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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1924

1,881 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 95

Busy Court 72 Cases To-day

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 May 1924 · page 6

The Newcastle Police Court presented a crowded appearance to-day, when there was an unusually large number of offenders. Including the…

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Police Baffled Murder of May Anderson SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 May 1924 · page 6

Though detectives have interviewed over 200 people and carried out a painstaking search, they have not yet found tho murderer of May…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, May 19

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1924 · page 8

Eight first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were admonished and discharged. Eleven others who did not appear, and their bands were forfeited…

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Byfleet Murder Heated Court Seene Widow's Cafe London

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 May 1924 · page 6

"The prosecution alleges that va[?]uies des[?]ed Mrs. Jones,and that [?] was way be caused her husband to be poisoned. Our de[?]nce is that…

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The World Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1924 · page 5

It is reported from Washington that to the official disfavour which greeted Senator Lodge's alternative to the World Court proposal, there has now been added…

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Maitland District Fair Rents Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1924 · page 6

The first case under the Fair Rents Act in the Maitland district was heard by Mr. A. R. Perry, P.M., yesterday at the West Maitland Courthouse, when…

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Guest of Journalist Pevnsey Murder Witness Newspapers Cited London, Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 May 1924 · page 5

A journalist's ruse to keep an important police witness from contact with other newspapermen was revealed before the King's Bench, when…

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Byfleet Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1924 · page 7

At the inquest into the death of Alfred Jones, the landlord of the Byfleet Hotel, which occurred from poisoning, the man Vaquier broke his long silence by a…

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Hard Luck Sympathetic Magistrate Case Adjourned

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1924 · page 5

"I have been living in Sydney, where I have a wife and six children. I had been out of work for a considerable time, and was up against it…

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"Ringing In" Conspirators Sentenced Wellington (N.z.)

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1924 · page 5

The Supreme Court Judge to-day sentenced the accused in the "ringing in" conspiracy and false pretences cases, as follows:--…

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Police Association Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1924 · page 8

The third annual smoke social of Newcastle branch of the Police Association of New South Wales will be held in the King's Hall, Perkin-street,…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, May 20. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1924 · page 3

A first offender, charged with drunkenness, was admonished and discharged, and the bonds of two others who did not appear were forfeited…

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Posed As Policeman "All Your Money or Gaol" Roydhouse's Ruse

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1924 · page 5

For posing as a policeman and "arresting" a man in the bar of the Great Northern Hotel, John Sydney Roydhouse, was fined £3, in…

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Motor Cycles As Police Mounts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1924 · page 11

For more than a dozen years the motor cycle has been recognised as an important and indispensable factor in police departmental work, the reason…

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Instructed to Lie Constable's Admission Police Evidence Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1924 · page 5

A constable candidly admitted at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day that he was instructed to lie in certain cases…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1924 · page 3

Transfers were granted of the following publicans' licenses: George Joseph Flannery to James Gilroy, Cross Keys Hotel, Tighe's Hill;…

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Unseen Marksmen Attempt to Assassinate Governor Sato's Narrow Escape Desperate Koreans' Murder Plan Fails TOKIO

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1924 · page 1

Another attempt has been made to assassinate Admiral Baron Sato, the Japanese Governor-General of Korea. This is the third attempt which has been made on hit life. He was the target for a volley fired at a launch in which he was…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Municipal Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1924 · page 3

The Stockton Municipal Council claimed the sum of £7 11s 2d from Mrs. Rose Crammond, of Cremorne, being half cost of kerbing and guttering…

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Alleged Stealing

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 May 1924 · page 1

Angus Byrnes, 23, a laborer was remanded for a week by Mr. Laidlaw, S- M., at the Newcastle police court this morning on a charge of entering…

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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, May 21

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 May 1924 · page 8

A first offender, charged with drunkenness, was admonished and discharged, and the bail of another who did not appear was forfeited. Norman…

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