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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1919

1,127 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 57

"Brutal" Assault Maitland Men Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 October 1919 · page 5

Before Mr. A. O. Butler, D.S.M., all Maitland Court, to-day, the adjourned charge against Arthur Edward Ward and Edward Mellon, in which the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, October 20. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1919 · page 7

The bail of a first offender, charged with drunkenness, was forfeited. Grace Harrop (48), domestic duties, was fined 2s 6d, in default imprisonment until the…

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Hospital Day Friendly Societies' Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 October 1919 · page 5

The ladies' committee in charge of the Friendly Societies' Court, which is to be erected in Wolfe-street in connection with Hospital and Benevolent…

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Work or Gaol Vagrant's Alternative

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 October 1919 · page 2

Constable Brady told Mr. Gunn,. S.M, at the Newcastle Court this morning, that be bad known James Phillip Gillick for six months, and had…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, October 21. (Before Mr. S. B. Gunn, S.M.) Remands

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 October 1919 · page 7

Yujiro Ban (49) cook, charged with attempting to commit suicide at Newcastle on October 20. Constable Ford, of the water police stated that at three…

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Barrage of Bricks Soldiers and Police Vancouver

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 October 1919 · page 1

New York mounted police to-night charged a crowd of 300 ex-service men who were massed in front of the Lexington Theatre to prevent the…

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Motor Theft Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 4

In a motor car which had been stolen from Dr. G. H. Baring-Deck's home in Woolstonecraft last night, three men drove to Miranda Post…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 7

One first offender, who had been locked up for drunkenness and admitted to bail, did not appear, and his ball was forfeited. Richard Prescott (36), seaman,…

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Dr. Grieves' Groom Gaol for Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 5

Dr. Grieves gave his groom £2 17s last week to get some harness mended. The groom disappeared, and with him the money and the harness. The…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, October 23. (Before Mr. S. B. Gunn, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 3

Patrick Doyle, 67, labourer, and James Boyd, 34, fireman, for drunkenness, were each fined 5s, or the rising of the Court. James M'Cutcheon, 36, shipwright, for a…

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Bluebeard's Chamber Four Skeletons Murder Theory Revived LONDON, Thursday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 1

"The Times" Paris correspondent says that the skeletons of four woman have been discovered on Landru's estate at Gamba[?]s…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 3

Janet Farnham, of Wickham, v. Patrick Clarke, of Wickham, claim of £4 8s, being balance alleged to be due for rent of a shed at Wickham. Mr. A. H. James,…

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O'donnell Sensation Appeal to Hughes Australian Court-Martial LONDON, Thursday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 1

Fa[?]her O'Donnell has appealed to Mr. Hughes, General Birdwood and Archbishop Mannix against his "malicious arrest and deportation."…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 3

An additional bar license was granted to Edwin Sara, of the Clarendon Hotel, Newcastle. Permission to make material alterations…

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French Court-martial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 October 1919 · page 7

Acting on the advice of a committee, the French War Minister has decided to hold a court-martal on General Fourier, the commandant, at Maubeuge in 1914, in…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, October 24. (Before Mr. S. B. Gunn, S.M.) Fraudulent Appropriation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 October 1919 · page 5

Francis Boyd, alias Martin Boyle, 19, groom, was charged with, at Stockton, on September 5, fraudulently appropriating to his own use a sulky, a saddle, and…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 October 1919 · page 3

At the Newcastle Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M., Leslie Rixon (34), labourer, and Martha Cornish (41) were each fined £3, in default one…

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Hamilton Brawl Police Punched and Kicked Four Men in Court

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 October 1919 · page 5

There was an exciting brawl in Beaumont-street. Hamilton, on October 18, between two constables and members of a race crowd. During the…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, October 27. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Drunkenness, etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1919 · page 7

Two first offenders charged with drunkenness were each fined 2s 6d, in default an hour's imprisonment, and the ball of three others was forfeited. William…

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Retired with Honor 31 Years in Police Sgt. Turnbull Entertained

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 October 1919 · page 4

After 31 years' service in the New South Wales police force, ex-Sergeant J. Turnbull, of Hamilton, retired a few months ago…

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