Jury Disagree Alleged Theft Case
After being locked up all last night the jury were unable to agree in the case at the Newcastle Circuit Court, in which Thomas Clarence Oakes was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1921
1,748 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 69 of 88
Circuit Court
Mr. Justice Wade presided at the Newcastle. Circuit Court, yesterday. Mr. W. J. Ralston was Crown Prosecutor. ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lost or Stolen One Gratuity Bond Theft Charge Fails
In September a retarded soldier. Alexander Stuhrit. of hunter-street, Newcastle, and a laborer at the Steal Works, missed [?] war gratuity bond…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Do Films Cause Crime? Movies and Murder
Hard things are often said about the film as a creator of crime. It is alleged that the prevalence at picture theatres of scenes depicting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, October 11. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Charles Harrison (19), labourer, for drunkenness, was fined 5s, or two hours' detention. Thomas Higgins (28), firemen, and Thomas Prince (30), labourer, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Crime of Success" A. Abigail Charged Crown Prosecution SYDNEY
Arthur Aligail, a solicitor's clerk. and George Wallace Hokin, appeared at the Central Summon Court to-day on a conspiracy charge. Information…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Sh-h-h!" Injunction at the Bar Theft of Sac Coat
At the Newcastle Police Court this morning, James Lonrigan (42) pleaded guilty to having stolen yesterday a sac coat vained at £2 10s., the property…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death of a Baby Mother Acquitted Islington Murder Charge
The trial for child murder of Dorothy May Dunmore was conducted at the Newcastle Circuit Court to-day, before Justice Wade and a lury…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small Debts Court. a Driving Accident
Harry Gregory, of Globe. v. George Silcock, of Tighe's Hill, claim of £10 for damage to sulky, resulting from an accident on the Newcastle-Raymond Terrace…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Charge of Murder Death on the Road Rockhampton Mystery ROCKHAMPTON
On the morning of July 8, the body of Frederick Crawford, for 25 years employed by Messrs. R. and Sidney Jones, as confidential clerk, was found…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Warden's Court. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, Warden.)
The application of E. Kelly, J. Edwards, W. T. Fowler, and E. Card, lessees of coal-mining leases Nos. 129, 130, 131, 360, 361, and 404, situated in the parishes of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. W. Le Brun Brown, C. Hibble, and Dr. Nickson, L.Ms.)
The license of the Travellers' Rest Hotel, Hexham, was transferred from Robert Manning to Thomas Richards; and that of the Sportsman's Arms Hotel New…
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Mr. Justice Wado presided over the Newcastle Circuit (Court Yesterday, and Mr. W. J. Ralston was the Crown Prosecutor…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, October 12. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Stole a Coat
James Lonrigan, 42, was charged, with stealing a coat, valued at £2 10s, the property of David Reuben Israel. Constable W. F. Jefferson, deposed that the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Destitute and Deserted Woman's Plight Mother Leaves Child Pitiful Story in Court
A pathetic case of child desertion in which a mother had, through sheer want, been forced to leave, her five months' old baby girl at the house of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To a Higher Court Young Man Evades Law Brother and Sister Shot SYDNEY
A brother and sister were found in a bedroom at their father's residence Bulwarra-road, Ultimo, this morning, bleeding from wounds in the head…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, October 13. (Before Mr. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness
Patrick Ryan, 36, for having been drunk, was lined 10s, in default, two days' imprisonment. Could Not Get Work…
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Hearing was resumed yesterday morning at the Newcastle Circuit Court by Mr. Justice Wade and a jury of four of the civil action in which Edmund Cragg,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Innocent Woman Goaled a Prison Drama Story Told in Appeal Court Tragic Mistake Made
An amazing instance of a grave miscarriage of Justice was brought to light when convictions against a woman for libel were quashed and the victim of the mistake liberated. she was Mrs. Rose Emma Gooding, whose home is at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stealing Soldiers' Money
John Richard Westley, a farmer, has been charged at the Stratford Court, on his own confession, with stealing £600, belonging to the Adelaide soldiers' land…
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