Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Wed 11 Oct 1899 ¹

NEWCASTLE POLICE COURT.
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Tuesday, October 10.
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(Before Mr CN Payten, SM.)
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DRUNKENNESS.

    Samuel Quakem and Ernest Unland were each fined 5s, in default an hour’s gaol, for drunkenness at Stockton on the night of the 9th instant.

WITHOUT LEAVE.

    John Anderson, arrested for having without leave absented himself from the barque Oimara, was ordered to be sent on board.

DEEMED INSANE.

    James Mahoney, the Medic fireman who on Monday jumped overboard, was brought before the Court deemed to be insane, and ordered to be sent to the Gladesville Asylum.

A SERIOUS CHARGE.

    Charles Howe, seaman, was charged with having attempted to commit a serious offence on one Sidney Carrington Barker [aka Sydney Barker], on board the ketch Eva, lying in Newcastle harbour, on the night of the 9th instant.

    Evidence given by several of the witnesses was of a revolting character.

    Senior-Constable Olsen, Sidney Carrington Barker (a boy 12 years old), Francis Matthew Daniels, Dr John Harris, and Charles Anderson (master of the Eva) were the witnesses.

    On the application of Sub-inspector Hinds (who conducted the prosecution), accused was remanded till Friday.

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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Sat 14 Oct 1899 ²

NEWCASTLE POLICE COURT.
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Thursday, October 13.
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(Before Mr CN Payten, SM.)
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DRUNKENNESS.

    Alfred Copeland was fined 5s, with the option of three hours’ gaol, for drunkenness in Hunter-street on the evening of the 12th instant.

VAGRANCY.

    Kate Beale was charged with having insufficient lawful means of support.

    Constables Neill, Ramsay, and Broder said that they had never known accused to work. She was a late and habitual frequenter of the streets, being often half drunk in the company of drunken sailors.

    Accused said that she was a married woman, receiving from her husband £1 a week for her support.

    The SM did not believe the story, and sentenced accused to three months’ imprisonment in Maitland Gaol.

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

    Charles Howe was charged, on remand from the 10th instant, with having, at Newcastle, attempted to commit a serious offence on Sydney Barker.

    Having heard the additional evidence given by Dr Harris, accused was committed for trial at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions on December 6th next.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Mon 4 Dec 1899 ³

QUARTER SESSIONS CALENDAR.

    The calendar for the December sittings of the Newcastle Court of Quarter Sessions, which opens on Wednesday next, is the heaviest on record, no less than 30 cases being set down for hearing. The list is appended:—Arthur Hancock, assault, occasioning actual bodily harm, at Wallsend; Edward Copeland and Henry Toomey, inflicting grievous bodily harm at Newcastle (two charges); James Melville, assault (two charges); Charles Howe, assault; John McQuinney and Joseph Gardiner, stealing from the person at Wallsend; Robert Lawrence, malicious injury to property at Hamilton; Alfred Lane and Albert Gimbert, stealing (two charges); Ming Sun, John Chong Yow, alias Young, Ah Sume, and Pun Chong, keeping a pak-a-pu lottery at Newcastle; James O’Brien, stealing from the person; John Anderson, inflicting grievous bodily harm at Stockton; Ernest Weaver, attempted suicide; Daniel Dixon, alias Denis or William Rogan, stealing (two charges); Callil Melick, assault, occasioning actual bodily harm; John Banker and George Bowery, assault and robbery; Alfred Johnson, assault; Albert Partridge, stealing.

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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Thu 7 Dec 1899 ⁴

NEWCASTLE QUARTER SESSIONS.
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December 6.
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(Before his Honor Judge Docker.)
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    The Newcastle Quarter Sessions for December were opened yesterday before his Honor Judge Docker, Mr HH Lang, the recently-appointed Deputy Sheriff for the district occupying a seat on the Bench.

    Mr AB Piddington prosecuted for the Crown. The legal gentlemen present were: Messrs W Tighe, R Cowan, Atlee Hunt, AC Millard, and AR Watt, barristers; Messrs H Brown, RW Thompson, WH Baker, Julian Windeyer, WA Reid, W Moore, GW Mitchell, AH James, TA Braye, T Cronin, HV Harris, TD O’Sullivan, solicitors.

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NEW JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
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    Before the business of the Court was entered upon the following gentlemen were sworn in as Justices of the Peace:—Alfred Timbury, Mayor of Newcastle; George Leitch, of Cardiff; Hudson Berkeley, of Newcastle; James Gray, Mayor of Adamstown; Robt McCann, Mayor of Carrington; William Cann, alderman of Newcastle; James Ryan, of Cockle Creek; John Welford, of Tighe’s Hill; WR Alexander, Mayor of Hamilton; Isaac Winn, of Mayfield; Stanley Wm Smith, sen, of Fullerton Cove, near Williamtown; Canute Brooks of Wamberal, near Gosford; George Edward Eardy, of Lambton; Lot Bishop, of Raymond Terrace, and George William Browne, of Salt Ash.

