Fight at Dawn Carrington Assault "One Hit Harry" Assailant Heavily Fined
Roused from their slumbers by sounds of battle at dawn on August 13, residents of Robinson-street, Carrington…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1926
1,903 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 65 of 96
Felt Like Murder Conductor Attacks Jazz LONDON
"If people like jazz, let them enjoy it in their own private hall," said the famous conductor, Hamilton Hardy, addressing the organists' congress at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"All Bluff" Did Not Intend to Shoot Man Sent to Gaol Sydney
A sentence of five years' penal servitude was passed at the Central Criminal Court to-day on Andrew Grant, 50, miner, who pleaded guilty to a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →POLICE v. RUM Fresh U.S.A. Campaign Guarding Roads Washington
Claiming that the rum running that have been fairly woll cleared off the tea coast, General Andrews, American prohibition director, has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Death Pact" Woman Shot in a Darlinghurst Flat Sea Captain Charged "Finish Me; Give Yourself Up and Get Hung" SYDNEY
Maurice Strymans', 38, Belgian sea captain, was arraigned at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having murdered Ruth Alma Brandt, who was found dead with two bullet wounds in her head in a flat at Darlinghurst on July 12…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. T. W. Cohen. D.S.M.) Verdict for Plaintiff
John Clark a motor driver, living in Regent-street. New Lambton, proceeded against A. Podmore, motor omnibus proprietor, claiming, £8 18s 7d as wages, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Massacre Alleged Attack on Aborigines Police Charged Darwin
Mr. Mitchell, superintendent of aborigines in Western Australia, who is a passenger on the Bambra, which left yesterday, spoke…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Turkish Plotter Sentenced LONDON
A tribunal at Angora has sentenced Abdul Cadir to death for his connection with the Smyrna plot against Kemal Pasha, but has liberated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Forged Cheque Pole Sent to Gaol GRAFTON
A middle-aged man, Frank Barnett, a native of Warsaw, Poland, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment at Grafton court, on a charge of forging…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, September 1. (Before Mr. T. W. Cohen, D.S.M.) Drunkenness
One first offender was dealt with for drunkenness, and another person, who did not appear, had his bond forfeited. Assault at Carrington…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Darlinghurst Tragedy Strymans Guilty of Murder. Sydney
The story of the shooting of Ruth Brandt, also known as Ruth Clarkson and Ruth Strymans, in a flat at Darlinghurst, on July 12, was unfolded at the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Loss of Brolga Court Censures Master SYDNEY
The Marine Court found that the stranding of the trawler Brolga was due to an error in the judgment of the master, Joseph Renton, in falling…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Tile," Not Stetson Description of a Hat Court Puzzle
Use of the term "Stotson" for an ordinary folt hat misled bench and bar in a case at Newcastle police court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Suspected Murder Melbourne
The body of Mrs. Margaret Curry aged 32, was found with her throat cut in her house at 33 Arthur-street, Fair-field…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend Police Court Thursday, September 2. (Before Mr. T. W. Cohen, D.S.M.)
One first offender who was charged with drunkenness had his bail deposit forfeited, and another was fined 5s, in default three hours' detention. James Richardson, 32,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The World Court
A message from Washington states that the report that the League Conference had accepted all but the fourth and fifth reservations in their invitation of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Small Debts Court
Nellie Jackson was given a verdict for the recovery of £2 7s 7d from G. E. Duckworth for goods sold and delivered. An amount of £1 12s 7d had been paid…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle Police Court Thursday, September 2. (Before Mr. T. W. Cohen, D.S.M.) Drunkenness
Three first offenders were dealt with for drunkennes. Williams (52), labourer, and Frederick Wilson (31), mechanic, were each fined £3, or fourteen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Girl Criminals London Police Baffled LONDON
The police who are trailing the elusive bobbed girl bandit, who is wanted for a number of robberies, have discovered the existence of a second…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murder Verdict Seamen Quarrel Ashore Filipino Shot International Complication LONDON
An English coroner has returned a verdict of murder against an American naval man who is now at sea on an American destroyer,…
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