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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
2,043 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 64 of 103
In some parts of America it is still advisable for an editor to carry a revolver. One of them after having three ribs smashed by the boot of an angry, judge drew his pistol ard fired, but killed the wrong man…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The story of an alleged assault in the Empire Hotel at Scone on July 11 was told in the Newcastle, Quarter Session before Judge White to-day, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four persons, who did not appear to answer charges of drunkenness, had their bonds forfeited. May M'Williams (48) was fined £2, in default one month's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The State Cabinet to-day commuted the death sentence passed on Cecil Henry Riby Aves for the murder of Mrs. Florence Quirk, at Redfern, to penal servitude…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maud Gay, represented by Mr. T. A. Braye, proceeded against Frank Redding, of 15 Union-street, Wickham, on a charge that, on August 14, in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend court-house and the buildings attached to it are in a state of deplorable disrepair. The main building encroaches on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. David Rankin, for riding a bicycle on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Allen Harry Charleston appeared before Mr. Shropshire, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day on a charge of having driven a car which he did…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thomas Bryant, 43, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having assaulted Charles Smith, at Newcastle, on June 10, thereby occasioning him actual bodily harm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arthur Pearce (28) was charged with having maliciously wounded William Joseph Bowen, at Scone, on July 11. There was a secondary count of assault,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Screaming at the top of her voice, and with blood streaming from three serious wounds, caused by bullets from a revolver, a woman staggered into a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There was an echo of the Stockton assault case in the Newcastle Quarter Sessions to-day, when John Evett Boyce, 14, pleaded guilty to two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The final function in the police and Citizens' effort in aid of Wallsend Hospital, took the form of a social at the Masonic Hall on Monday evening, when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. Robert Hindmarch (56) was fined 10s, in default, three days imprisonment, for drunkenness. Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Charged with shooting at Molly Colling last night, with intend to murder her, Harold Herbert Wild Collins, 29, laborer appeared before the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A gang of safebreakers who are at present baffling the police is said to have come from New South Wales. Although the police are maintaining…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Transfers were granted of the following publicans' licenses:—N. watt to F. E. Herbert, Watt's Family Hotel, Islington; Eva Shaw-Smith to W. J…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A dispute between the Fassifern Coal Company and the Federal Commissioner for Taxation over the amount of wartime profits tax due from the former…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Jacob Johnson, or Johannsen, appeared before Mr. Justice Long-Innes in the Equity Court this afternoon to show cause why a writ of attachment,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the case Vera May Prebble (Judgment creditor) v. Walter Crosble (Judgment debtor), Michael Christopher Grosble (garnishee), the garnishee had…
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