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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1926

1,903 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 96

West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1926 · page 6

Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. George Lonie was charged with…

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Newcastle Police Court Monday, March 22. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1926 · page 7

Three persons who did not appear to answer charges of drunkenness had their bonds forfeited. John Leech, 28, seaman, was charged with being drunk, to…

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America and World Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1926 · page 5

A message from Washington states that the World Court resolution, as adopted by the Senate on January 27, contained five reservations. First, adherence to the…

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Back to Gaol Found Under Bed Escapee Re-taken Cairns

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1926 · page 3

Suspicions Unit Thomas Samuel Hood, one of the two escapees from Stewart's Crock gaol, was lurking in Innisfail, proved correct. The police…

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Turned Drug Dealer Woman Prohibition Agent Suicide in Gaol San Francisco

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1926 · page 1

The suicide of Daley Simpson, has ended the most picturesque career in the history of prohibition enforcement on the Pacific Coast…

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Penrith Murder Father Sent for Trial Killed with Axe Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1926 · page 5

The evidence of Dr. Higgins, at Penrith to-day, at the inquest concerning the death of Ada M. Watson, the 22-year-old daughter of a Kingswood…

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Rylands Brothers in the Industrial Court Judge Beeby's Award Rescinded Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1926 · page 4

In the Full Industrial Court to-day the award made by Judge Beedy on March 17 last increasing the piece-work rates for the employees of Rylands Brothers…

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Night Raid How "Gurrawheen" was Entered Hodgson Divorce Case Jostling Crowd Enters Court to Hear Evidence SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1926 · page 5

The fifth day of the Hodgson divorce suit opened before another jostling crowd in Mr. Justice Owen's Court to-day, with the frail, nervous witness, Mrs. Dykes, still in the box. Following a suggestion that her nervousness was caused by…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1926 · page 5

Giacomo Bonomini was charged with having, on March 5, 1926, at Abernethy, assaulted William Callaghan and robbed him of £5 10s. Accused pleaded not…

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The Fascist Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1926 · page 7

At the close of the evidence of the trial at Chieti of the men charged with the murder of M. Mattcotti, the public prosecutor, in a singular whitewashing speech,…

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Industrial Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1926 · page 9

There is a lengthy list of case set down for hearing before Mr. Addison, Chief Industrial Magistrate, at the Newcastle Courthouse to-morrow and on…

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Two Charges Alleged School Theft Intent to Steal

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 March 1926 · page 6

Rudolph Asmussen, alias Thompson, 41. a trimmer, was charged, before Mr. Shropshire, S.M., at the Newcastle Police Court to-day, with…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, March 23. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1926 · page 5

John Flannagan, 30, was fined 15, or three days' imprisonment, for drunkenness and £3, or one month's imprisonment, for having made use of…

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Missing Ketch Murder Plot Feared DARWIN

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 March 1926 · page 4

It is believed that disaster has overtaken the 22-ton ketch, John Alice, which left here two months ago for Thursday Island, with two…

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Cruel Knight Grand Parents Divorced "Mental Murder" London

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 March 1926 · page 1

Lady Gibley, after 42 years of married life, has secured a divorce from Sir Walter Gibley, on the grounds of misconduct and cruelty…

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Comic Opera Trial Indulgent Public Prosecutor Italian Murder London

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 March 1926 · page 1

The correspondent of "The Times" at Rome says that the public prosecutor at the trial of the Fascists, who are accused of having murdered the…

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Licensing Court (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1926 · page 5

John Edward Maisey was authorised to erect a motor garage in the yard of the Criterion Hotel, Wickham. Robert E. Goldie was granted…

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One a Minute Court's Busy Day Motorists Fined Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 March 1926 · page 3

One a minute. That was the rate at which Mr. McDougall, S.M., in the Water Police Court to-day tackled a pile of charge sheets, in…

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Movie Mystery Who Murdered Film Director? Fresh Clues Mabel Normand to be Questioned by Police

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 March 1926 · page 1

Hopes are expressed that the mystery surrounding the murder of William Taylor Desmond, a movie director, at Los Angeles, in 1922, win be cleared up. The District Attorney says that he has new clues and that he intends…

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Kurri Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1926 · page 6

Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.M., presided at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday. Richard John Smith and Roy Davies…

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