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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1919

1,127 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 57

Suburban Robberies Boys Before the Court Carter Fined £20

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 March 1919 · page 5

Earl Desmond Robson (17), James Joseph Easterbrook (17), William Percy Burridge (18), laborers, and Samuel Lancelot Rose (17), shopboy,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, March 20. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 March 1919 · page 7

William Percy Burridge (18), James Joseph Easterbrook (17), and Earl Desmond Robson (17), labourers, on remand, were charged with stealing, at Newcastle,…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 March 1919 · page 7

In the case, J. C. Ross, of Stockton, v. R. W. Miller, of Sydney, wherein the plaintiff claimed £44 is for work done and material supplied on the steamer…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. C. F. Butler, and C. Hibble, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 March 1919 · page 7

Renewals of hotel licenses were granted to James G. M'Geachie, Killingworth Hotel. Killingworth; Louisa Fulton, Tattersall's Hotel, Wallsend: Arthur…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, March 21. (Before Mr. S. B. Gunn, S.M.) Improper Conduct

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 March 1919 · page 3

John Brown (48), labourer, was charged with improper conduct near the Stockton ferry wharf. The defendant was ordered to be imprisoned with hard labour for six…

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Maitland District. Maitland District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 March 1919 · page 8

The Maitland District Court was resumed yesterday, at the courthouse, East Maitland, before his Honor Acting Judge White…

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"We Don't Know You" Cabinet and Police Union LONDON, Friday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 22 March 1919 · page 1

The war Ca[?] has refused to recognise the Police Union…

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West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Ernest Bush was fined 10s, with 3s costs, in default seven days' imprisonment, for…

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District Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 1

The next District Court at Newcastle will be held on May 12. The last day for entering [?]nty will be April 2[?]…

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Wallsend Police Court Monday, March 24. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 7

Charles Gilmore proceeded against James Wardle, senior, John Wardle, and James Wardle, junior, for having trespassed upon enclosed lands in the occupation of the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, March 24. (Before Mr. S. B. Gunn, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 7

Walter Clifton Hardy (28), labourer, and Thomas Kavanagh (36), labourer, were each fined £2, or one month's imprisonment, for drunkenness. Trighy Johanson…

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Gross Hits Neighbors at Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 March 1919 · page 5

Cross cases of assault, in which Samuel Edward Blanch and Edward Hording were the parties, were heard before Mr. Gunn, S.M., at Newcastle…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, March 26. (Before Mr. S. B. Gunn, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 March 1919 · page 3

A first offender, for drunkenness, was fined 5s, or detention until the rising of the court. Alleged False Pretence…

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Sinn Fein Outrage Theft of Munitions London, Wednesday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 27 March 1919 · page 5

It is reported from Dublin that 50 masked Sinn Feiners raided an aerodrome near Dublin. They arrived in motor cars and surprised, bound and…

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Sentenced to Death Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 March 1919 · page 4

A sensational murder case was concluded at Gladstone to-day, in which Percival William Budd was charged with having wilfully murdered Harold Sydney…

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Industrial Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 March 1919 · page 5

Mr. G. C. Addison, Chief Industrial Magistrate, sat at the Newcastle Court-house yesterday. F. N. Wiggin, secretary of the Iron and…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, March 27. (Before Mr. S. B. Gunn, S.M.) Improper Behaviour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 March 1919 · page 7

Henry Bennett (45), labourer, pleaded guilty to having behaved in an improper manner in Scott-street, and was fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment…

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Small Debts Court. Satisfactorily Settled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 March 1919 · page 7

Barbara Barclay proceeded against Margaret Barclay, claiming £10 damages for alleged slander. Mr. J. D. Reid appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. A. H…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. S. B. Gunn and C. Hibble L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 March 1919 · page 7

A transfer of the license of the Royal Crown Hotel, Adamstown, was granted from J. W. Hitchcock to J. George; permission for alterations to premises was…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, March 28. (Before Mr. S. B. Gunn, S.M.) Vagrancy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 March 1919 · page 5

Patrick Nolan (57), labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge of vagrancy. It was stated that there had been a number of complaints of the man's habits, and he…

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