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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1914

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, December 28. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 December 1914 · page 6

Charles Cox and Edward Ridley, charged with having been found on the licensed premises of the Terminus Hotel, Wallsend, on Sunday, 20th instant,…

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German Wirless Expert. Escapes From Gaol. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 December 1914 · page 5

The police are searching for John Kuhr, a well-known German inventor and wireless export, who escaped from, Newcastle Gaol…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, December 28. (Before Mr. A. O. Edwards, D.S.M.) Minor Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 December 1914 · page 7

Five first offenders on charges of drunkenness, pleaded guilty, and were each ordered to pay a fine of 2s 6d, or undergo five minutes' detention. Another who…

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Austrian Cruelty. in Russian Poland. Murder of Peasants. Rome

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 December 1914 · page 5

The "Messagero" states that the Austrians, on reoccupying Czernovitz, were guilty of terrible cruelties to those allegedly in favour of the Russians…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, December 29. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 December 1914 · page 11

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were fined respectively 2s 6d and 5s, with the alternative of a few minutes' detention. Samuel Arbic (33),…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 December 1914 · page 7

Clarence W. Rawthorne, 16, was charged with stealing at Mayfield on the 16th instant, one stamp album, containing 700 postage stamp and 200 cigarette cards,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 30. (Before Mr. A. O. Edwards, D.S.M.) Minor Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 December 1914 · page 2

One first offender, on a charge of drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. Jane Johnston (37), on a charge of being drunk…

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Defeat of the Turks. Their Attacks Repulsed. Turks Murder Villagers. Petrograd

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 December 1914 · page 5

A communique states:—In the Caucasus we assumed the offensive in the Oimiusk region, and occupied Merdenek, near Sarykanish…

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