    His Honor congratulated the new justices, and expressed the hope that their services would be of benefit to the people.
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A SERIOUS CHARGE.
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THE ACCUSED REMANDED
FOR SENTENCE.
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    Charles Howe, a seaman, belonging to the Eva, was found guilty of an attempt to commit a serious offence on one Sydney Carrington Barker, a boy about 10 years of age. He was remanded for sentence.

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Sunday Times, Sun 10 Dec 1899 ⁵

SESSIONAL SENTENCES.
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(By Wire—From Our Own Correspondent.)

Newcastle, Saturday Night.

    His Honor Judge Docker, at the Quarter Sessions to-night sentenced prisoners who had been found guilty as follows:—
    Chas Howe, indecent assault at Newcastle, four years penal servitude;

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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Mon 11 Dec 1899 ⁶

NEWCASTLE QUARTER SESSIONS.
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December 9.
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(Before His Honor Judge Docker.)
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    The hearing of the remainder of the unusually heavy list of cases was begun at 9 am by his Honor Judge Docker, who was accompanied on the bench by Mr HH Lang, the Deputy-Sheriff.

    The attendance of the public was small, the majority of those present in court being counsel, solicitors, jurymen, and examined witnesses.

    A number of business men were inconvenienced by having to be in attendance as jurors, and his Honor expressed regret that they should have been inconvenienced by the necessity for a Saturday sitting. The list, his Honor said, had been an exceptionally heavy one, and as the weather was enervating he sympathised with jurors.

    Messrs A Dalton and H Hingst, jurors, who stated that they had urgent business to attend to, were excused from attendance.

    Mr AB Piddington again prosecuted for the Crown.
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SENTENCES.
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SERIOUS OFFENCE.

    Charles Howe, seaman of the ketch Eva, who was on the opening day of the Sessions, found guilty of having attempted to commit a serious offence on Sydney Carrington Barker, a boy about 10 years of age, was sentenced to four years’ penal servitude.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Mon 11 Dec 1899 ⁷

THE QUARTER SESSIONS.
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    The sittings of the Newcastle Court of Quarter Sessions, which opened on Wednesday last, were resumed before Judge Docker yesterday. Mr AB Piddington prosecuted on behalf of the Crown.
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    Charles Howe, convicted of a serious offence, was sentenced to four years’ penal servitude.

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Charles Howe, Gaol photo sheet ⁸ 

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Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details

No. 1154
Maitland

Date when Portrait was taken: 14-12-1899

Name: Charles Howe
(aka Carl Howe)

Native place: Prussia Year of birth: 1849 Arrived       Ship: Star of Peace in Colony }   Year: 1869 Trade or occupation previous to conviction  } Cook & Seaman Religion: Lutheran Education, degree of: R & W Height: 5' 3¼" Weight     On committal: 10 st in lbs     } On discharge: Colour of hair: Brown to Grey Colour of eyes: Brown

Marks or special features: Fracture of right upper jaw, & also of the left collar bone

(No. of previous Portrait ... )  CONVICTIONS
Where and When				Offence.	Sentence
WPO Port Macquarie  ditto WPO ditto Central PO ditto ditto  Newcastle Q.S	29 29 29   2   2 18 13 13 16   6	8 12 12   6   6   3 11 11   5 12	1883 1886 1886 1892 1892 1892 1894 1894 1895 1899	Absent from ship 1) Refusing to quit an Hotel 2) Assault 1) Injure property 2) Assault Obscene language 1) Maliciously injure 2) Assault Indecent language Attempt to commit Buggery	4 weeks H.L. 4 months imprisonment 2 days imprisonment   |  Concurrent 14 days C 4 weeks H.L.  |  Cumulative 20/- or 14 days C £3 or 2 months C £2 or 21 days C    |  Cumulative 20/- or 10 days C 4 years P.S.

 

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¹     Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Wed 11 Oct 1899, p. 7. Emphasis added.

²     Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Sat 14 Oct 1899, p. 6. Emphasis added.

³     The Sydney Morning Herald, Mon 4 Dec 1899, p. 5. Emphasis added.

⁴     Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Thu 7 Dec 1899, p. 3.

⁵     Sunday Times, (Sydney, NSW), Sun 10 Dec 1899, p. 7.

⁶     Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Mon 11 Dec 1899, p. 6.

⁷     The Sydney Morning Herald, Mon 11 Dec 1899, p. 5.

⁸     SRNSW: NRS2327, [3/5987], Maitland Gaol photographic description book, 1875-1930, No. 1154, p. 212, R5130. Emphasis added.

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