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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

2,043 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 103

Police Raid in Sydney Many Arrests Made Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1925 · page 5

Consternation prevailed among Sydney's criminals this evening when large possees of police and a number of police patrol waggons dashed into several…

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Double Tragedy London Police Puzzled Head in Oven London

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 April 1925 · page 1

Thirty detectives are investigating the mysterious deaths of Dr. Granville Cooke, aged 55, and Selwyn Foster, aged 25, whose bodies were found on…

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Wireless Imposter "Fined a Joker 2s 6d" Police Check Exploits SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 April 1925 · page 3

A versatile imposter with a bad record, was sentenced by Mr. Longfield, S.M., on three charges at Kogarah Court…

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Kidnapping and Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 April 1925 · page 5

A message from Bombay states that the prosecution in the sensational kidnapping and murder case has put in statements by the accused, some of whom…

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Resisted Police

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 April 1925 · page 8

Charles Nott. 19, a laborer, was fined £3, in default one month's imprisonment by Mr. Shropshire S.M., at the Newcastle Police Court to-day,…

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Assault Charge Europeans and Chinese Union-street Row

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 April 1925 · page 5

A disturbance, alleged to have occurred at No. 4 Union-street, which was continued in Hunter-street West, on Saturday night, in which two…

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Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, April 4. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 April 1925 · page 3

Two persons, who had been locked up for being drunk and were admitted to bail, did not appear. Their bonds were forfeited. Frederick Bounds, 61, cook, William…

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Mysterious Tragedy Police Surgeon Perplexed LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 April 1925 · page 1

The manner by which Dr. Granville Cooke and his associate, Selwyn Foster, came by their deaths in a London don flat has not yet been cleared up…

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West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1925 · page 6

Mr. H. F. W. Fletcher, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Joseph ,Williams, and Roy Roarty were…

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"Called Me Buttons" Cessnock Assault

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 April 1925 · page 5

Victor Caban pleaded not guilty when charged at the Cessnock police court this morning, before Mr. Fletcher. P.M., with assaulting Daniel…

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"Low Spirited" Why He Stole Car Three Months' Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 April 1925 · page 1

A Sentence of three months imprisonment in Maitland Gaol was passed on Albert Hearne, 25, a cook, by Mr. Shropshire, S.M[?] at the Newcastle…

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Newcastle Police Court. Monday, April 6. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1925 · page 7

Eleven first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. Edward Drew, 50, and Edwin Davidson, 31, were each fined £1, or seven days' imprisonment, for…

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District News Wallsend. Police Hospital Effort

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1925 · page 5

Arrangements for projected entertainments in support of the Wallsend effort in connection with the endeavour of the police in aid of the Wallsend Hospital,…

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Miners' Compensation High Court Appeal Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1925 · page 5

The High Court to-day granted the South Greta Colliery Co. and the Hebburn Colliery Co. special leave to appeal against the decision of the State Full Court…

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Committed for Trial Indian Court Conspiracy CALCUTTA

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 April 1925 · page 1

All the accused in the case in which the lover of Mumraz Begum, a former court favorite of indore, was shot dead in a crowded street of Bombay…

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Cessnock Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 April 1925 · page 5

Mr. H. F. W. Fletcher, P.M., occupied the bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. Robert Donald Kellett and William…

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Crowborough Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 April 1925 · page 7

The spectacle of the judges using microscopes on the bench to examine sections of human skin was one of several unusual features at the hearing of the…

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Row on Steamer Gaol for Fireman

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 April 1925 · page 6

A sentence of the month's imprisonment in Maitland Gaol was passed on Charles Bright, 38, a fireman, by Mr. Shropshire, S.M., at the Newcastle…

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Theft of a Watch Sorrowful Ex-Soldier

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 April 1925 · page 3

John Hardman (31), laborer pleaded guilty, Before Mr. Shropshire, S.M., In Newcastle Police Court to-day, to a charge of having, at Newcastle on…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, April 7. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 April 1925 · page 3

Two first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. For assaulting Constable M. B. Sands, William Downie Dolan, 32, fireman, who had been arrested for…

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