Roumania and the War. a Court Intrigue
An interesting account of divded counsels and dramatic events at the Roumanian Court during the last days of King Carol has been published by the "Novoe…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1915
798 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 40
Cooranbong Police Court. Friday, January 8. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, Acting S.M.)
Thomas Stanley Lord was proceeded against by Constable Singleton for that he did, on the 30th November last, at Morisset, steal one cant hook, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, January 9. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, S.M.) Drunkenness
Horace Farrell (24), Robert Irwin (45), labourers, and Joseph Irwin (46), labourer were each fined 10s, with the option of 24 hours' imprisonment, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder of Priests. German Brutality. London
The Belgian Legation has issued a record of the maltreatment of Catholic clergy in Belgium, including the case of an invalid octogenarian at Buechen, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Police Court. Monday, January [?]
Patrick Joseph Tierney, licensee of the Terminus Hotel, Wallsend, was charged with being the licensee of licensed promises upon which one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 11
Two first offenders on charges of drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of detention for five minutes. For using improper language, in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Small Debts Court
In the Small Debts Court, Charles Anderson sued A. Harrison for 18s, rest alleged to be due. Plaintiff stated that he was the agent for Mr. R. Thomas, is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charlestown Police Court. Tuesday, January 12. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)
William M'Lare, for being drunk and disorderly at Dudley, was fined 20s, with costs 6s. Henry Williams, sen., for a similar offence at Dudley, was fined 40s,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, January 12. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, S.M.) Drunkenness
One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. Vagrancy…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Murder of a Girl. Perth
In an isolated orchard homestead near Karrinup, 66 miles from Perth, a girl named Jean Bell, aged 12, sleeping alone on the verandah of a house, occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratah Police Court. Wednesday, January 13. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.)
Claude Davis, charged by Ins[?] Wrightson, with having driven a vehicle a lorry on the footpath in Maitland-road Waratah, was fined 10s, with costs 6s, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, January 13. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, S.M.) Minor Offences
One first offender, on a charge of drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, with the alternative of five minutes' detention. May Hills (30), on a charge of improper…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →State Police Reform. Mr. Cann's Proposal. Sydney
Mr. Cann, the State Chief Secretary, made a statement to-day regarding a change of system in the Police Department, dealing chiefly with the work of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Western Miners Pay Appeal to Arbitration Court. Sydney
The serious effect resulting from the war was given as a reason for the reduction of wags by three western companies which applied to Mr. Justice Edmunds, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, January 14. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, D.S.M.) Begging Aims
Eunice Saxon (45), married, was charged with, on 13th, January, begging alms in Bolton-street. She pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 24 hours imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Greta Police Court. Wednesday, January 13. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., and Mr. B. Pryor, J.P.)
The case of William Bills v. Robert Hunter, alleged damage to property, which had been adjourned on two occasions, to allow of the parties to come to a mutual…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bankruptcy Court. Thursday, January 14. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, District Registrar.) Single Meeting
A single meeting of creditors and examination of bankrupt was held in the matter of Andrew Thomas Anderson; Bourke-street, Carrington,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, January 14. (Before Messrs. O. A. Edwards and C. Hibble, L.Ms.)
Renewal of a colonial wine license was granted, to Bernard M. O'Beirne, Beaumont-street, Hamilton. Approval was given to an application…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Ruahine Murder
Rottmann, the young German suspected of murdering a farmer named M'Canu and his wife and child was run to earth at Terawhiti, a rough part of the Cook…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charged with Treason. New Zealand Case
According to Auckland files that came to hand by the Nlagara, the community is greatly concerned about the sentence of five years' hard labour imposed by a…
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