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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,881 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 95
As a result of inquiry by a departmental committee. Great Britain is likely to employ women detectives for the investigation of crime. Women, it is held, are temperamentally better suited for some classes of investigation than burly men with large feet and booming…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →John Russell, a labourer, was charged at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday with having broken and entered the dwelling-house of William R…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another sensation has been caused in Auckland by the murder of a 16-months-old child by his father, Joseph Peters Keogh, aged 43. Keogh cut his child's…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →On charges of drunkenness, William M'Daid (42) was fined £1, or seven days' imprisonment, and Thomas Lovell was fined 10s, or three days' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No arrest has yet been made for the Ca[?]field murder. There is now a suspicion that several people have knowledge of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →We now come to the last of the court essentials of a successful tennis game, and it is the one which is more capable of Individual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While Mr. and Mrs. George Dalzell and family, of Victoria- street. Kelso, near Singleton. were away on holidays in May, their home was burgled…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prague reports a crime which resembles the famous Thompson-Bywaters murder, in which a woman incited a man to kill her husband, but this one…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A first offender, for drunkenness, was fined 1s, or detention until the rising of the court. A woman, who had been locked imp on a similar charge and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"I thought you were sumo[?] else. I am sorry I hit you with the axe." This apology was tendered John Linden O'Connor by a man who had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An transparent phase of the question of court position is g[?]ship on [?] R mv[?]lves 1 Position…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. T. W. Cohen, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Percival Dumbrell was fined 5s, in default three days, for drunkenness, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →William Ball, for whom Mr. Ward appeared, charged Jack Carter with assault, at the Ceasnock polios court before Mr. F. W. Cohen, P. M…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three persons charged with drunkenness and who did not appear, had their bonds forfeited. On similar charges Frederick Richardson (38), George Kerr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Safe-blowers, who have been very active in Sydney lately, visited a branch office of the Government Savings Bank in Alfred-street. North…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The prettiest and daintiest police force in the world is Scotland Yard's objective in carrying out the Home Office's plan to employ women of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Miller, aged 47. was committed for trial by Mr. Perry. S. M., in tho Newcastle Police Court to-day, on a charge of having broken and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A dispute at the Trades' Halt on tho night of August 11 had Its sequel before Mr. Perry, S.M., in the Newcastle police court to-day, when Henry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Justice Edmunds, who arrived in Newcastle last night, will this morning in the Deputy Industrial Court open the case in which the Collieries Officials'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A first offender charged with drunkenness did not appear, and his ball bond was forfeited. Joseph Meikleson, 40, was fined £1, in default, seven days'…
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