"Telephone Shy" Fireman's Theft "More Fool than Rogue"
Constable Sands saw William George Jones (60), fireman, carrying [?] piece of hose along Maitland-road, Mayfield, about 12.30 a.m., on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1922
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Small Debts Court
Robert Roney, of Cessnock, v. M. Light and Son, Limited, Newcastle, claim of £10 13s 4d, alleged to be due for cartage. The matter had been adjourned from last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, September 5. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Two persons, who had been locked up for drunkenness and admitted to bail, did not appear, and their bonds were forfeited. James Brooks (45), hawker, also…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Egypt. the Court's Judgment. London
At the inquiry into the wreck of the P. and O. S.S. Egypt, the Court found that the collision was not due to the default of the officers, but only the loss of life…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steel Works Case. Court to Resume Hearing. Sydney
The hearing of the application of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company for a variation of the Steel Works Employees' award in order to effect an all-round…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Licensing Court. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, L.M.)
An application for the transfer of the license of the Commonwealth Hotel, Cook's Hill, from John Fahey to L. P. Higgs, was granted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle District Court. Tuesday, September 5. (Before his Honor Judge Hamilton.) Workmen's Compensation Act
Compensation of £500 was paid into court in regard to the death of William James Strecter, a builder's labourer, who was killed on July 18 last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kurri. Police Court
Mr. F. W. C. Crane. P.M., occupied the Bench at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday. John Kennedy and William Green were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Revision Court
A revision court in connection with the lists of ratepayers and electoral of Hamilton Municipality will be held in the local council chambers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lady Magistrate Feminine J.P. Sworn In MUSWELLBROOK
Mrs. W. A. Oliver, J.P., has been sworn in by Mr. J. W. Humphries, J.P. Mrs. Oliver is Muswellbrook first lady J. P…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, September 6. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness
One person, charged with drunkenness for the first time, did not appear, and his bail deposit was forfeited. John M'Carthy (34), fireman, was fined £1,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mystery Murder Drama of the Law Dr. Burdell's Curious Menage Coroner's Mistaken Theory of Crime
Who killed Dr. Burdell? Through a blustering, self-important coroner the actual murderer has never been discovered, though there have been many aspirants to infamous immortality…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Discounting a Cheque Lady in Court Charge Against Australian LONDON
Mrs. Marguerite Fiske, who lavishly entertained Australians during the war, including 1000 simultaneously at Windsor grounds, has been charged…
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A message from Halifax, Nova Scotia, states that a horrible crime has been revealed by the arrest of Omar Roberts, a prominent guide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, September 7. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness
The bond was forfeited by one first offender charged with drunkenness, and another was fined 5s, with the alternative of detention to the rising of the court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, September 8. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Dunkenness, Etc
Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, forfeited the amount of their bonds. James Morrison, 37, labourer, was fined £2, in default ten days'…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →To Die Together Wife's Collapse Murder for Money
For the murder of George Stanley Grimshaw, a Walthamstow house decorator, in Higham's Park, Epping Forest, on the night of May 17, William James…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Real "Jack Sheppard" Genius at Breaking Gaol Outwitting the Turnkeys Visitors of Rank and Fashion
I wonder if the name of Jack Sheppard exercises the same spell over the schoolboy of to-day that it did in the sixties (asks Judge Parry in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Germans Wrongly Charged London
The Brussel's correspondent of "Le Petit Parisien states that the tragedy at Obercassel has taken a sensational turn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder by a Boy
An inquest is being held on the mummified body of George Smith, aged three years, which was found in a box in an attic at Portsmouth, after the child had…
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