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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
2,043 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 71 of 103
MR McKELL'S attempts to ameliorate conditions in prison will ber received by this community with mixed sentiments. Some of the old eye-for-an-eye enthusiasts will hold that the less terrible the State makes prison, the more the criminal will flourish…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Edwin Freeman Naylor 30 laborer, on remand from Quirindi was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labor by Mr. Cleeve P.M…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. M'Kell, Minister for Justice, made available yesterday some further particulars of the reformatory measure he is instituting in the gaols of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A number of British seamen appeared at the Water Police Court, yesterday, to answer charges of having wilfully neglected duty. When the cases were called on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle steelworkers are jubilant over what they claim to be a complete victory in their protest against the B.H.P. Conciliation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"He called me Australian names and punched me was knocked semi-conscious," said Matthew Carter, in the Cessnock police court, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One first offender for drunkenness was fined 5s, or 24 hours' detention, and four others, who did not appear, had their bonds forfeited. Margaret Richardson…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On a charge of having maliciously damaged furniture to the extent £100. the properly of Harry Passfield, of Wickham, three young seamen,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Red Week has opened in Britain. Mr. Saklatvala, the Indian member of the House of Commons, violently attacked the British Empire, A speaker at Glasgow told his audience that he would shoot to kill if necessary…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. H. M. Cleeve, P.M., presided at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. George Jones was fined £1, with 8s costs, or seven days, for having made use…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The 20 members of the crew of the steamer Min which is held up at Newcastle were again brought before the Newcastle Police Court to-day. The magistrate (Mr. Shropshire S.M.) suggested that the charges…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The revising magistrate inspected the lists of the electors of the following municipalities, and declared them to be correst. Carrington: Mr. S. J. Dunkley, the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Henry Douglas, aged 74. was remanded until Monday by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court this morning on a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eight or the strikers, including the original president of the strike committee (J. A. Johnstone) were released from Long Bay gaol this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two persons who did not appear to answer charges of drunkenness had their bonds forfeited. Remanded…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"If it had not been for the evidence of the constable I would have convicted you. There would have been no other alternative." said Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Owing to the delay in the laying on of the water supply, the construction of the Stockton tennis courts has been held up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The hearing was resumed in the part-heard case in which John Robertson, of Hudson-street, Hamilton, proceeded against John J. Wilson and R. Newton,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The hearing of the application of the Federated Enginedrivers and Fire men's Association for an award for its member employed by the Broken…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratah Council recently asked for additional police protection at Mayfield. Last night there was a reply from Superintendent Childs, which…
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