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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,903 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 96
Harold Walker was charged with driving a motor vehicle at Belmont without a number plate being affixed thereto. He pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s, with 8s…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cases have not been disposed of at the Quarter Sessions as speedily as the authorities anticipated, and yesterday afternoon Mr. Crawford, the Crown…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Samuel Enstwood (30), fireman, was fined 10s, or three days' imprisonment, for laving been drunk, and £5, or 14 days, for having made use of improper language is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two policemen answering an early morning call from Merewether on July 16, found a man roped by the legs in front of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →By challenging two jurors, Carlton Morse, charged with breaking, entering and stealing, at Mayfield, on July 2, exhausted the panel, as only one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"It is a very great relief," said Mr. H. C. Mac[?] to-day, commenting on the report from Java that Mandoor Entjim, a native, had confessed that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Constable Curtis fired three shots over the head of a man who was running from him and Constable Layburn in Wilde-street, Redforn, last…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The native boy, Entjim, has confessed that he killed Mrs. Macfie and that Ruben Rachman assisted. Entjim stated that Ruben, a runner…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Re John Pearce, of Mayfield. Mr. F. Street appeared on behalf of Messrs. J. Frost and Son, and Gerald Levey, creditors. Bankrupt attributed has insolvency…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A demented man in a house in Milton Terrace, Dawes Point, after threatening his mother with a meat chopper,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Westminster police court, overruling the girl's mother's objection, consented to the marriage of Violet Spong, aged 20, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steve Politis (46) was charged with breaking, entering and stealing from the dwelling of Robert Wright Griffiths, at Merewether, on July 16, 1926. Accused…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Durrant, aged 39 years, a coaltrimmer, living at 15 Robertson-street, Carrington, was admitted to the Newcastle Hospital yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unable to agree on the case in which Arthur Nowland, of Cessnock, was charged with an assault on a young girl, at Abermain, the jury was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two persons, charged for the first time with drunkenness, had their bonds forfeited. James Richardson, 32, was fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The first appearance of the Duke of York in an open lawn tennis tournament provided an interesting contrast between the sporting way in which members of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →"I saw a little child crying on the Bank Corner. 'What's the matter darling. Would a penny help to make you better?" I said. "I opened my…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A sporting millionaire has been charged in England with the murder of a men who had been his close friend since their school days. Both the deed man and the man charged with his murder are well-known social figures, and the latter is married to a descendent of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Your steers outside the Newcastle court-house were exhibits in a case of alleged cattle stealing, heard at the Quarter Sessions to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A first offender, for being drunk, was ordered to be imprisoned until the rising of the court. The defendant was a feeble old man, his age being given as 70…
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