Boy Runaways Why Do They Go? Police Find Them Often
The runaway habits of small boys whom one would not credit with having the sense to want to travel constitute a phenomenon with which policemen are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1918
1,094 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 30 of 55
Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.)
Verdicts for the plaintiffs were given in the following cases:—Low Yow versus—Stewart, 12s 9d, paid into court. Hamilton Council versus Robert Turton,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, July 5. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Sophia Sparks, alias Selwyn, 32, was charged with having been drunk in King-street, Newcastle; a further charge of having used improper language was also preferred against…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Libel of Kuhlmann the Bucharest Ballet Court Case Opened LONDON, Friday Night
Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam telegraphs that Baron von Kuhlmann's libel action against Herr Lahan, editor of "Deutche Zeitung," and Kerr Duncke…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, July 6. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d with the alternative of two hours' detention. Without License…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Athlete's Knock-out Failure in Court
Harry Stone, who described himself as [?] professional athlete, and is well-known as a lightweight boxer, and his trainer, William Stevens, were both injured on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Moscow Murder
It is reported from Paris that M. Kerensky, referring to the assassination in Moscow of Count von Mirbach, the German Ambassador, while he deplored the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, July 8. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Drunkenness
Annie Shepherd (34), married, was fined 5s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk in Veda-street, Hamilton. Willoughby Sutton (55), labourer,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Brutal Bolsheviks Murder and Rapine Overrun Central Asia LONDON, Monday night
"The Times" correspondent at Pekin states that the Russian consuls for Chinese Turkestan describe the wanton savagery and ruthless greed of the armed Boisheviks, who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Moscow Murder
It is reported from Moscow that two unknown men requested an interview with Count von Mirbach, the German Ambassador bassader, on the pretext of presenting a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder of the Late Czar
It is reported from Copenhagen that the latest Russian newspapers and special information received by the "Politiken" confirm the news of the murders of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, July 9. (Before Mr. C. F. Buther, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness were each fined 2s 6d, in default an hours' imprisonment. Another was fined 2s 6d, in default imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Allied Force. to Police Russia
The United Press reports that it is authoritatively announced that America will send to Russia an economic mission supported by a police force of Allied…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Signal for Revolt Murder of Mirbach Violent German Anger LONDON, Tuesday Night
Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam states that from Berlin comes a report that the murdered Ambassador. Count von Mirbach, sheltered in a building occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Moscow Murder
Messages received in Amsterdam from Moscow state that the assassins of Count von Mirbach, the German Ambassador, fled to a building occupied by the Social…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, July 10. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.) Drunkenness
Two first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness, and their bonds forfeited…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Methods Five Hours' Examination
In the Criminal Court in Melbourne, Alfred Nelson Collas, stationmaster, Warburton, was charged with larceny, as a servant of the Hallway Commissioners, of nine lamp…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Russian Ferment Mirbach's Murder Reprisals Feared LONDON, Wednesday night
Telegrams from Russia are mostly coming via Berlin and are scrappy and hazy. Apparently the whole country continues in a ferment. Further fighting has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BAY M.M., v. Morgan Military Police Charged Summons for Assault Question of Jurisdiction
The summons list at the Newcastle Court this morning, before Mr. Butler, S.M., included the hearing of the charge of assault in Hunter-street on June 1, preferred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambton Police Court. Thursday, July 11. (Before Mr. Gale, D.S.M.)
Edward Griffiths, who pleaded guilty to being drunk in Hobart-road, New Lambton, was fined 2s 6d, with 6s court costs. George Barnes, for using improper…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →