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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
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Four first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. Timothy Patterson, 27, miner, was fined £3, with the alternative of one month's imprisonment, for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At Newcastle Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M., one first offender for drunkenness, was fined 5s, or 24 hours' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Considerable comment has been aroused in Pekin by the fact that Lu Cheng Wu has not been arrested for killing General Hsu Shut Seng…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Soviet authorities at Leningrad have published for the first time the details of the murder of the imperial family in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the inquest into the death of Edward Richards, at Trowbridge, a fellow employee, who was also a sub-tenant of Richards in the house, gave evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five further charges of breaking and entering were preferred against Frank Lamount, allas Joe Mankavich, 20, seaman, at Newcastle Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is reported from Athens that an echo of the Greek defeat in Anatolia in 1922 is contained in an announcement by the Military Council, which has been inquiring…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One first offender, who had been locked up for being drunk, and was admitted to ball, did not appear. His bond was forfeited. Marshall Bell (48) and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Forty men are still bunting a full blooded aborigine along the banks of the Darling River in the Brewarrina district. They want him in connection with the death of Robert Burns, a half-caste 8 year old boy, whose body was found floating in the river…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Bruce Strokes was charged that, being…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Take that!" said a brother of Polly Walker, who was found strangled on New Year's morning, striking the man who has been accused of murdering her a violent blow as he was entering the Coroner's Court in London…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"He put his head around the corner and poked a face at me." said Sergeant Harrival, at Newcastle Police Court to-day, when Thomas Davis was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A charge of assault ana robbery was preferred against Lancolot James Matthews, 28, dealer, at Newcastle Police Court to-day. On the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The members of the police force are desirous of participating in the shorter working week. Representations were made to-day by the Police Association to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The aborigine hunted by police and civilians for nine days following the discovery of a half-caste child's body bruised and blooding in the Darling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One first offender, for drunkenness, was fined 5s, or 24 hours' detention; and eleven others, who did not appear, had their bonds forfeited. For drunkenness,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"You are sentenced to three months imprisonment in the second division." said the Commissioner at the Winchester Assizes, addressing a young…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the opinion of the Royal Automobile Club of Australia there is urgent need for a special traffic court. In a statement on the subject the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →While returning to Townsville from Palm Island on the steamer Malanda last Wednesday night, in charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Patrick Joseph Clomenger, aged 26, a seaman, was charged at Newcastle Police Court to-day wit having stolen a wristlet watch valued at…
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