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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1916

1,022 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 48 of 52

City Revision Court. Increased Enrolment

Northern Times · Monday 4 December 1916 · page 5

The proceedings of the Newcastle Municipal Revision Court occupied only a fow minutes, before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M., at the Conn House this…

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West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1916 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Maud Amelia Betteridge, on remand from…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1916 · page 7

A first offender was fined 2s 6d, in default five minutes' detention, for drunkenness. A Remand…

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An Unnecessary Cripple. a Nuisance in Gaol and Out?

Northern Times · Tuesday 5 December 1916 · page 6

What to do with a paralytic, named Edward Mantle, is a question at present agitating the mind of Mr. Goddes J.P., at West Maitland. Mantle has…

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Teralba Court

Northern Times · Wednesday 6 December 1916 · page 2

At the Teralba Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Butler, S.M., the case of Harold Howell versus Clarence Green, for alleged unlawful…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, December 5. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Failing to Register

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 December 1916 · page 3

Abraham Antoon Verhagen (22), seaman, was charged with failing to register under the War Precautions Act, he being an alien resident in the Commonwealth…

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Kurri Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 December 1916 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Kurri Kurri Police Court, yesterday. Thomas Hopkins was charged with…

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Manly Murder

Northern Times · Thursday 7 December 1916 · page 5

SYDNEY. Thursday.—In the Central Police Court to-day Herbert Susans, aged 27, was charged with the murder of William Cameron M'Kinnon, at…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, December 6. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Illegal Possession of Stores

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

John Elliott (62), collector, on bail, was charged with, at Newcastle, on December 5, having in his possession 1 tin of oil, 1 tin of kerosene, 3 drums of white lead,…

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Alleged Stealing. Well-known Maitland Carter Charged

Northern Times · Friday 8 December 1916 · page 1

Yesterday afternoon Detective Surridge, of Newcastle, arrested James Schuck, aged 44, at West Maitland, on two charges in connection with…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, December 7. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 December 1916 · page 2

William Rippon, 34, master mariner, for having been drunk and disorderly in Scott-street, Newcastle, was fined 20s, in default, seven days' imprisonment…

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Police and I.W.W. Meeting of Citizens. Disgraceful Incidents. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 December 1916 · page 6

Some disgraceful incidents marked the meeting of citizens held in the vestibule of the Town Hall this afternoon with the object of expressing appreciation of the…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, December 7. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian and C. F. Butler, L.Ms.) Cardiff Hotel Transfererd

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 December 1916 · page 2

On Thursday of last week there was a case listed against Andrew Henry Latham, licensee of the Cardiff Hotel, Cardiff, asking him to show cause why…

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Police Court

Northern Times · Saturday 9 December 1916 · page 7

"You are fined half-a-crown, in default five minutes imprisonment. you can go." To Pronounce this penalty on three first-offenders for…

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Alleged Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 December 1916 · page 6

A case of more than ordinary interest was entered upon at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Mr. W. B. Geddes, J.P., when James Schuck, 44, a…

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Murder of Venizelists. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 December 1916 · page 5

Lord Denman, formerly Governor of Australia, in a letter to newspapers states:— "I visited Athens in July, and met a number of prominent Venizelists, some of…

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Murdered in Kitchen. I.W.W. Member Charged

Northern Times · Saturday 9 December 1916 · page 6

SYDNEY, Saturday.—James Wilson, now serving a term of imprisonment, will appear at the Central Police Court on Monday, charged with the…

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Murder and Pillage. New York

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 December 1916 · page 5

A United Press correspondent states that anarchy and panic arc following the German advance is Rumania. Murder, pillage, and every kind of…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, December 8. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 December 1916 · page 9

Unico Saxon (51), cook, was fined 20s, in default seven days in goal for drunkenness. For having used improper language in Scott-street, Newcastle…

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Murder at Cafe. I.W.W. Member Charged

Northern Times · Monday 11 December 1916 · page 5

SYDNEY. Monday.—In the Central Police Conn to-day, James Wilson, aged 35, at present a prisoner at the Long Bay Penitentiary, was charged…

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