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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,722 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 87
A renewal of a spirit merchant's license was granted to George E. Berrick, of Watt-street, Newcastle, Approval was given to an application by Michael J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. F. W. C. Crane, P.M., occupied the bench at the Kurri Kurri Police court yesterday. Robert smith was charged with being…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The trial of Hannah Elizabeth Mitchell charged with the murder of Bertha Coughlan, or alternatively the murder of an Unknown woman, commenced in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The trial of Hannah Mitchell on a charge of murder was continued in Melbourne to-day. Frank Bonfiglio was culled in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Arthur Edward Tanner, 22, was fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment for drunkenness, and disorderly conduct. The magistrate reversed his decision of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An echo of what was ommonly known as the Digby Grand use, when a constable was shot at Alburn in 1903, and subsequently two men were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"I am determined to put down perjury—if what this witness has sworn is perjury. It seems a most extraordinary thing that a man…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The residence of First-class Constable Yeomans, of Kurri Kurri, was broken into on Wednesday night or early yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The trial of Hannah Elizabeth Mitchell, who is charged with the murder of Bertha Coughian, was continued in the Criminal Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →For the third day in succession Hannah Elizabeth Mitchett walked into the dock to stand her trial on the alternative charges of murder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"His Majesty's boarding-house was taxed almost to its full capacity at 1.30 this morning," said a member of the police force at Kurri to-day. "We…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Newcastle Police Court this morning, before Mr. Laidlaw, S.M., Henry Nicholson (21) and Archio Buchner (20) were charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Robert Hindmarsh, 52, was fined 10s, or three days' imprisonment for drunkenness, and on the same charge, Annie Shepherd, 40, and John Edward Sullivan, 43, were…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The trial of Nurse Mitchell, who was charged with the murder of Bertha Coughlan, concluded to-day. For the defence, Dr. O'Sullivan gave…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Evidence concerning the shooting at Noaklands of Andrew Bertram was heard at the Yeppoon Hospital, where the victim was still lingering between…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There has been criticism of a recent incident in Norfolk when a Labour magistrate from another district attended sessions at North Walsingham to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Interesting details of Gandhi have been received from an Indian printer and publisher who was sentenced at the tame time, and has now been released…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A laborer, Matthew Ross (44), who was convicted on a charge of larceny at Newcastle in August, and released as a first offender on his own…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Joseph Lawrence, 22, labourer, who pleaded guilty to drunkenness, was admonished and discharged. Archie Buchner, 20, fireman, and Henry Nicholson, 21,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Robert Kenny and Theodore Comberger pleaded not guilty to-day at the Newcastle Police Court, before Mr. Laidlaw, S.M., to a charge of…
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