Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Mon 25 Jan 1926 ¹

    OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.—Benjamin Price, 40, painter, was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment on a charge of having behaved in an offensive manner. The sentence was suspended upon Price entering into a surety of £20.

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The Newcastle Sun, Mon 25 Jan 1926 ²

ISLINGTON SCHOOL
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Kindergarten Wanted
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    OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.—Benjamin Price, 40, painter, was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment on a charge of having behaved in an offensive manner. The sentence was suspended upon Price entering into a surety of £20.

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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Tue 26 Jan 1926 ³

NEWCASTLE POLICE COURT.
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Monday, January 25.
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(Before Mr JL Shropshire, SM.)

DRUNKENNESS, Etc.

    A first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s or 24 hours’ imprisonment, and two other persons, who did not appear, had their bonds forfeited. For having behaved in improper manner in Watt-street, Newcastle. James Watters was fined £2, in default one month’s imprisonment. Benjamin Price (40), a painter, pleaded guilty to a charge of improper behaviour [expose his person] on the Newcastle beach on January 23, and was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment, sentence being suspended on the defendant entering into recognisances of self and a surety each in £20, or two sureties in £10 each, to be of good behaviour for twelve months.

¹     Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Mon 25 Jan 1926, p. 4.

²     The Newcastle Sun, (NSW), Mon 25 Jan 1926, p. 4.

³     Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Tue 26 Jan 1926, p. 7. Emphasis added.