Small Debts Court
Margaret Williams versus Thomas James May, claiming £5 in respect of the sale and delivery of 25 fowls. The defendant pleaded not indebted, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1924
1,881 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 58 of 95
Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, August 7. (Before Mr. A. R. Perry, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
One first offender, charged with drunkenness, was fined 1s, or detention till the rising of the court. Two others who did not appear had their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mexican Murder Assassins In Custody Full Inquiry Mexico City
The War Department announces that the assassins of Mrs. Evans have been captured near the ranch where the crime was committed, and are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Action for Negligence Appeal to the Full Court Sydney
The Full Court consisting of Mr. Justice Street, Mr. Justice Gordon, and Mr. Justice James, to-day reserved decision in the appeal made by the defendant in an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Count in Court Impersonated a Detective Mind Unhinged London
After posing as a secret service agent and special bodyguard to M. Painleve, President of the Chamber, of Deputies, Count Felix Decigar[?] was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Daily Murder Man Shot Dead in Victorian Bush Divorce Sequel Brother-in-law Of Victim Gives Himself Up MELBOURNE
Still another Shooting tragedy is reported from Victoria, [?]ls time from the country. A man was shot dead. A man named Murs[?]n walked into the police station at Mananga[?]ang last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District East Maitland Police Court
Mr. T. W. Cohen. P.M., presided at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. James B. Argrooe was fined 10s,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charge of Murder Brisbane
At the Brisbane Police Court to-day, George Brett, aged 40, and Norman O'Brien, 32, on remand, appeared charged with murdering Ernest Hargreaves,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Opium and Firearms Seven Chinese Charged Newcastle Case
There was an interesting scene at the Newcastle police court to-day, when seven Chinese, some stolid, some smiling, in the usual Oriental…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, August 8. (Before Mr. A. R. Perry, S.M.) Drunkenness
Three first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. Misconduct at Broadmeadow. On each of two charges of improper…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Warden's Court. Coal Applications
Mr. G. James, district warden, presided at a sitting of the Warden's Court, hold yesterday, at the Newcastle Court-house…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Court, East Maitland
The centre of many interesting [?]s. Maitland Court has a very large district under its administration…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Was It Murder ? Double Shooting Puzzles London Tragedy in a Flat Husband And Wife Succumb to Bullet Wounds LONDON
Tragedies are apparently not confined to Victoria at present. The London police are puzzled over double shooting f[?]ally, which may have been either a case of murder and suicide, or of double suicide. The tragedy occurred in a Piccadilly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Mexican Murder
It is reported from Mexico City that President Obregon told the newspapermen that it wan most fortunate that the assassination of Mrs. Rosalie Evans had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Magistrate Butler Replies to Questions Sydney
Mr. A. O. Butler, the magistrate, about whom numerous questions have been asked in the Legislative Assembly recently, following upon the action of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Son Stop-press Melbourne Murder
The detectives are almost on the point of something startling. FEDERAL PACT The agreement bet veen the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, August 9. (Before Mr. A. R. Perry, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
One first offender, who had been locked up for drunkenness and admitted to bail, did not appear, and his bond was forfeited. Joseph Vincent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Charges Withdrawn Watchman In Court
Two charges preferred against James Brown (28), a night-watchman, who was brought before Mr. Perry, S.M., at the Newcastle Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →West Maitland Police Court
Mr. T. W. Cohen, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. John Warland was fined £5, with 12s 6d costs, for having ridden a motor cycle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murder and Suicide
Neighbours visiting the home of a colliery engine-driver named George Brecknock, at the village of Brodsworth, Yorkshire, found him and his son, aged four,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →