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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1923

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Rejected Lover Cheered by Crowd Attempted Murder Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 15 January 1923 · page 5

Details of a lovers' quarrel ware heard at High Wycombe Police Court, England, when William Simpson, a native of King's Lynn, was committed…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 6

Mr. F. W. C. Crane, P.M., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Henry Hall was charged with…

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Magistrate Congratulated

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 5

Newcastle City Council decide last night that a letter of congratulation be sent to Mr. Le Biun Brown, S.M. on his promotion to the metropolitan…

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Sent to Gaol Woman Vagrant

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 4

"You know very well that a gontleman has been keeping me for the past 14 years." This is what Rose Burns (32) told…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 15. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 7

Upon charges of drunkenness. Thomas Fisher (32) and Andrew M'Crimmon (78) were each fined 10s, with the alternative of three days' imprisonment…

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Maitland District. Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 6

The bench at the West Maitland Licensing Court yesterday was occupied by Messrs. F. W. C. Crane, J. W. Birkenhead, and E. Bowden, L.Ms…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 8

Mr. F. W. C. Crane, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. George Filby, for whom Mr. W. S…

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Magistrate's Suspicion Charge Against Miner Third Adjournment

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 4

When Patrick Falling (40) miner, an ex-officer of the C.E.F., was again charged at the Newcastle police court today with having fraudulently omitted to…

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The Police Dog

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 6

Australia, in Victoria, anyhow, has lined up with Continental Europe and America in regard to the employment of dogs for police work. The germ of this…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, January 16. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Remanded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 10

George Henry Palmer, 27, and Harry Crossoomb, 32, were charged with the thefts of a 10s note and a £1 note respectively from the person of Cornelius…

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Hit with Hammer Passenger Attacked Assault in Train MELBOURNE

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 3

Shouts of "Help!" and "Murder!" came from the carriage of an electric train shortly after it left Auburn at 7 o'clock last night. The motorman…

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Assault and Abuse Brutal Attack on Guardsmen Tyrannical Turks Haggling at Lausanne LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 5

REUTER'S CONSTANTI-NOPLE CORRESPONDENT STATES THAT TURKS MURDEROUSLY ASSAULTED TWO…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw and Dr. W. Nickson, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 10

Booth licenses were granted to Samuel Miller, licenses of the Great Northern Hotel, Wallsend, for the Wallsend races on January 20, and to James Chas,…

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France Resorts to Force Court Martial for Coal Barons Germany's Further Default Confiscation of Mines Likely London

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 1

France has ordered the owners of Ru[?]r coal to commence deliveries on Wednesday. Otherwise they will be court-martiailed and the sanctions imposed. A Paris message states that the carrying out of the…

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Kurri Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 6

Mr. F. W. C. Crane, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday. Thomas Hopes, licensee of the Neath…

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Murder of Christians

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 5

It is reported from Constantinople that an Adana newspaper states that the Turks executed thirty-eight Christians, who were found attempting to escape in a…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, January 17. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S. M.) Attempted Suicide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 7

Finlay Glen Campbell, 37, was charged with attempting to commit suicide at Newcastle on January 14. Constable Fardy stated that at 8 a.m. on Sunday…

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Robbed of £90 Harding's Plight Gun Alley Murder Echo LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 1

What has happened to Sydney John Harding, an important witness in the Gun-alley murder case? A person of the same name, but…

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Miners in Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 5

Three of the South Greta miners who went to gaol rather than pay a fine inflicted by Mr. Crane, P.M., were released from East Maitland gaol yesterday. Five…

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Larkin Out of Gaol VANCOUVER

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 4

A message from Albany states that James Latkin, the Irish agitator, who has served two years of a five years' term of imprisonment on a criminal…

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