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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,382 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 70
Johannes Lager (11), cook, was charged with having behaved in a disorderly manner on board the American schooner Resolute, lying in Port Hunter. Mr. Reid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the present moment there seems to be a considerable number of criminals moving up and down New Zealand. There have been quite a large number of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In the Sydney Police Court, a man has been charged with snatching a bag containing £104, and making off in a motor car…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. G. Atkin, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Clive John Killin was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Dublin magistrate, Mr. Allan Bell, has been assassinated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →William Bougham (31), ship's storekeeper, was charged with having stolen from the steamer Kent eight tins of jam, two tins of condensed milk, three tins of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Newcastle Police Court on Saturday before Mr. A. G. Chiplin, J.P., two first offenders, charged with having been drunk, had their bonds forfeited. Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Charles Arthur Pearson (17), laborer, was fined 20s, or seven days, before Mr. Gates, S.M., at the Newcastle Court to-day, for stealing coal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The trial of John Meagher, who is charged with the murder of his wife, Marjorie Kathleen Meagher, at Coombe Flat, Coogee, on November…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Joshua Weirs (65) was charged, before Mr. J. B. Scobic, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court, yesterday, that, at Sydnel, between September 10, 1916, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three first offenders, charged with having been drunk, had their bonds forfeited, while another was fined 2s 6d. William M'Milian (20), porter, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The trial of John Meagher, 34 years of age, on a charge of wilfully murdering his wife, Marjorie Kathleen Meagher, at Coombe Flais, Coogee, on November 20…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The trial of John Meagher on a charge of having murdered his wife, Marjory Kathleen Meagher, at Coombo Flats, Coogee, on November…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following were granted renewals of publicans' licenses:—Annie White, National Hotel, Wallsend; John Taylor, Ocean View Hotel, Dudley; Frank Burden,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Diamonds and clothing valued at 2,800 were stolen from Mrs. Kitty [?]tar's flat, Regal flats. Beach street, Coogee yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It appears that Mr. Bell, the murdered magistrate, had presided at the recent inquiry into the attack on Lord French. Fuller details show that his murder was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Patrick Maloney (40), bricklayer, was fined 10s, or in default three days' imprisonment for having been drunk in Hunter-street. Alexander Johnson (53),…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The trial of John Meagher (34), on a charge of wilfully murdering his wife, Kathleen Meagher, was continued at the Central Criminal Court this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Meagher trial was continued to-day, when the case for the defence was resumed. The court was again crowded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The case against Zarl Berg, who had been charged with, while being an alien, having failed to give notice of his place of abode, was withdrawn. Inspector Hood…
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