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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1921

1,748 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 88

Made a Mistake MAlT Out of Gaol Not Wanted in Australia SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 January 1921 · page 5

The Union Company's steamer Tofua, which arrived in Sydney yesterday, brought a passenger form New Zealand whom the Customs authorities…

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Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, January 20. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 January 1921 · page 7

William H. Neal and Charles Crighton were charged, under the Motor Traffic Act, with having failed to renew their licenses no drivers within three days of the…

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Murder Near Cardiff. Chinese the Victim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 January 1921 · page 5

Shortly before six o'clock last evening Mo Lun, a Chinese gardener, was found lying dead on the roadside between Cardiff and New Lambton, under…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, January 20. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 January 1921 · page 3

Two first offenders charged with drunkenness, forfeited their bonds, and another one was fined 5s, in default three hours' detention. James Simpson (32) was fined…

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Police Officer As Law Breaker

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 January 1921 · page 6

Sir,—I was on Wednesday a passenger by train, Maitland to Newcastle. During the Journey, to my surprise a police officer in uniform came through the length…

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Murder of Mo Lun New Lambton Tragedy Mysterious Affair Traveller Also Fired At

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 January 1921 · page 5

Mo Lun, a market gardener, of Ca[?] was murdered near the Lookout Estate New Lambton late yesterday afternoon. It is believed that Mr. Lyne, a traveller for D. Mitchell and Company was also fired at earlier in the afternoon, when he was passing…

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Industrial Progress Value of Hotels Need For Accommodation Refuge in Police Cells

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 January 1921 · page 5

"Everyone can be assured that the industrial progress of this district will be maintained," said Mr. Cohen in his address on the question of the…

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Murder Mystery Mo Lun's Death Police Following Trails

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 5

The murderer of Mo Lun is still large. The police are working hard, but so far have not made any arrests. A large number of trails have been…

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"Find Me Work" Appeal to Magistrate

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 5

Recently when fining some landowners at the Singleton police court for falling to keep their land free of rabbits, Mr. G. Alkin, P.M., remarked…

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Sinn Fein Outrages. Murder of Police. Military Retaliation. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 7

Sinn Feiners ambushed a police patrol at Glenwood, and hilled Inspector Clarke, a sergeant, and four constables, and wounded a sergeant and a constable…

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The Cardiff Murder. Search for Perpetrator

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 6

Mo Lun, whose murder on the Cardiff-New Lambton road on Thursday evening was reported in yesterday's issue of the "Newcastle Morning Herald," was…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, January 21. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 3

May Heath, 53, married woman, for drunkenness, was fined 5s or detention until the rising of the court, and William Murphy, 35 fireman, 5s, or three hours'…

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Double Hanging Eastbourne Murder "One Man Innocent" LONDON, Friday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 1

The question as to whether Jack Field and William Gray are to be hanged for the Eastbourne murder, involving the death of the London…

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Constable's Death Police Without A Clue SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 5

All day yesterday and this morning the police were working to bring about the apprehension of the murderer of canatable Wolgast, who was fatally…

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Irish' Warfare Another Massacre of Police Ambush at Glenwood Inspector Murdered near Barracks LONDON, Friday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 22 January 1921 · page 1

Dublin Castle announces that a police, patrol was ambushed at Glenwood, County Clare. Six, including a district inspector and sergeant, were…

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"Cutting Corners" Magistrate's Comment

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 24 January 1921 · page 3

Albert Leslie Manning was charged before the Newcastle Court this morning with not Keeping a motor cycle as near as possible to the footpath…

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Murder Mysteries Police Investigations Following the Trails Newcastle arid Sydney Crimes

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 24 January 1921 · page 5

"Nothing." That is the result so far of the police, hunt for the murderer of Mo Lun. The plain-clothes men are still hard at…

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Alleged Assault Scott-street Incident

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 24 January 1921 · page 5

Karl Larsen, sailor, told Mr. Le Brun Brown, S.M., in the Newcastle Court this morning, that last Wednesday night a man grabbed him by…

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The Cardiff Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 January 1921 · page 5

Every possible suggestion of a clue is being diligently followed by the police in the hope of discovering the murderer of the Chinese, Mo Lun, at Cardiff, but up…

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Murder on the Alps

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 January 1921 · page 5

A message from Berne states that traces in the snow above Gignod, towards the Saint Bernard Hospice, showed that men so skis had murdered three wealthy…

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