Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Tue 6 Dec 1892 1
QUARTER SESSIONS.
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FIRST DAY.
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(Before Judge Wilkinson.)
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The December sittings of the Newcastle Quarter Sessions commenced at 10 o’clock yesterday morning.
Mr W Bevan prosecuted for the Crown, and the following members of the legal profession were present:— Barristers: Messrs BR Wise, Atlee A Hunt, and WH Mocatta; solicitors: Messrs RW Thompson, WA Reid, CW Readett, TF Low, AJ Gorrick, GW Millard, WH Baker, J Windeyer, WH Sparke, and W Mitchell.
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NEW MAGISTRATES.
When the Judge had taken his seat the following gentlemen were sworn in as justices of the peace:—John Rollo Rodgers, Walter Herbert Dibbs, Alfred Harnett Clapin, Hugh Humphreys, Arthur William McMath, Michael Murray, Henry Rushton, Thomas Henry Pearce, George Buxton, John O’Mara, John Richard Hall, John Burke, Arthur Lydney Payne, Robert Durie, and William Thomas Gibb.
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UNNATURAL OFFENCE.
A young man named Walter Hicks pleaded guilty to a charge that he did at Dungog, on the 10th October last, commit an unnatural offence [on Herbert Lloyd, 4 years of age].
The prisoner was remanded for sentence.
At this stage the Court adjourned till 10 o’clock the following morning.
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Tue 6 Dec 1892 2
QUARTER SESSIONS.
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FOURTH DAY.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8.
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(Before Judge Wilkinson.)
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Mr Walter Bevan prosecuted for the Crown.
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A HEAVY SENTENCE.
Walter Hicks, who pleaded guilty on the first day to a charge of having committed an unnatural offence on a little child at Dungog on the 10th of October last, was brought up for sentence.
The Judge said that the circumstances of the crime were so abominable that he would say nothing about it. He then sentenced the young man to five years’ penal servitude, with one whipping of 16 lashes. His Honor said that he could not fix the time or place, but he hoped that the lashing would take place in January.
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Barrier Miner, Fri 9 Dec 1892 3
INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.
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(By Telegraph.)
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Sydney, Friday.
Walter Hicks, who was found guilty of indecently assaulting a child of tender years at Newcastle, yesterday, was sentenced to five years and 16 lashes.
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The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal, Fri 9 Dec 1892 4
TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.
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(From Our Correspondent.)
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Sydney, Friday.
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HE GOT HIS REWARD.
At the Newcastle Quarter Sessions a youth named Hicks was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude and 16 lashes for indecently assaulting a child.
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Walter Hicks, Gaol photo sheet 5
![SRNSW: NRS2138, [5/1697], Darlinghurst Gaol photographic description book, 1878-1897, No. 865, p. 69, R5097.](../../images/trials/1892-Hicks-1697-gaol-photo-865.jpg "SRNSW: NRS2138, [5/1697], Darlinghurst Gaol photographic description book, 1878-1897, No. 865, p. 69, R5097.") |
Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details
No. 865
Date when Portrait was taken: 1st November 1892
Name: Walter Hicks
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Native place: N.C. Dungog Year of birth: 1872 Arrived Ship: Trade or occupation Religion: Wesleyan Education, degree of: R & W Height: 5' 2¼" Weight On committal: 140 Colour of hair: Brown Colour of eyes: Brown Marks or special features: Nil |
Where and when tried: Newcastle Q.S. Offence: Buggery Sentence: 5 years P.S. & 1 whipping of 16 lashes Remarks: Whipping was inflicted at Maitland Gaol on 12th December 1892. Discharged by Remission 3/10/1896 |
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1 Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Tue 6 Dec 1892, p. 7.
2 Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Tue 6 Dec 1892, p. 7.
3 Barrier Miner, Fri 9 Dec 1892, p. 3.
4 The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal, Fri 9 Dec 1892, p. 3.
5 SRNSW: NRS2138, [5/1697], Darlinghurst Gaol photographic description book, 1878-1897, No. 865, p. 69, R5097.