Stolen Potatoes. Wharf Pillager Fined £15. Magistrate's Grave Warning
Pilfering from Newcastle wharves has become a serious matter during the past few months. It thrives because offenders are so hard to detect…
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Courts & crime, 1917
1,227 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 62
Newcastle Police Court. Monday, March 26. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
William May (54), wharf labourer, was fined 10s, or three days, for drunkenness, and 40s, or two weeks, for improper language…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Valuations. Appeal Court Opened
Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M., presided over the appeal court for the municipality of Newcastle, which opened at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday afternoon. Mr. E…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Comedy in Court. Serbian, Little Girl, Bears and Monkey
Quite a Christmas touch was lent to the generally dull and prosy proceedings at Old Street Police Court by a story of two brown bears and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Double Tragedy. Murder and Suicide
A dreadful domestic tragedy, in which Thomas Andrew Thorley shot his wife dead, and then took his own life, occurred at Luskintyre, a farming centre, about…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, March 27. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness
For drunkenness three first offenders were each fined 2s 6d, or five minutes; Frederick Gitsham (38), trimmer, 5s, or 24 hours; William Hornby (37), fireman,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Tragedy. Murder and Suicide. Three Bullets in Woman
News reached West Maitland about 5 p.m. on Tuesday, of a horrible tragedy having been enacted at Luskintyre, about three miles from Lochinvar…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol Escapee. Twice in Four Months
SYDNEY, Thursday. — Frederick George O'Neill, alias Tighe, escaped from Fremantle Gaol, for the second continue in four months. The prisoner…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, March 28. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness
For drunkenness, William Muzzard (33), coal trimmer, wan lined 10s, in default three days' imprisonment…
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At the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M., heard further applications by hotel licensees for abatement of rent under the amended Liquor…
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Mr. G. C. Addison, Chief Industrial Magistrate, sat at the Newcastle Courthouse to-day. John Healey, trading as Healey Bros…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Vandalism in Gregson Park. Police Assistance Needed
Mr. A. J. Brown, the Hamilton Council's gardener, in a report to the council last night, directed attention to the destruction in Gregson…
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A sitting of the Industrial Court was held at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, before Mr. C. G. Addison, Chief Industrial Magistrate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, March 29. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.) Drunkenness
For drunkenness William J. Harding, 58, labourer, was fined 20s, or seven days; and the bond of Edward O'Neill was forfeited. Deserting Seamen…
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Mr. F. G. Adrian. S.M., at the Newcastle Special Licensing court yesterday, refused to reduce the rent of the Terminus Hotel, Merewether…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)
Johnson and Co., Newcastle v. Owen Alexander Harcombe, Mayfield, claim for commission on sale of property. Mr. J. D. Reid (Messrs. Reid and Reid), for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, March 29. (Before Messrs. C. H. Gale and C. Hibble, L.Ms.)
Whitfield Pryor was permitted to transfer the license of the Wallarah Hotel, Catherine Hill, Bay, to Charles M'Vay. Alexander Stewart, licensee of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, March 30. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness
For drunkenness, Patrick W. Reardon (55), labourer was fined 10s, or three days' imprisonment. The bonds of Leslie Lambert (22), jeweller, and Peter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Special Licensing Court. Friday, March 30th. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Pacific Hotel
Mr. T. Torpey, who appeared for John Prebert, of the Pacific Hotel, Newcastle said a settlement bed been arrived at with the Castlemaine Brewery, represented by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jockeys at Law. Charge of Assault. "Sparring" at Broadmeadow
The only defended Action at Newcastle Police Court this morning, when Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.. was on the bench, was a charge by Edward Allen Evans of…
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