Murder and Suicide. Charleville
A sensational murder and suicide took place at Eddington station early on Saturday morning. It appears that Thomas Fitzgerald,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1924
1,881 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 95
Ghost of Ivan Lenin's Guard Attached Midnight Murder Mystery London
The "Daily Mail" correspondent in Moscow says that the Red Guards at Lenin's palace at Kromlin struck, following mysterious murders in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floating Body What Watchman Saw Mysterious Splash Police Drag Harbor
While the watchman on the Union liner Walmarino, lying at a coal berth at the Dyke, was on duty last night, his attention was aroused by a heavy splash…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tricked From Priest Theft of £100 Father And Son Charged LONDON
Two Londoners, father and son, have been remanded in Dublin, charged with having obtained £100 by a trick from Father Hagerty, who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tried to Burn Bed Lad Sentenced
A long list of misdeeds was attributed to a 16-year-old youth, Leonard Barnes, of Mortlake (England), who was brought up for sentence at the Surrey Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, January 2. (Before Mr. H. F. W. Fletcher, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Seven first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. Thomas Walters, 12, was fined £1 10s, with the alternative of fourteen days' imprisonment, for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →League with Actress Bank Clerk Charged Stolen Dividend Warrants LONDON
As an illustration of the gravity of the offence, counsel for the prosecution stated that 213 other employees of the Bank of England were under…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Desperado's Stand Fierce Battle With Police Woman Acquitted
Despite his shocking criminal record Frank Sage chivalrously took upon himself all responsibility for one of his worst deeds in order to save from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland Less Crime Police Court Returns
The C.P.S. west Maitland has completed his annual crime return showing a total decrease of 117 in the number of cases dealt with at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Yellow Farthings" Boy's Theft of Sovereigns
These are strange times in which we live. At Wigan (England) a 12-year-old boy was charged with stealing a box containing £24 10s in gold from a shop…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder of a Missionary
A Shanghai message reports that a telegram from Sulyan states that a Belgian priest, Achille Soenen, was shot and killed at Hokiao when the town was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand Murder. Wellington
The Taihape police received word this morning that a man, named Gordon John Gemmell had been murdered on a farm adjoining the town, and owned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Police Court. Thursday, January 3. (Before Mr. H. F. W. Fletcher, S.M.)
Cases against Charles Cox and John Toomey, licensee of the Terminus Hotel, Wallsend, for alleged breaches of the Liquor Act, on November 18, were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Among the Tomatoes Assault At Wangi Man Knocked Down
Chas. Gentry, aged 47, a laborer, was charged at the Newcastle Police Court this morning before Mr. Fletcher, S. M., with having assaulted Ernest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small Debts Court
In the garnishee matter, Thomas Samuel Petherbridge v. J. Lamb (a male), with New Lambton Council as garnishees, the magistrate directed that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Perjurer Man Committed for Trial Home in Gaol
Alexander Rosenberg was charged with having on october 17 wilfully committed perjury before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw in that when he was shown…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, January 3. (Before Mr. H. W. Fletcher, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
A first offender charged with drunkenness, who did not appear, was fined 5s in default three hours' imprisonment, and the bail of another who did not appear…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brought From U.S.A. Club Secretary Charged MELBOURNE
Paul Clauscern, who was arrested in on America on an extradition warrant was charged at the city Court yesterday with forgery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Left His Plough Escape From Gaol In Officer's Absence SYDNEY
A prisoner named Holmes, who was serving a sentence of 18 months' imprisonment, escaped from Bathurst gaol about five o'clock yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Open Confession Steward's Lapse Convicted Of Theft
A young ship's steward. Bernard W. Forrest, approached Constable Moore, of North Stockton, on January 4, and remarked that he wished to give…
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