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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1921

1,748 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 44 of 88

Smeared with Mud Mourners Assault Motorist LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 25 June 1921 · page 1

A Rangoon message sates that the death has occurred of Prince Jamused Bukht, grandson of the last King of Delhi. The funeral was largely…

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Teralba Police Court. Thursday, June 28. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1921 · page 2

Thomas Keating, charged with being drunk, did not appear, and his bond was forfeited. Charles Carroll Power, Junior, of Adamstown, charged with making use…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, June 24. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1921 · page 2

William Watson (21), labourer, was fined 5s, or three hours' detention, for drunkenness. On the same charge Charles M'Carthy (38), fireman, was…

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Again Sent to Gaol. Mrs. Webb Will Not Answer. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1921 · page 4

The City Coroner to-day continued his inquiry into the death of Mrs. Margaret M'Gill (25), which occurred from septicaomia at the Coast Hospital on May 22…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1921 · page 2

The licence of the Federal Hotel, Stockton, was transferred from Robert Stevenson to John Charles M'Intyre…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 June 1921 · page 6

At the Newcastle Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. A. G. Chiplin, C.M., four persons charged with drunkenness for the first time did not appear, and…

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Beaconsfield Murder Man Detained by Police MELBOURNE

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 June 1921 · page 5

The police are de[?] a man in connection with the [?] murder, when Fied Should and his wife lost their lives…

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Police Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 June 1921 · page 6

At West Maitland Police Court this morning Freder k E. Jarvis was fined £2 a or 21 days for using indecent landgunge in High-street,…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1921 · page 6

At the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Hungerford, J.P., three first offenders were each fined 2s 6d, or detention until the court rose, for…

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Police Wanted Mayfield Growth Search for a Home

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 June 1921 · page 8

Mayfield, like many other suburbs about the Newcastle district, whose rapid growth has been greater than anticipated, has suffered as a result…

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"Murdered!" Shower Sensation Police to the Rescue SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 June 1921 · page 4

[?] night a woman living at Itile[?] Sorry Hills, stepped under a cold [?], The ley coldness of the water cansed her to scream, and then…

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'Snowy' Baker Fined Missing From Court SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 June 1921 · page 4

Among those who were fined 40s by Judge Armstrong at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day for non-attendance as a [?]ror was itegin[?] Leslie Banker,…

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Police Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 June 1921 · page 5

At the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. Joseph Alexander Wright was fined 5s, or three hours, for being drunk, £2, or seven days, for improper…

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Cessnock Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1921 · page 8

Mr. G. Atkin P.M., occupied the bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. Alexander Watson was fined 5s for being drunk and disorderly, and Samuel Hanley…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, June 28. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1921 · page 9

Eleven persons, charged with drunkenness for the first time, did not appear, and their bail deposits were forfelted. Joseph Hanlon (40), labourer, Walter…

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Contempt of Court Case of Mrs. Webb Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 June 1921 · page 5

Application was to-day made to Mr. Justice James, in Chambers, on behalf of Nina Alice Webb, married weman, to make absolute a rule nisl…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1921 · page 9

In the matter of Phillip Henry Hero, judgment creditor, and Albert Laffley, judgment debtor, H. Pogonoski, garnishee, Mr. E. Nelson appeared on behalf of…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M., and Dr. W. Nickson)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1921 · page 9

Booth licenses were granted to: Susan Hyde, licensee of the Terminus Hotel, Newcastle, for the Newcastle Show Ground on July 2; to Samuel Miller,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, June 29. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 June 1921 · page 7

The bond of one person charged with drunkenness for the first time was forfeited, and another first offender was fined 5s, or three hours' imprisonment. James Boyd (35),…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, June 30. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 July 1921 · page 2

Three persons, who had been locked up for drunkenness, and admitted to bail did not appear. Their bonds were forfeited. Richard M'Groder, 35, labourer, for improper…

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