In a Chinese Cafe Midnight Dispute Assault Charge Fails
Mr. Butler. D.S.M., this morning dismissed charges of Indecent language and assa[?]lt brought by John Robertson against Arthur Patrick…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1924
1,881 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 54 of 95
Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, July 24. (Before Mr. A. O. Butler, D.S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
The bonds of two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were forfeited. Emily Alice Ross, 52, pleaded guilty to having used improper language in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Human Skull Discovery in Scrub Supposed Murder Melbourne
Interest in a sensational case of 13 years ago has been revived by the discovery of a human skull In a belt of thick ti-tree scrub which covers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Leaders in Court Sydney
At the Central Police Court to-day, William Marshall (25) and Norman Power (33) appeared to answer charges in connection with the unemployment…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →That Chicago Murder
Over in Arizona recently, one William Ward stopped one Edward Grosh, and one Maxine McNelly, his sweetheart, on the highway. He wanted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Police Trouble
The sensation of polities just at the moment is the fight that is being pursued between the Home Secretary, Mr. Stopford, and the secretary of the Police…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, July 25. (Before Mr. A. O. Butler, D.S.M.) Drunkenness
Daniel Jones, 35, was fined 30s, or 14 days' imprisonment, for drunkenness. Charles Gentry, 47, on remand, who was charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grisly Tax English "Entertainment" Viewing Murder Site London
Queues wait all day outside the C[?]mbles bungalow, where Million murdered Miss Kaye. The landlady Is making £ 100 n week by charging a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Theft From Shop
Thieves entered the bicycle shop of William Harris, Belford-street, Broadmeadow, between 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday morning, and stole…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Assault on a Constable
Mr. Cohen, P.M., at West Maitland police court this morning, gave William Holmes to understand that policemen did not grace the streets to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, July 26. (Before Mr. A. G. Chiplin, J.P.)
One first offender, for drunkenness, was fined 5s, or 24 hours' detention. David Wright (37), labourer, was fined 10s, or three days' imprisonment, for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Smoking Opium Police Watch Operations in Steel-Street Chinamen Fined Unlicensed Beer For European Visitors
Ah m[?] 66, a cook and A[?] Let. [?]a sealer, were each fined £10, at the Newcastle Police Court to-day bit Mr. perry, S.M., with £2 [?] costs in default one month's imprisonment for having opium in their possession, and Ah Now was fined £30, in default 3 month's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Maitland Police Court
Mr. T. W. Cohen, P.M., occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. William Holmes, a labourer, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Beach Assault
John Christopher Postleweight, 19, a motor driver, and Edward Lamont, 24, a laborer, were each fined £5, in default two months' imprisonment,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Charge of Murder
Frederick Southgate, a former, aged 52, visited Colchester Asylum and sought admission there on the ground that he had lost his memory. Shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How to Be Happy in Gaol
That is America. The smiling youth, second from the left, is Dick Loeb, described by his defending counsel as a "super intellectual." He is not charged with a college ra[?] or boyish prank, but the r[?]ing murder and disfiguration, with an accomplice, Nathan Leopold, of a schoolboy, Robert Franks, incidentally he has confessed to the crime. The picture shows Loeb and other prisoners enjoying the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, July 28. (Before Mr. A. R. Perry, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were fined 1s, in default detention until the rising of the Court; and six others, who did not appear, had their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →51 VICTIMS Murder as a Trade LONDON
A shoemaker and his wife have confessed to the murder of 51 prospective emigrants, says the correspondent of the "Dally Mall" at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Grounding of Bermagui Marine Court Inquiry Sydney
The Marine Court, consisting of Judge Cohen, and Captains Hart and Chudleigh as assessors, held an inquiry to-day into the grounding of the coastal steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mayfield Thefts Two Men Sentenced Burglary of Cloth Singleton
At the quarter sessions yesterday, before Judge White, John Jackson and Frederick Jones were charged with having, on July 11, broken and…
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