Bolshevik Horrors Orgies of Murder
Fresh accounts of flendish Boishevik atrocities are constantly reaching this country, and from sources which leave no question as to their…
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Courts & crime, 1920
1,382 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 70
The Murder of Mr. Bell
Mr. Macpherson, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, replying to Lord Robert Cecil in the House of Commons, said that Mr. Bell was not under police protection at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, March 31. (Before Mr. A. Gates, A.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
For having been drunk in Scott-street, James Morrison (42) was fined 5s, or in default 24 hours' imprisonment, while John Mack (36), fireman, was fined 10s,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coogee Murder. Evidence for the Defence. Sydney
The trial of John Meagher (34), on a charge of murdering his wife, Marjorie Kathleen Meagher, at Coogee, on November 20 last, entered upon its third day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small Debts Court. Wickham Council Rates
W. Tweedle, representing the Wickham Council, proceeded against a number of ratepayers who had failed to pay their rates. Verdicts were given in favour of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Retrospective Awards. High Court's Judgment. Sydney
The Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration has power to make retrospective awards, giving back pay up to the date of the expiration of an old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Divorce Court to Altars Movie Stars Re-marry VARCOUVER
Mary Pi[?] and Douglas Fairbanka have [?] married. The Ne[?] pa[?] Attorley-General announce [?] that he is looking a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, April 1. (Before Mr. A. Gates, A.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Two first offenders, charged with having been drunk, had their bonds forfeited, while two others were each fined 2s 6d. Patrick Moloney (40), bricklayer,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coogee Murder. Meagher Found Not Guilty. Sydney
The trial of John Meagher (34), on a charge of murdering his wife, Marjorie Kathleen Meagher, at Coogee, on November 20 last, was concluded at the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Attack on Irish Police
Between fifty and a hundred men attacked the police barracks at Durrow, in Queen's County, at midnight, and dropped petrol explosives down the…
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Sir. Justice M'Arthur, in the Melbourne Criminal Court (writes the Melbourne "Argus"), put the commonsense view of police methods for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hunter St. Burglary Stationer's Shop Broken
Burglars entered the stationery shop of Sir, Fredrick Croft, Hunter street West, during the week-end and got away with about £25 worth of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, April 3. (Before Mr. S. H. Hungerford, J.P.) Remanded
Patrick Shannon, charged with having been drunk and disorderly, and with unlawfully assaulting Constable H. D. Brodle, while in the execution of his duty,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court
At the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, before Mr. A. G. Chiplin, J.P., James Morrison (42), miner, James Deans (58), cook, and Ebenezer Gilroy (45), labourer,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →40 Years' Gaol For I.W.W. Rioters VANCOUVER
Seven I.W.W. men were sentenced to 25 to 40 years' imprisonment for murder in connection with the famous Armistice Day riot at Chehalis,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Irish Lawlessness. Sinn Fein Outrages. Incendiarism and Murder. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
The alarmist predictions of an Irish rising at Easter have apparently dwindled to an unforeseen but carefully planned programme of destruction of Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Out Again—in Again Regulars at the Court
Some men set into the habit of suring regularly, and some have a way of going to the movies at stated times, while others find themselves…
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Mr. J. B. Scobie, J.P., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Charles Dwyer and Herbert Norman…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, April 6. (Before Mr. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Eight first of [?]nders, charged with having been drunk, had their bonds forfeited, while another was fined 5s, John Clark (55), labourer, was fined 20s, or in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Constantinople Murder
It is reported from Constantinople that two Russian officers assassinated General Denikin's Chief of Staff, General Romanoviki, at the Russia Embassy in…
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