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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1917

1,227 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 51 of 62

Theft From a Ship

Northern Times · Thursday 25 October 1917 · page 5

At Newcastle Police Court this afternoon before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M., Charles Goode, 60 cook, was charged with stealing two tins of jam,…

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Charge of Assault. Defendant Becomes Ill

Northern Times · Thursday 25 October 1917 · page 3

Charles Henry Lambert (21), on remand, was charged with having assaulted Special-Constable R. C. Morgan while in the execution of…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, October 24. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Soldiers in Court

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

William Albert Hull (27) and George Groves M'Ewan (32), soldiers, admitted that they travelled on the railway between Strathfield and Newcastle without…

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Colliery Federation. Case for High Court

Northern Times · Thursday 25 October 1917 · page 2

The hearing was continued in Melbourne, before Mr. Justice Higgins, of the application calling upon the officials of the Australian Coal and…

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Aerial. Murder Bombs. Houses Go Down Like Cards Distraught Mother's Frantic Cry

Northern Times · Thursday 25 October 1917 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday.—The size and force of the newest Zeppelin bombs could be gathered at the inquest on 14 of the victims of the…

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Waterside Workers. Industrial Court Intervention. Coal Trimmers' Resolutions

Northern Times · Thursday 25 October 1917 · page 5

The position as regards the coal trimmers was the main topic in industrial circles to-day. It has been known for some time past that the…

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West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 6

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

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Horse Stealing Charge. Possible Withdrawal

Northern Times · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 5

Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, at Newcastle Police Court, this morning, Albert Edward Ellerton (28), engineer, on remand, was charged with having…

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Mars Miller Sentenced. Swindling a Woman

Northern Times · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 5

SYDNEY. Friday.—Mars Miller, convicted of false pretences, has been sentenced to two years' hard labour. The official assignee stated in…

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Charge of Assault. Railway Station Affray

Northern Times · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 3

Charles Henry Lambert (21), on remand, pleaded guilty at Newcastle Court to-day to a charge of having, at Newcastle, on October 23, unlawfully…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, October 25. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 2

Rees John whose age was set down on the charge sheet as 81 years, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Ocean-street, Newcastle, on Wednesday. The…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, October 23. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian and C. Hibble, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 2

An additional bar license was granted Edwin Sara, Clarendon Hotel, Newcastle…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 October 1917 · page 3

For drunkenness, Lionel Robert Smith (49), was fined 5s, or 24 hours. Edward Jennings (49), groom, was fined 5s, or 24 hours, for drunkenness, and 40s, or seven…

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America. United States. Plot to Murder President. Eight Men Arrested

Northern Times · Saturday 27 October 1917 · page 1

MEMPHIS, Friday.—Fight men have been arrested and charged with ploting to assassinate President Wilson. The authorities are inclined to…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, October 29. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 October 1917 · page 7

For drunkenness, Kate Ellick, 45, married, was fined 10s, or 48 hours. Soldiers on Final Leave. John Hazel Lay, 25, Leslie Williams, 28,…

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Neighbours in Court Both Parties Fined. Trouble over the Fowls

Northern Times · Wednesday 31 October 1917 · page 5

The hearing of the circumstances surrounding a quarrel between two elderly residents of Teralba Road, Broadmeadow, engaged the attention…

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Impounding Cases. Maitland Police Court

Northern Times · Thursday 1 November 1917 · page 5

Mr. C. H. Gale. P.M. at West Maitland, gave further consideration today to the charges brought by the Cessnock Shire impounding officer…

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Lambton Court

Northern Times · Thursday 1 November 1917 · page 3

At Lambton police court today before, Mr. F.G. Adrian. S.M , only one summers was listed, a charge of assault and the solicitor for the…

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Late cables Hun Murder Plot. Against Americans

Northern Times · Thursday 1 November 1917 · page 5

BALTIMORE, Wednesday.—Two suspected German agents have been arrested at Memphis in connection with a nation-wide plot to kill American…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, October 31. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.m.) Summons Division. Traffic Laws

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 November 1917 · page 3

The police summoned Walter Genge and Percy Woolley on charges of leaving their motor cars unattended in a position that obstructed the traffic. Both…

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