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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,382 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 70
Zoe May Price, 34, pleaded guilty to being an idle and disorderly person without any lawful means of support, and with having used insulting words to Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →George Henry Lott (35), foreman, and James Yonnie Russell (27), farmer, on remand; were charged with, at Port Waratah, on or about April 9, 1920, stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →George Street (55), bookmaKer, appeared before the Newcastle Court this morning, charged with having frequented a public place, Hunter-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Victorian police are dissatisfied with their present rate of pay. This disatisfaction is accentuated in the case of married members of the force, whose wives…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Some stevedores in Newcastle complain that they have been called upon to pay 9d a head for wharf laborers engaged through the Port Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. G. Atkin presided in the Warden's Court at East Maitland yesterday, when John Brown applied for authority to enter a 40-acre block of land owned and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The result of the Queen of the Day competition in connection with the carnival in aid of the Newcastle District Sailors and Soldiers' Memorial…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Harold James M'Clintock, formerly secretary of the Norton Estate, was sentenced to three years' hard labor on a charge of stealing a cheque for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s, or detention until the rising of the Court. Patrick Ryan, 45, labouror, was fined 5s, in default, 3…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For a long time the Newcastle Children's Court has been held in a house in the middle of a terrace in Church-street. There are no conveniences or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. G. Atkin, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Albert Phillips was charged, on remand,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Edwin Alfred Wynne, of Stockton, proceeded against William Koll, also of Stockton, for unlawful assault on April 26. Defendant pleaded guilty. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is reported from Cairo that a bomb was thrown at Hussein Bey, Minister for Pious Foundations, as he was motoring to his home, accompanied by two Judges…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A message from Los Angelos states that "Bluebeard" Hui[?] pleaded guilty to murdering five of his wives, and was sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six persons, who had been locked up for drunkenness and admitted to ball, did not appear, and their bonds were ordered to be forfeited. Another first offender,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Maitland District Court was opened, yesterday, at the Courthouse, East Maitland, before His Honor Acting Judge Mocatta…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →While motoring to his office this morning Lieut. Col,sir George Steward, Chief Commissioner of Police, was accidently killed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →James Miller, for whom Mr. Nelson appeared, was charged at the Newcastle Police Court this afternoon with having assaulted and used…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The bond of a first offender, who had been locked up for drunkenness, and did not appear, was ordered to be forfeited. Richard Pearce, 39, labourer, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Le Brun Brown, S.M., announced in the Newcastle Court this morning that in future the Small Debts Court would be heard on Tuesday…
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