Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Wed 5 Dec 1917 ¹

NEWCASTLE QUARTER SESSIONS.
——–—•———–
Tuesday, December 4.
———
(Before His Honor Judge Fitzhardinge.)

    Mr AF Dawson for the Crown.

REMANDED FOR SENTENCE.

    Adolf Mesak, a Russian, pleaded guilty to a charge of maliciously wounding John George Thomas at Newcastle on November 6, and was remanded for sentence.

    John William Chappelow, a youth, admitted breaking and entering a shop in Guyra, and stealing a watch, a ring, a hat, a pair of boots, a rifle, a waterproof coat, and 1000 cartridges on November 4, and was remanded for sentence.

NOT GUILTY

    James William French, an old man, denied that he committed an improper offence, [bestiality with a mare], at Oak Range. The jury gave a verdict of not guilty, and French was discharged.

¹     Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Wed 5 Dec 1917, p. 7. Emphasis added.