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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
2,043 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 103
Dr. Cook, the former arctic explorer, who made a bogus claim to have covered the North Pole, has failed in all his appeals against his conviction…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Publicans' licenses were transferred as follows:— Commercial Hotel, Wallsend, from Peter M'Loughlin to Robert Allen Frew…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A verdict for £6 7s 6d, being the value of goods sold and delivered, was awarded Howard and Ball, auctioneers, against E. N. Prior, of 3 Bent-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A plea for mercy being made by Robert Davis, aged 69, convicted at the Middlesex Assizes of burglary, the Judge asked, "What is the use of extending you mercy."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"It will be a bad look out for some Australians if this boy is going to drive like this," said Sir John Blaker. the magistrate, at Brighton,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. William Gamble (34) was fined £1, with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment for being…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The charge against the Volumnia's captain, Thomas Christopher Thomas, came before the Central Police Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The usual serenity of Newcastle Court House was disturbed this morning by the appearance of a large gathering of women, many…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sophia Cain, charged with being drunk at Swansea, was fined 10s. Thomas Brown was charged with being drunk at Charlestown and was fined 10s. William…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The High Court today delivered reserved judgment on the application of the Australian Commonwealth Shipping Board against the Federated Seamen's Union of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When the police force was being reorganised after the memorable police strike in Melbourne men whose height was 5 feet 8 inches were admitted, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A seventeen-year-old jazz fiend, on being remonstrated with by her mother, dr[?] a revolver and shot her dead. After a remarkable trial, lasting four weeks, the jury found that the girl was mad, and she will be committed to an asylum…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the Newcastle Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M., Herbert Grey (28), cleaner, was fined 15s, or imprisonment for three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Rich, alias John William Richmond, 38, a salesman, was remanded until April 21, by Mr. Shropshire, S.M., at the Newcastle Police…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Chicago telegram reports that a second charge of murder confronts William Shepherd, who is already indicted on the charge of murdering William M'Clintock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A murder occurred at West Kensington, the victim being Grace Blackaller, a pretty bobbed-haired girl, aged 16 years, who was qualifying as a dancing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There was excitement at a fire which destroyed Foster's joinery works at Redfern this morning. The alarm was given by the crowd that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One of the biggest robberies in Melbourne for some time was perpetrated during the week-end. The thieves displayed great daring, operating on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says that Snessa[?], a Russian journalist, is suing the Grand Duke Cyril, for £140. in the Coburg…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An arrest was made to-day by the Maitland police in connection with two cases of alleged theft from dwellings. It was also reported that two…
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