Whisky Running Seamen's Theft Smuggling to America LONDON
The arrest ad conviction of two seamen for [?] whisky from a schooner on Now Year's Day in Rothesay Bay leads…
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Courts & crime, 1923
1,722 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 87
Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 8. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Drunkenness
Isaac Weir (53), a coloured man, for having boon drunk, was fined £1, in default seven days' Imprisonment. Lance Sutcliffe (17), labourer, was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle District Court. Workmen's Compensation Decisions
Judgments, which were withheld by his Honor, Judge Hamilton, in connection with several cases under the Workmen's Compensation Act that came before the…
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Henry Hall. alias John Clarke, was charged at the West Maitland Police Court this morning before Mr. W. S. Bromhead. J.P. with, while not being a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Executions for Murder
Bywaters and Mrs. Thompson have boon executed for the murder of the latter's husband at Ilford. Mr. Bridgeman, the Secretary of State…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, January 9. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Shoplifting
Nellie Mead (23), for whom Mr. F. O'Donnell appeared, was charged with the theft of two pairs of shoes, valued at 13s 8d, the property of John Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Law Carried Out Ilford Murder Executions Morbid Crowds Staring at Prison Walls LONDON
The extraordinary morbid public interest which has surrounded the various Ilford murder developments, remained till the end…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Court Procedure Mystery Charges Mr. Peisley's Methods SYDNEY
A new procedure has been adopted by Mr. Peisley, a new stipendiary magistrate. Mr. Peisley will not allow the charge against an accused person to be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.)
By consent, a verdict for £9 19s, representing rent, with Costs of 8s 6d, was awarded Clara England, of Kondall-street, New Lambton, against Reginald…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw and Dr. W. Nickson, L.M.'s
Three months' leave of absence as licenses of the Criterion Hotel, Newcastle, was granted to Henry Joseph Rose, on the ground of Ill-health. Billiard…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sweetest Girl Ex-convtct Lover Attempted Murder
"It is only right that you should know why it is I have divided to end everything, lest these feelings which a man has deep down in the corner of his heart…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, January 10. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Paid No Fare
Claude Wilson (19), a wheeler, was fined 10s, with the alternative of twenty-four hours' imprisonment, for having travelled on a train between West Maitland and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murder and Suicide
Mrs. Middleton, the wife of a Newcastle marine officer, disappeared in August last. She wont to live in a house in Regent Park occupied by a man named Maithy,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, January 11. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Remanded
John Matchett (32) was charged with stealing a hag containing two purses, £1 10s in money, and a money order for 10s, of a total value of £5, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Insulting Words Police and Miners
Before Major Crane, P.M., at Greta Court on Thursday, H. Dooley was fined 40s with [?] costs or 21 days' gaol, for using insulting words to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Theft Wellington
At the police court a young man named Jack Drayson was committed for 'rail on a charge of larceny as a bailee of a horse, sulky, and harness, valued at £30…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bank Manager Arrested Alleged Theft of £5400 ALBURY
George Kenneth Kitching, aged 39 ears, was arrested at Albury upon the arrival of the mail thain from Sydney at mid-day and was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, January 12. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Lafdlaw, S.M.) Attempted Suicide
A charge of attempting to commit suicide at Merewether, on January 10, was preferred against Jusius Christian Hansen, aged 32 years. Sergeant M. O. Wray,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Regent Park Murder
It is reported that the police have found the Winchester rifle with which Maitby murdered Mrs. Middleton whose body was found in a bath in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, January 13. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Ethel Rita Brandon (23) and Rose Burns (32), for being drunk and disorderly, were each fined £2, or fourteen days' imprisonment. The defendants were also charged…
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