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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1926

1,903 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 42 of 96

Back to Gaol Struggle for Freedom LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 June 1926 · page 1

After a violent struggle. Marks, the prisoner who escaped from Wormwood Scrubs gaol, was recaptured at Houndsditch, where it was known that…

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Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, June 9.(Before Mr. T.G. Cohen. D.S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 June 1926 · page 3

One person, charged with drunkenness, did not appear, and his bond was forfeited. Motor Traffic Act…

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Deeper Gloom British Coal Position Grows Worse Parties Embittered Soviet Charged With Trying to Foment Revolution

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 June 1926 · page 1

The failure of the conference between the British miners and colliery [?] is generally believed to have made the position [?]orse. Recriminations are flying, and the atmosphere is unfavorable to conciliation…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 10

Before Mr. T. G. Cohen, D.S.M. at the Newcastle Police Court yesterday two of fenders charge for the first time with drunkenness were each fined 5s with…

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Charlestown Police Court Thursday, June 10. (Before Mr. T. G. Cohen, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 3

Vincent Timmins, charged with being drunk at Belmont, pleaded guilty, and was fined 20s, or seven days, V. R. Taaffe was charged with making use of…

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Job for Police Merewether Sunday Football

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 7

F. Lockyer, secretary of Newcastle United Soccer Football Club, informed Merewether Council last night that no members of his club played football…

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"Not a Show" Applause in Court

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 8

The jury in the case against Bertha Muriel Cook, charged at Newcastle Sessions with having unlawfully used an instrument, retired at 10 a.m…

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Perjury Charge Newcastle Court Echo "I Was Not Afraid"

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 8

At Newcastle Quarter Sessions to-day, before Judge White, James Edward Cooper pleaded not guilty to a charge of perjury…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 6

At the East Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.M., Edward Darcy consented to a prohibition order being issued against him for…

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Ex-senator Sentenced Benjamin Benny's Lapses ADELAIDE

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 4

A sentence of three years' imprisonment, with hard labor, was imposed upon ex-Senator Benjamin Benny in the Criminal Court on two charges of…

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Bay Rum Running Kid Lewis Charged LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 1

Kid Lewis, the former lightweight boxing champion of the world, was summoned to attend at the police court at Dover on a charge of having…

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Sent to Gaol Woman Sly Grog Seller SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 4

Charged with selling liquor without a license, Rose Mariton aged 37 years of 246 Palmer-street, city, appeared before Mr. Laidlaw, S.M., at the…

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Newcastle Police Court Friday, June 11. (Before Mr. T. G. Cohen, D.s.m.) Summons Division. Liquor Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 3

Myles McDonald, of the Cricketers' Arms Hotel, Cook's Hill, pleaded guilty to a charge of having obtained liquor at the Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle,…

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Murder of a Girl on a Bush Road Ipswich (Q.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 4

A shocking tragedy was enacted on the Ipswich-Rosewood-road early yesterday morning. Christina Louise Bade, aged 18, who had been missed from her…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 June 1926 · page 7

The only case set down for Newcastle police Co[?]t on Saturday was that of a man who had for the first time been charged with drunkenness. His bond was…

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Queensland Murder Action by Police Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 June 1926 · page 5

Subsequent to the funeral of Louise Bade, the victim of the murder at Ebenezer, in the Ipswich district, Detectives M'Ivor and James stopped a motor car…

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Gaol for Beiler Embezzlement Sentence

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 June 1926 · page 5

"I have nothing further to add; I plead not guilty," said Leslie Ronald Boiler, when he came up for sentence before Judge White in Newcastle…

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"Horrifying Thing" Youth Sent to Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 June 1926 · page 5

"There must be something radically wrong with your disposition or your mental capacity. That a young fellow of your ago should take an iron bar…

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Young Woman's Death Police Investigating

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 June 1926 · page 4

The sudden death of a young woman, which occurred at 52 Union-street, Wickham, on Saturday night, is engaging the attention of the police. The young…

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Tragedy at Penshurst Double Murder and Suicide Man, Wife, and Child. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 June 1926 · page 5

A terrible tragedy was enacted at a house in Belmont-avenue, Penshurst, a suburb of Sydney, on the Illawarra line, to-day. A man shot his wife and child,…

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