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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1915

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Austrian Brutality. Murder of Italians Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 September 1915 · page 5

A Verona telegram, states that the Austrlians gave the Italians in the frontier districts their choice of concentration camps or crossing the frontler…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, September 9. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 3

A first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, in default, two hours' imprisonment. James Callaghan, fireman, was fined £2, in default, 14…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 3

Music permits for the 11th instant were granted to H. Cameron, Star Inn, Hotel, Newcastle and C. S. M'Naugton, Albion Hotel, Wickham. Booth Hcenses for the…

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In South Africa. Rebels Sentenced. Pretoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 5

Forty-two followers of the rebel Colonel Kemp have been sentenced to terms varying from nine months to three years imprisonment…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, September 10 (Before Mr. C.F. Butler, S.M.) Minor Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 7

Alexander Morrison (40), fireman, was fined, 5s, with the option of 24 hours detention, on a chargE of drunkenness. For a similar offence, in conjunction with…

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Turkish Atrocities. Murder of Armenians. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 5

The Mitylene, correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" gives some cherrible details of the carrying out of the Turkish fixed policy of exterminating the Armenian…

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Lambton Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 September 1915 · page 3

It the report of the case of Barfield V. Barfield, heard in the Lambton Police Court on the 2nd instant, It was stated that the plaintiff opposed defendant's…

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Murder in Bulgaria. Sofia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 September 1915 · page 5

Tewfik Boy, another Moslem deputy, has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Mehoud Pasha, a prominent member of the Old Turk…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, September 11. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Remanded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 September 1915 · page 3

Charles Cleary (17), labourer, and Ned Joseph Hooke (16), State School boy, were presented on six charges of breaking and entering at Swansea, and were…

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Murder of British Consul. Petrograd

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 September 1915 · page 5

Mr. T. Grahame, British Consul in Persia, who was wounded in a persian ambuscade on the outskirts of Ispalian, is dead…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, September 13. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 September 1915 · page 3

John Anderson was charged with having stolen 30th of coal; valued at 2d, the property of William Laidicy and Company. Constable Rochester deposed that at about…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, September 13. (Before Mr. A. O. Edwards, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 September 1915 · page 7

A first offender, Alfred Woodcock (32), carpenter, was fined 2s[?]d, in default five minutes' detention, for [?],and £2, in default fourteen days'…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. A. C. Edwards, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 September 1915 · page 7

A transfer was granted of the license of the Newcastle Rifles Hotel, Junction from [?] Roarty, to Richard H. K. W[?]kley. Mr. H. M. Cohon (Messrs…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, September 14. (Before Mr. A. O. Edwards, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 September 1915 · page 2

Four first offenderd, charged with druniconness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default, imprisoument until the rising of the Court. One of them, Gilbert faulds, 26…

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Attempted Murder. Sofia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 September 1915 · page 5

An attempt has been made to assassinate Hadji Alil, the Vall of Adrianople but failed His twe[?]ar-old son was killed. It is believed the attempt…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, September 15. (Before Mr. A. O. Edwards, S.m.) Summons Division. Pure Food Act Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 September 1915 · page 7

Inspector R. J. Benyon, of the Hamilton municipality, prosecuted Ah Sue, Ah Chong, and Hep,Lee, under the Pure Food Act, on a charge of using as a sleeping…

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Railway Men Sentenced. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 5

The trial of Signalmon Meakin and Tinsley and Fireman Hutchinson in connection with the Gretna railway collision was concluded to-day. Hutchinson was…

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Industrial Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 3

Mr. G. C. Addison, Chief Industrial Magistrate, sat at the Newcastle Court-house yesterday. UNIONIST COMPLICATIONS…

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, September 16. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 3

John Buruley pleaded guilty to[?] drunk at New Lambton. He pleaded guilty, and was fined is, with 6s costs. John Monagle pleaded guilty to a charge…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, September 16. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, A.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 7

Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention…

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