Grant Goes to Gaol Won't Pay Fine Demonstration in Court SYDNEY
Cheers broke out in the Central Summons Court to-day when Donald Grant dramatically announced, "I will go to gaol and do the time. I will not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1923
1,722 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 53 of 87
Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, August 1. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Drunkenness
The ball was forfeited of a first offender charged with drunkenness, and who did not appear. Charges of Theft…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Killed Aunt on Sunday Nagged Nephew Retaliates With Murder LONDON
"It's a horrible thing to say, but I killed Auntie on Sunday," was the dramatic confession of [?] case, disclosed at the inquest on Mrs. Edmunds, otherwise Jennings, whose husband, is abroad. He added, "I stood her nagging for two houres after which [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Bones Found Are They Mrs. Heaydon's? Coogee Mystery. Murder Clues in Shed Sydney
Early this morning bone-hunters were at work in a diner, dilapidated shed in Catherine-street. Digging operations were resumed shortly after 8 o'clock, and it was not long before more…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wallamba Wreck Marine Court Inquiry "Error of Judgment" SYDNEY
In the Marine court yesterday (before Judge Cohen and Captain C. V. Wood and D. Reid, assessors) the total loss of the North Coast steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court Busy
At the Newcastle Court House to-day [?] cases were on the list for hearing. Of these, six came before Mr. J. M. Laidlaw, in the police court, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coogee Murder Mystery Police Locate More Bones. Sydney
The detectives who discovered a number of human bones buried underneath a motor garage at the Glebe yesterday afternoon, were again on the spot early this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Were They Tickled? Magistrate Was Not
Robert Jeffries and William Harrison were charged at Wallsend Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. W. Laidlaw, S.M., with-behaving in an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Insulting Words Chemist Charged Apology Accepted
Michael Kelly, a chemist, was proceeded against at the Newcastle Summons Court to-day with using insulting words…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murder Charge Death of Nurse O'Brien Hart in Court Again Remanded Pending Inquest
Abraham Meyer Hart (66), the Newcastle chemist charged with the murder of Cecilia May O'Brien, a nurse, who died at…
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Ellis Gladstone Leach, a wheeler, was examined regarding his inability to meet his creditors. Bankrupt deposed that the cause of his present condition was…
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Mr. R. L. C. Hill, revision clerk for the polling place areas of Boolaroo. Lambton, Minmi, Teralba, Wallsend-Plattsburg. Waratah, and West Wallsend, gave…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wallsend Police Court Thursday, August 2. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.)
Alexander Goodwin, who pleaded guilty to a charge of improper behaviour, was fined 30s, with Ss costs, with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Small Debts Court
Mr. J. Youll appeared for the judgment creditors in the garnishee matters:—J. A. Atcheson v. A. E. Perry, Peter Callen v. A. E. Perry, and Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court Thursday, August 2. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Drunkenness
Seven first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. John Johnson (37) was fined 10s, or three days' imprisonment, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court Friday, August 3. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
One person, charged with drunkenness for the first time, was admonished and discharged. William Henry Morgan (35) was fined 10s, or three days'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder Maniac Strangles Wife And Uncle Wounds Brother Farmer's Fiendishness LONDON
"The Times" Madrid correspondent reports that there has been a terrible series of murders committed by a farmer whom doctors certified insane…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"I Loved Her" Wife-murder Charge Accident Plea Mother-in-law Blamed ADELAIDE
"Gentlemen, I am not guilty. It was an accident. I loved my wife." So said Edward Applebee in a statement yesterday, when his trial on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder in France
A Paris telegram reports that a man of weak intellect named Laconde was feeling aggrieved that M. Barrere, a well-known lawyer at Perpignan, had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, August 4. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Drunkenness
Two persons, who had boon locked up for drunkenness, and admitted to ball, did not appear, and their bonds were forfeited. Two other first offenders were…
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