His Aunt's Watch Young Man's Theft
"I ask you to be lenient with me. It has taught me a lesson. It was in my father before, and it seams to be in me. I have been trying to over,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1924
1,881 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 95
Dying Son Retracts Charge Of Murder
In a hospital at Angers (Franco). Mine Vaux heard her 20-year-old son retract the statement he made more than a year ago, which branded her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court Friday, January 11. (Before Mr. T. W. Cohen, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
James Thomas Reay (48) and James Parrell (35) were each fined 10s, or three days imprisonment, for drunkenness, William D'Keefe (40), fireman, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Case of Mrs. Mort. to Remain in Gaol. Sydney
The efforts, made to secure the release of Mrs. Marjorie Mort, who in 1921 was found not guilty on the ground of insanity to a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Systematic Frauds Pensions Officer Charged £987 INVOLVED Young Woman Implicated! MELBOURNE
Systematic frauds in connection with the war pensions in New Zealand were alleged by the police at the City court to-day against…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murderous Attack Sleeping Girl Assaulted Police Baffled Mysterious Intruder MURWILLUMBAH
At Greenmount boarding-house, at Coolangatta, in the curly hours of Thursday morning, a murderous attack was made on a lady…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boy Kidnapped Mother Defies Court Father's Wish Opposed LONDON
The High court decided in 1918 that Reggie Brown, aged three, should, in accordance with his dead Father's wish, continue to live with his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Where Lawyers Shine Serving the State Mr. Bruce Goes To Court LONDON
The Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, when he visited the Criminal Court, was welcomed by the Recorder, Mr. Justice Wild, who remarked that Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder in Calcutta
A shooting affray hits occurred in Calcutta. An armed Bengali, whose name is at present unknown, apparently ran amok and shot a European named Ernest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne Gaol. Plot Frustrated. Melbourne
Albert Edward Arme, a young man, a chauffeur, was arrested by Detectives Duffle and Sakle on a charge of loitering with Intent to commit felony. At 7.50…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, January 12. (Before Mr. T. W. Cohen, D.S.M.) Drunkenness
A first offender, who had been locked up for drunkenness and was admitted to bail, did not appear, and forfeited his bond…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →West Maitland Police Court
Mr. A. R. Perry P. M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Joseph Moylan, a labourer, was charged with having used improper language…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Burglary at Maryville
The residence of Mrs. Phillip Riters, 22 Estell-street, Maryville, was entered during the absence of the inmates between half-past five o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Calcutta Murder
The murderer of Ernest Day in Calcutta has been identified as a Bengall, about 20 years of age, a resident of the Serampore suburb of Calcutta, who two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, January 14. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Four persons, who had been locked up for drunkenness and were admitted to ball, did not appear, and their bonds were forfeited. Two other first offenders,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Women to the Rescue One Was Knocked Out Belmont Brawl Magistrate Reserves Decision
Further evidence was taken by Mr. Laidlaw, S.M., at Newcastle police court this morning in the case in which eight young men were charged with riotous behavior. The case, arising out of a brawl among a number of young men on the Belmont-road on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Double Murder. Two Bodies Burned Cr[?]inal's Plot T[?]ever Ago
By arresting Warren Lincoln, a second cousin of President Abraham Lincoin, the police to-dau solved one of the strangest cases of double murder. In the cell Warren confessed that he shot Byron Shoup, of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cessnock. Police Court
Mr. A. R. Perry, P[?] presided at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. Peter M'Clusky was fined 5s, with 8s costs, each on two charges of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Calcutta Murder
The murder of the Englishman, Ernest Day, which is generally accepted as the work of a member of the revolutionary party, has deeply stirred the Europeans…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, January 15. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Drunkenness
A first offender, who had been locked up for drunkenness, end was admitted to ball, did not appear, and his bond was forfeited…
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