£25,000 in Forgeries Norman Astor Sentenced Three Years' Hard Labor SYDNEY
Norman Astor, who pleaded guilty on three charges of forgery in connection with the forged £5 note case was brought up for sentence this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1918
1,094 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 55
Industrial Court. Newcastle Coal Trimmers
In the Industrial Court at Newcastle yesterday, His Honor Judge Curlewis continued the hearing of an application for preference, made by the Newcastle…
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The application by the Newcastle Coal Trimmers' Union for a variation or amendment of the award of the Transport Group No. 23 (coal Lumpers' Newcastle Board),…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Assault Case Fails
John Edward Jones, this morning, at the Newcastle Police Court, sought to recover damages from Abraham North, of Broadmeadow, for an assault alleged to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambton Police Court. Thursday, March 21. (Before Mr. Gates, D.S.M.)
The cases of Mary Scott versus Mollie Hughes, for alleged insulting language, and a cross summons Hughes against Scott, were further adjourned for a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, March 21. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.)
Robert Walsh (45) and John Lewis (40), greasers, pleaded guilty to having been disorderly on board the vessel Strabo, at Newcastle, on March 20. Walsh, who had…
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C. R. Maguire and Company, of Waterloo, Sydney, summoned M. Light and Son, claiming the sum of £2 2s for goods alleged to have been sold and delivered to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Municipal Appeal Court
The manager of the Perpetual Trustee Company, for the trustees of the Chinchen Estate, appealed against the municipal assessment on land situated in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Industrial Court. Newcastle Coaltrimmers
In the Industrial Court at Newcastle yesterday, His Honor Judge Curlewis continued the hearing of an application for preference, made by the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Trimmers' Preference Arbitration Court Hearing Conclusion of Evidence
The hearing or the Newcastle Coal Trimmers' claim for preference was resumed this morning, before Judge Curlewis. Mr. Windeyer, for the Newcastle Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Theft of Money
John Seymour, 31, labourer, was, at Newcastle Police Court this morning, remanded until Monday on a charge of having stolen the sum of £6 8s, the property of John…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, March 22. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Drunkenness
One first offender, charged with drunkenness, had his bond estreated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court Martialled. a Legislator-Conscript. WELLINGTON
Webb has been courtmartialled for refusing to obey orders after having been taken to camp compulsorily. He has been sentenced to two years' hard labor. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Industrial Matters. Industrial Court. Newcastle Coal Trimmers
In the Industrial Court at Newcastle yesterday, His Honor Judge Curlewis continued the hearing of an application for preference, made by the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The British Rock Stands Firm Against Assault Desperate Infantry Attacks Battle on Fifty Mile Front No Objectives Attained Heavy Enemy Losses LONDON
Sir Douglas Haig reports: "Fighting continued until late last night along the whole front from the River Oise to the River Sensee. Our troops continued to hold the enemy in their battle positions. "During yesterday's attacks the enemy's massed infantry offered remarkable targets to our…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Someone in the Room Returned Soldier Charged
At the Newcastle Police Court this morning, John Seymour, a returned soldier, living at 42 Scott-street, was charged, before Mr. Gates, D.S.M., with having stolon £6…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, March 23. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Drunkenness
Sophy Selwyn (32), married, and Jean M'Carthy (33), married, were each fined 5s, with the alternative of 48 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrong Man in Gaol Affidavit Not Acted Upon Broken Hill
Six weeks ago, J. B. Mason made an affidavit, which was sent to the Minister for Justice, in which be declared that he performed an act at the Broken Hill North…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder of Rasputin "Nobody Must Suffer" Russian Revolution Methods
If Alexandro Dumas pere has not invented Rasputin somewhere in his many novels, be ought to have done so, is the reflection of a best-seller author who was regretting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Soldier Court-Martialled. SYDNEY
At a field general court-martial held at sea on February 25, Private E. A. Oxley, No. 2 Company, 5th Pioneers, A.I.F., was found guilty of drunkenness and striking a…
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