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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1916

1,022 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 52

Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, April 22. (Before Mr. H. H. Chippindall, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 April 1916 · page 3

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

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Maitland District. Maitland Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 April 1916 · page 6

The Maitland Circuit Court will be opened on Wednesday morning, at the Courthouse, East Maitland, before his Honor Justice Ferguson, and the following cases have been…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, April 24. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 April 1916 · page 3

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was lined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. For having made use of improper language, John…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, April 25. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 April 1916 · page 2

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

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 April 1916 · page 7

William Walker (38), labourer, was flood 2s 6d, in default imprisonment for five minutes, for drunkenness. Frank Fitasimmons (25), seaman, was fined £1, in…

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Police Launch Ablaze. Occupants Swim Ashore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 April 1916 · page 5

The Newcastle police oil launch caught fire last night, at about nine o'clock, while returning to town from North Stockton. There were three members of the police…

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Maitland District. Maitland Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 April 1916 · page 6

The sittings of the Maitland Circuit Court opened before his Honor Mr. Justice Fergrison, at the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday morning. Mr. D. S…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, April 27. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 April 1916 · page 3

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

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Maitland District. Maitland Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 April 1916 · page 6

The sittings of the Maitland Circuit Court opened before his Honor Mr. Justice Ferguson, at the East Maitland Courthouse, yesterday morning. Mr. D. S…

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Small Debts Court. Thursday, April 27. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 April 1916 · page 3

Verdicts were awarded the plaintiffs for the amounts claimed, with costs, in the following cases: E. T. and J. Williams v. F. W. Newman, of West Maitland, £14…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, April 27. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian and C. F. Butler, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 April 1916 · page 3

The application by Louisa Fulton for the renewal of a colonial wine license at West Wallsend was granted…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, April 28. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1916 · page 7

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

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Austrian Court. the Hapsburgs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1916 · page 11

A new champion has arisen to defend the fame and the sanity of the royal house at Hapsburg. In "My Years at the Austrian Court," Nellie Ryan, an…

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The Camera in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1916 · page 13

Few places are in these progressive days sacred against the incursion of the camera man, but hitherto it is rarely in this country that a member of the…

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Maitland District. Maitland Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1916 · page 6

The sittings of the Maitland Circuit Court were resumed before his Honor Mr. Justice Ferguson, at the East Maitland Courthouse, yesterday morning. Mr. D…

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Tricked to Death. Hun Court-martial Duplicity

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1916 · page 13

The Abbe Wetterle, who previous to the war was a deputy in the Reichstag for an Alsatian constituency, and on whose head the Germans have set a…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, April 29. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 May 1916 · page 2

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. Thomas Ford (62), labourer, was fined 10s, in…

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Plot in Turkey. Murder of the Sultan London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 May 1916 · page 5

A big conspiracy has been discovered in Constantinople, in which many high officials are implicated. Plans had been made to arrest the…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, May 1. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1916 · page 7

Elizabeth Perrott made application for a maintenance order against her husband, Ernest George Perrott. Mr. W. T. Harper appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. J…

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Maitland Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1916 · page 6

The sittings of the Maitland Circuit Court were resumed before His Honor Justice Ferguson at the courthouse, East Maitland, yesterday. Mr. D. S. Edwards…

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