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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,748 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 88
Six persons charged with drunkenness for the first time did not appear, and their bonds were forfeited. Frank Stanley, 36, seaman, and Roy Johnston, 28, labourer,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Inspector Cook opposed the transfer of the licence of the Newcastle Rifles Hotel (Junction), from William it. Campbell to Stanley Stack in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →By escaping from the Bathurst Lock-up, by climbing over a 15ft wall, giving the police a chase for about 14 miles, and being brought back part…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the conclusion of the ordinary business at the West Maitland Council last evening, Alderman fry, the mayor, side that he had a report from Mr. Saunders,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Sinn Fein murder at Ashford (Middlesex) has created a sensation. A flying motor squad of Scotland Yard detectives, all skilled revolver shots, are searching…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mrs. Gordon Lowe wife of the famous tennis player, whose arrest for theft caused a society sensation, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The escape of a boy from Bathurst lock-up, and the failure of the mounted police to capture him after leading them over a 14-mile course, calls…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four persons charged with drunkenness for the first time had their bail deposits forfeited. Benjamin Kyles, 36, labourer, was fined 5s, or twenty-four hours'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two boys of 16, William Jones and Harold Thompson, were charged with offences before the Newcastle Court to-day. The only evidence for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An extraordinary story was told in the Newcastle Court to-day when William Charles Keevers was charged with behaving improperly towards a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →James Moth Morris by his agent, Alfred Francis Hall, had four applications before the court for authority to enter a total aereage of approximately 3000 acres,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It transpires that the patient who escaped from the train at Deepwater, and was subsequently handed over to the Glen police, gave the local…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Cohen asked that the application by Hannah Sussman for the transfer of the license of the Hotel Mayfield from Maurice Sussman be further adjourned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →George Hunt, taxi-driver. Junction, sought to recover from F. C. Gray, of Gray's Detective Agency, Thalberg's Chambers, Hunter-street, the sum of £1…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a meeting of the Newcastle branch of the New South Wales Police Association held last night, Mr. O. B. Palmer was appointed secretary in succession to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A shearer named Richard Lambkin appeared at the Central Criminal Court, Darlinghurst, to-day, before the Chief Justice (Sir William Cullen) and a jury,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One person charged with drunkenness for the first time had his ball deposit forfeited. Thomas Fair (56), labourer, was fined 2s 6d, or detention until the court…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Without leaving the box, and before the defence had exhausted its evidence, the Jury, at the Central Criminal Court, yesterday returned a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The trial of Mrs. Dorothy Mort on a charge or the murder of Dr. Claude John Tozer on December 21, 1920, was commenced at the Central Criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the trial held at Covington (Georgia) of John Williams, a planter, charged with instigating the murder of .negroes who were held in a state of peonage, Claude…
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