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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1917

1,227 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 62

Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, January 18. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian and C. Hibble, L.Ms.) Cross Keys, Carrington

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 2

William Chas. Savil, licensee of the Cross Keys Hotel, Carrington (assessment £447 and license fee £50), applied for a reduction of the fee on the ground…

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Police Court

Northern Times · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 1

Mr. F C. Adrian, S.M., presided at the Newcastle, Police Court this morning. A first offender, for drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d. or five…

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Maitland Police Court. a Linguistic Miner

Northern Times · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 5

William Wilson, miner, was, at the West Maitland Police Court this morning, fined by Mr. D. J. Ryan. J.P., on a charge of being drunk in Church…

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Branxton Court

Northern Times · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 2

At the Branxton Police Court on January 17. before Mr. Fincham, P.M., William Wiseman, for keeping an unregistered dog, was fined 10s and 6s…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, January 19. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M. Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 7

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

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Newcastle Police Court

Northern Times · Monday 22 January 1917 · page 4

The number of police charges dealt with at Newcastle Court this morning, when Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M., was on the bench, was above the average of…

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Wemen in Court. Magistrate Induces Settlement

Northern Times · Monday 22 January 1917 · page 1

Two young women from Carrington appeared at Newcastle Police Court this morning before Mr. C. F. Butler, S. M., in answer to cross summonses…

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Confirmed Vagrant. Another Six Months in Gaol

Northern Times · Monday 22 January 1917 · page 5

An elderly deformed man named Henry Schultz, alias Deusca, alias liansen, answered a charge of vagrancy at the West Maitland Police…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1917 · page 7

One first offender for drunkenness was fined 2s 6d, in default live minutes detention William Clough, 45, labourer, for drunkenness, was fined 30s, or seven days…

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A Court Frequenter. Again Convicted

Northern Times · Monday 22 January 1917 · page 4

With 124 convictions recorded against him, Joseph Wilks complacently faced Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court, this…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 6

Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., Henry. Schultz, alias Densea, alias Hanson (42), was charged with vagrancy, at the West Maitland Police Court, yesterday. Sergeant…

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Newcastle Police Court. Vagrancy Charges

Northern Times · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 2

At the Newcastle Police Court this morning hetoro Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M. James Woods, 55 years of age, was charged with being an idle and…

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Alleged Military Fraud. Drawing Others' Pay. Police Court Charge

Northern Times · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Lieutenant David Clayton Howell Price was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with knowingly obtaining the…

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Galled Him a German. Alleged Assault

Northern Times · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 2

A charge of having assaulted Goolan Mahomed, an Indian, was preferred against Samuel Stevenson Read, a traveller, before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M…

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Wallsend Police Court. Monday, January 22. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 7

The adjourned case, Thomas Richards versus Alma E. Richards, detention of property was called. Mr. T. A. Braye, who appeared for complainant, stated that…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 22. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 3

Owen Sharkey, 58, miner, Annie Shepherd, 35, Emma Havard, 46, married, and Edward Cullen, 48, wharf labourer, were each fined 10s, in default, 48 hours'…

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Alleged Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 8

Samuel Stevenson Read, a returned soldier was charged at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Mr. W. B. Geddes, J.P., with having, on January…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, January 23. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Idle and Disorderly

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 3

James Woods (55) was charged with being an idle and disorderly person without sufficient lawful means of support. He pleaded not guilty. The police evidence…

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Railway Gear Stolen. Workshop Fitter Charged, Convicted of Theft

Northern Times · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 5

George Taylor, 40, a fitter, was charged before Mr. Butler, S.M., at the Newcastle Police Court, to-day, with having, at Newcastle, between…

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Lambton Police Court. Wednesday, 'January 24. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 7

Arthur Lidney Payne, of Lambton, butcher, who has also a branch shop in Regent-street, New Lambton, was again charged by the Board of Health…

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