 years of age, was fined 5s, with the alternative of 24 hours, on a charge of drunkenness; and on a charge of vagrancy was sentenced to one…

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Murder in Victoria. Woman and Three Children. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 December 1914 · page 6

A report was to-day received from D[?]kie that a married woman named Pughley and her three children had been murdered at Katamatite…

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The Late T. C. K. McKELL, S.M. Tributes in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 December 1914 · page 5

There was a large attendance of legal practitioners, representatives of the police, and other services in connection with court work, at the Newcastle Police…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 December 1914 · page 6

Messrs. C.H. Gale, J.W. Birkenhead, and E. Bowden, L.Ms., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Licensing court yesterday…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, December 17. (Before Mr. A. C. Edwards, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 December 1914 · page 2

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each lined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. Albert Milan, 30, engineer, was fined £2,…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. A. O. Edwards, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 December 1914 · page 2

In the case to Thomas Rotherham, of Lambton, against Mrs. William Hampden, of Hamilton, in which the plaintiff sought for the return of £35 alleged to…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian, chairman, and A. O. Edwards, L.M's.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 December 1914 · page 2

Renewals of billiard licenses were granted to Robert, Brownlie, Killingworth; Lena Elsie Campbell,. Centennial Hotel, Newcastle; Edward Forbes, Mereweather…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 18. (Before Mr. A. O. Edwards, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 December 1914 · page 3

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined as 6d, with the alternative of five minutes detention, and Joseph Grant (38) was fined 10s, in default 3 days'…

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