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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1916

1,022 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 52

Fryatt's Murder. Britain Will Avenge. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 August 1916 · page 7

The angriest feeling was displayed in the lobbies of the House of Commons yesterday, with regard to Captain Fryatt's murder…

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Fryatt's Murder. German Excuse. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 August 1916 · page 5

A German communique justifies the execution of Captain Fryatt. It describes him as a "hired assassin attempting to earn the reward offered by the British…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, August 2. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 August 1916 · page 2

Four first offenders were fined 2s 6d, in default five minutes' detention, for drunkenness. Charles Evenson (27), seaman, was ordered to pay 5s, in default…

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West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 August 1916 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Charles George Baylyn was charged with…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, August 3. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 August 1916 · page 2

A first offender was fined 2s 6d, in default give minutes' detention, for drunkenness. Mary Thomas (46), married, was ordered to pay 5s, in default 24 hours'…

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Police Court [?]Ourns

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 August 1916 · page 6

In the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M., was dealing with a sumomns case in which, strangely, enough a man was charged with…

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That Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 August 1916 · page 4

Referring to Captain Fryatt. Mr. Frederic Condert, an international lawyer, says—" I consider it extremely unwise to attempt reprisals." Then—" Punishment…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, August 4. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 August 1916 · page 10

A first-offender was fined 2s 6d, In default live minutes' detention, for drunkenness. Ship's Stores Stolen…

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Aliens Court-martialled. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 August 1916 · page 5

The Press Bureau states :—Five aliens have been tried by court-martial. Two were sentenced to five years' imprisonment another to three years, while…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, August 5. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 August 1916 · page 7

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of live minutes' detention. Mary Thomas (40), married, was fined 10s, in lieu of…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian (Chairman) and C. Hibble L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 August 1916 · page 7

The applications of John Probert for on additional bar license for the Pacific Hotel, Newcastle, and of Laurence D. Mount for alterations to the Central Hotel,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, August 7. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 August 1916 · page 3

William Arthur Fulton, 45, labourer, was fined 10s, in default, 48 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness. For having used improper language in…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, August 8. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 August 1916 · page 5

A first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, in default two hours' imprisonment. Inciting a Prisoner…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, August 9. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 August 1916 · page 7

Elizabeth Greenlands (28), was fined 10s, with the alternative of forty-eight hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness. In Military Boots…

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Newcastle Land Resumption. High Court Appeal. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 August 1916 · page 4

The hearing was continued in the High Court to-day of the appeal by the Minister for Works against that portion of an order of the Supreme Court dismissing…

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Maitland District. West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 5

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the Beach at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Teresa Maud Cooper, on remand, was charged with having, on July 29th, shot at Alfred…

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Captain Fryatt's Murder. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 4

It is officially announced that Viscount Grey, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in acknowledging the Notes dated July 29 and 31 from Mr. W. H. Page,…

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Lambton Police Court. Thursday, August 10. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 6

Mr. F. Croudace, for whom Mr. Millard appeared, obtained convictions against the following boys for trespass on the S.A.M. Company's Ernest: Robert Besides, fined £1, with…

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A Murder in the Bush

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 August 1916 · page 12

A story comes from the bush in the centre of this island of a Cook Islander having run amok and killed one man and wounded another. The native boy was…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, August 11. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 August 1916 · page 10

A first offender was fined 2s 6d, in default one hour's detention, for drunkenness. For riotous behaviour, John Flemming (33), labourer, and Roy Patmore…

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