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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1915

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, January 16. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, Acting S.M.) Minor Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 7

Two first offenders on charges of drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of detention for five minutes. May Heath (41), married, land…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Friday, January 15 (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, L.M.) Transfer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 7

Approval was given to an application for the transfer of the Holmesville Hotel. Holmesville, from Robert Durie to Gebrge Gray…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 7

Richard Pearce (37), wharf labourer, and John Campbell (69), labourer, were each ordered to pay a fine of 5s, or undergo 'twenty-four hours' imprisonment, on…

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Death of Mr. E. C. Day. Inspector-general of Police. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 4

Mr. E. C. Day ex-Inspector-General of Police, died at his residence, Park-road, Moore Park, early this morning. He had suffered from periodical breakdowns in…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 18. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Minor Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 7

Thomas Barry (41), labourer, was ordered to pay a fine of 20s, with the alternative of seven days' gaol, on a charge of drunkenness. Edward Hughes (52), miner,…

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Wallsend Small Debts Court. Monday, January 18. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 3

When the case of Anderson versus Harrison was called, it was announced it had been settled, and was accordingly withdrawn…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, January 19. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunk and Disorderly

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 3

Donald M'Donald (34), tailor, pleaded guilty to having been drunk and disorderly in a railway carriage between Maitland and Newcastle on the previous day…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, January 20. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1915 · page 7

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

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, January 21. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, Acting S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1915 · page 3

William Metcalfe, Thomas Armstrong, William Leatherby, James Gladding. George Metcalfe, James Williams, Charles Ridley, Cuthbert Gales, William Burrowes,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, January 21. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Minor Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1915 · page 2

One first offender, on a charge of being drunk in Bolton-street, was fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of detention for five minutes. Albert George Richards,…

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Small Debts Court. Thursday, January 21. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1915 · page 2

S. Dark v. J. Wall, claim for £15 15s; verdict for plaintiff, with costs 5s 9d. S. Dark v. R. Foley, claim £7 10s 6d, verdict for plaintiff, with 12s 9d costs…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, January 21. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian, and C. Hibble, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1915 · page 3

Renewal of the license of the Cross Keys Hotel. Cowper-street. Carrington, was granted to William Charles Sevil, and an application for the transfer of the license…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday January 22. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1915 · page 2

Two first offenders on charges of drunkenness, were each ordered to pay a fine of 2s 6d, or be detained for five minutes. Theft of a Bicycle…

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The Wheat Difficulty. Police Seizure Denied. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1915 · page 5

Mr. Ashford, Minister for Agriculture, stated to-day that there was no truth in the report from Murrumburrah that a farmer purchases seed wheat from a…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, January 23. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Minor Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 January 1915 · page 7

Two first offenders, on charges of drunkenness, were each ordered to pay a fine of 2s 6d, or be detained for five minutes…

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Italian Opinion. Murder, Not War. Rome

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 January 1915 · page 5

The journal "II-Secolo" states that the action of Germany in raiding the peaceful fields of Norfolk was not war but murder. It will make Germany's position all the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 25. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Minor Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 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. William Upton (35), on a charge of being…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, January 26. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 11

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, in default, detention for five minutes. One of them, Charles Newton, 44, mariner, was…

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Court-martialled in France

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 11

In a small town I was arrested at nightfall, just after crossing the wreck of the iron bridge that now lies sprawling in the river, blown up at either end…

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Charlestown Police Court. Tuesday, January 26. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 January 1915 · page 6

Thomas Taffe, for using improper language at Swansea, was fined 20s, with costs 6s. William Jones, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 40s, with costs…

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