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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1921

1,748 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 48 of 88

Remarkable Career of Tops Strange Story in Court Belgian Poser in Sydney Charge of Vagrancy

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 5

What is described by the police as one of the most extraordinary and romantic stories ever told of a prisoner at the Central Court characterises the…

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Police Court

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 16 July 1921 · page 5

At West Maitland Police Court this morning, before Mr. Atkin, P.M., James Brennan was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for having insufficient…

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A Belfast Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 July 1921 · page 5

Revolver continued in the York-street district of Belfast last night. A 14-year-old girl was killed, and two police and two civilians wounded,…

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American Police Systems

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 July 1921 · page 12

Of Mr. R. B. Fosdick's book on the police system of the different States of America, the "Times" says:—"It is inevitable that American police systems should seem…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, July 15. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 July 1921 · page 3

One person, charged with drunkenness for the first time, did not appear, and his ball deposit was forfeited. Martin M'Donough, 36, seaman, was fined…

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Australian Crooks Gaoled in London Well-known to Police SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 16 July 1921 · page 5

The five Australian crooks who were sentenced at the Old Halley in London yesterday for obtaining money by false pretences are well known to the…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 July 1921 · page 7

At the Newcastle Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M., five persons charged with drunkenness did not appear, and their bail deposits…

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Fugitive Shot at Park Assault Women Complain to Police

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 18 July 1921 · page 5

Complaining that she had been assaulted in King Edward Park, and that her companion was being assaulted by a man, a woman sought help from the…

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Work at the Cranes Carrington Argument Summons for Assault

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 18 July 1921 · page 5

Alexander Smith and Edgar Victor Nilson, crane employees, had an argument at Carrington on July 8. about work at the cranes, as a result of…

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German Navy Shadow Manslaughter, Not Murder Submarine Scoundrels London

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 18 July 1921 · page 1

At the trials at Leipzig, in sentencing Dittmar and Baldt, the President said that penal servitude was not inflicted, as the prisoners were found…

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Battered Head New Zealand Murder Boxer's Discovery Auckland (N.z.)

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 18 July 1921 · page 6

Francis Edward Jew. 20 years of age, was found murdered on a vacant, lot at Archhill. His head had been severely battered, mid there were five…

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East Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1921 · page 6

The bench at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday afternoon was occupied by Mr. G. Atkin, P.M. David Ley, Joseph Cook, Samuel…

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West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1921 · page 6

Mr. G. Atkin, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court, yesterday. James Delanty and Aubrey Smith were…

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Moonstruck Assault in Hotel Parmeter's Provocation

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 19 July 1921 · page 6

Constable Hughes saw Arthur William Moon (28), laborer, strike Cecil Hardy Parmeter (26), coal trimmer, in Honter-street West yesterday…

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Gaol Tragedy Auckland (N.z.)

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 19 July 1921 · page 5

The charred body of a newly-born male child has been discovered in tin boiler of a furnaco in the women's' division of Auckland gaol…

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Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 19 July 1921 · page 5

At West Maitland Licensing Court yesterday afternoon, Ernest Griffiths was granted a renewal of his colonial wine licence at Bishop's Bridge…

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No Death Penalty Debaters' Reform New Ideas of Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 19 July 1921 · page 4

Members of Newcastle Literary and Debating Society met in the Chamber of Commerce rooms last night, under the presidency of Mr. J. E. Murphy…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, July 18. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1921 · page 7

Bonds were forfeited, or nominal fines imposed in the cases of eight first offenders, charged with drunkenness. Upon charges of improper behaviour Edward…

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Murder or Suicide? Peden Case Query New Trial Commences SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 19 July 1921 · page 5

As one of the jury had failed to agree in the case of Arthur Bryee Peden, aged 51, mining assayer, who has been held in goal since his arrest…

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Making It Hot Police Case Fails Ex-Alderman Acquitted

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 19 July 1921 · page 6

At East Maitland Police Court yesterday afternoon, Frederick James Humphries was charged with behaving in an improper manner, using…

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