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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1915

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Newcastle Police Court Saturday, June 12. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 June 1915 · page 3

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of live minutes' detention. Remanded…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 June 1915 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Andrew Bailey was charged that, certain premises used by him at 358…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 14. (Before Mr. A. O. Edwards, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 June 1915 · page 7

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, or detention until the rising of the court. James Henry Williams (52), factory band,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, June 15. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 June 1915 · page 7

Frank O'Shannessey, 52, labourer, for being drunk on the Newcastle railway station, while open to the public, was ordered to pay a fine of 10s, in default,…

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Trading with the Enemy. Glasgow Merchants Charged. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 June 1915 · page 5

A sensation has been caused in commercial circles by the placing on trial in Glosgow of Robert Irvingdale and Henry Wilson…

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German Prize Court. Rights of Neutrals. Stockholm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 June 1915 · page 5

The Prize Court at Berlin, overruling the decision of the Kiel Court, has decided to pay full compensation for the seizure of the Swedish steamer Ellida…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 June 1915 · page 6

On the application of Mrs. Eva Shocksmith, an order was made prohibiting publicians and other from supplying Edward Henry Shoesmith with liquor for a…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, June 16. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 June 1915 · page 7

One first offender, on a charge of drunkenness, was ordered to pay a fine of 2s 6d, or be detained for five minutes…

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Kurri. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1915 · page 6

At the police court yesterday, before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., Ralph Scott was fined 10s, and 6s costs, or seven days' hard labour, for using improper language…

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Maitland Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1915 · page 6

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

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, June 17. (Before Mr. A. O. Edwards, D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1915 · page 7

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. Lifted the Shirts…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1915 · page 7

A verdict was awarded the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board against Elizabeth Ann Hughes for the sum of £9 5s 1d, for rates, with 7s costs…

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Newcastle Stealing Case. M'glashan Gets Six Months' Gaol. Sdney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1915 · page 6

At the Quarter Sessions to-day, before Judge Murray, a man named Pater M'Glashan pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing several articles from the…

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Damaging Shearer's Window. Dunn Sent to Gaol. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1915 · page 4

At the Quarter Sessions to-day, before Judge Murray, John Dunn (44), rigger, pleaded guilty to a charge of having on May 21, in Hunter-street, Newcastle,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1915 · page 7

Harry Johnson (44), labourer, was fined 6s, with the alternative of twenty four hours imprisonment, and William Walsh (54), labourer, was fined 10s, in default 3…

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Trading with Enemy. Merchants Sent to Gaol London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 June 1915 · page 5

The trial of Robert Irvingdale, whose real name is now said to be Hetherington, and Henry Wilson; members of the hardware firm of Jacks and Company of…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, June 19. (Before Mr. A. O. Edwards, D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 June 1915 · page 7

Edward Sweeney (40), canvasser, and Mabel Dallas (38), widow, were each fined 5s, with the alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, June 21. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1915 · page 7

Eva Welsh, 37, cook, pleaded guilty to being drunk in Hunter-street West, and was ordered to pay a fine of 10s, or undergo three days' imprisonment…

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Assault on La Bassee. British Bulldog Grip. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1915 · page 5

A British officer in a letter describing the assault on La Bassee says:—"The artillery poured a tempest of shells on Givenchy brickfields. You see a high…

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Conspiracy Alleged. Army Contractors. High Court Cases. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1915 · page 5

The charges of conspiracy and forgery arising out of military contracts in New South Wales came before the High Court of Australia for hearing at Darlinghurst…

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