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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

2,043 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 103

Gaol Authorities New Appointments Approved SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 August 1925 · page 5

At a meeting of the executive council to-day Mr. W. F. Hinchey, inspector of prisons, was appointed deputy comptroller…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, August 4. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 August 1925 · page 11

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, who did not appear, had his bond forfeited. William Wavell, 40, who was also dealt with as a first offender for…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 August 1925 · page 11

The license of the Star Hotel, Newcastle, was transferred from Lena Elsie Campbell to Mervyn Heyes Atkins. Mr. C. A. K. Cohen appeared in support of…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M.) To Pay by Instalments

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 August 1925 · page 11

Applications to pay by instalments were granted in the following cases:— Pryor Brothers, of Wickham, v. James McEwan, of Veda-street, Hamilton, 7s 6d…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, August 5. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 August 1925 · page 8

Norman Mathieson, 28, was fined £2, in default, 14 days' imprisonment, for drunkenness, and £3, in default, a month's imprisonment, for using improper language…

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Appeals Dismissed Strikes and Compensation' Full Court Case Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 6 August 1925 · page 5

The appeals of South Greta Colliery, Ltd., and Hebburn, Ltd., against the judgment of the State Full Court in refusing to disturb a decision of…

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Miners' Compensation Question of Average Earnings. Appeal to High Court Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 August 1925 · page 4

The litigation in connection with the basis on which compensation should be paid to Samuel Collins, by the South Greta Colliery, Ltd., and to John…

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Trial of Absentee Ex-Sultan Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 1

CONSTANTINOPLE, Thursday. The trial has commenced at Angora of the ex-Sultan of Turkey, who is living in Switzerland…

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Wallsend Police Court Thursday, August 6. (Before Mr. J L. Shropshire, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 2

Thomas Treay, Robert Joseph Johnson, Mathew Johnson, Thomas Peel, and Thomas Parsons were charged with having played a game to the annoyance of the…

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Newcastle Police Court Thursday, August 6. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 9

One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s, or 24 hours. James M'Carthy, 24, was fined 10s, or three days, and Thomas Williams, 30,…

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Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 2

In a garnishee matter, Austin Keith Lovett, judgment creditor, Claude Barry, Judgment debtor, and Joseph Mitchell garnishee, the lastnamed stated that he…

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Miners' Compensation Case High Court's Decision Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 5

The High Court to-day dismissed the appeals by the South Greta Colliery, Limited, and Hebburn, Limited from the decision of the Supreme Court of New…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, District Registrar.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 9

Re Sedgley Henry Daniel Webb, blacksmith, of Newtown, Hamilton. Assets £48, liabilities £150 4s 9d. R. Swan and W. J. Ackroyd were present,…

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Maitland District East Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 6

Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.M., presided at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. Allan Keith Yarsley was charged with…

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Arbitration Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 12

Some concern is being felt in industrial circles about the proposed alteration of the Arbitration Court. It is to be changed to the Board of Trade and…

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Newcastle Police Court Friday, August 7. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 3

One first offender was dealt with for drunkenness. Declared Insane. When the case of Sidney Rupert…

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Dynamiting Fish Poachers Defy Police Serious Damage

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 4

Ruthless "dynamiting" by fish poachers in Lake Macquarie is ono of the causes of the diminution of angling that made lakeside resorts…

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Islington Row Police Court Sequel Steelworker Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 August 1925 · page 5

The soquel to the disturbance outside a house in Winston on Saturday night was hoard in the Newcastle Police Court to-day…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 August 1925 · page 2

At the Newcastle Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M., two first offenders, who had been locked up for drunkenness and admitted…

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David Winkler Free Was Sentenced to Death Cabinet's Reprieve Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 August 1925 · page 5

Cabinet to-day decided to release David Winkter, who was recently sentenced to death on a charge of having been an…

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