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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1919

1,127 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 57

Newcastle Police Court. Friday, May 16. (Before Mr. S. B. Gunn, S. M.) Hamilton Shooting Case. Wife Committed for Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 May 1919 · page 4

Rosetta Lamond (32), appeared, on remand from May 12, charged that at Hamilton on May 9 she did shoot at Archibald Hamilton Lamond with intent to…

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Pensioner Loses £30 Army Home Incident Two Seamen Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 May 1919 · page 4

Patrick Barry (25), fireman, and Alfred Williams (37), seaman, appeared before Mr. Butler, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day, charged…

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"What's the Joke?" Police Sergeant Insulted

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 May 1919 · page 4

For having used to Sergeant H. J. Roberts the words: "What's the joke; you are courting my wife in the dark; now you have her, you can keep her"…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, May 19. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1919 · page 7

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, had their bonds forfeited. James Ryan (29), labourer, was fined 5s, in default 24 hours, for drunkenness. William…

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Summons Division. Insulted a Police Sergeant

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1919 · page 7

Thomas J. F. Johns was charged with using abusive words to sergeant H. J. Roberts. Mr. T. A. Braye appeared for the defendant. He said that there was no…

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Police on Patrol Wharfies Co-operate MELBOURNE

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 May 1919 · page 5

There is very little change in the position on the waterfront this morning. All vessels abandoned yesterday by seamen are still idle…

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Clabby and Police Repentance in Court SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 4

James Clabby, 28, boxer, was at the Central Police Court to-day fined amounts totaling £4, in default 14 days, on charges of having behaved in…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, May 20. (Before Mr. S. B. Gunn, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 7

A first offender, for drunkenness, was fined 5s, or 24 hours' imprisonment Rupert Condor Hunt (23), labourer, on bail, was also fined 5s, or detention until…

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Steel Works Varying the Award Applications to Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 5

Mr. Justice Edmunds sat in industrial Court jurisdiction at Newcastle this morning to hear application for variations ol tho Steel Works award,…

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Seamen's Dispute Court Takes a Hand Hostility to Loyalists MELBOURNE

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 4

On the application of Admiral Clarkson, Controller of Shipping, the Federal Arbitration Court this afternoon decided to Intervene…

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G.M.P. SENTENCED Six Months for Assault SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 May 1919 · page 4

Robert Kennedy, military policeman, Who was tound guilty with a recommendatic to Dierey, on a charge of assaulting William Cassin Williams, a…

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Murder in Hungary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 May 1919 · page 5

A Budapest telegram confirms the report that a former President of the Hungarian House of Representatives has been murdered in a train by a communist…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, May 21. (Before Mr. S. B. Gunn, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 May 1919 · page 7

Emma Havard (48), married, and Lawrence Fishburn (36), carpenter, were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours imprisonment, for drunkenness…

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Woman Murdered Soldier Charged London, May 14

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 1

Sgt.-Mir. Montagu Hepburn, of the Royal Engineers, who is charged with having murdered the woman Rault, has been remanded. The inquest…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, May 22. (Before Mr. S. B. Gunn, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 7

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s, wilt the alternative of detention until the rising of the court. Lawrence Fishburn, for being…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. S. B. Gunn, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 7

In the garnishee matter of Alfred Upton, Judgment creditor, W. Hoskins, judgment debtor, and the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, garnishee, the sum of £3 12s…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 7

Booth licenses were granted to H. J. B. Robinson, of the Northern Star Hotel, Hamilton, for the Newcastle races on May 31 and June 4, Renewals were…

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Found in the Yard a Wickham Escapade Incredulous Magistrate

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 May 1919 · page 5

"Not guilty" was the plea of Charles Edward Tietney (45), laborer, to Mr. Butter, S.m., at Newcastle Police Court to-day, when charged…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, May 24. (Before Mr. A. G. Chiplin, P.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 May 1919 · page 2

A first offender, who had been locked up for drunkenness, did not appear, and his bond was forfeited. John Farley, 19, and George Croker, 19, seamen,…

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Maitland District. Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1919 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the mench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. George Wilson, asks Williams, on…

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