Double Tragedy Murder and Suicide at Gulgong Son Sees Mother Shot GULGONG
Gulgong was the scene of murder and suicide at 6.30 p.m. yesterday, when Arthur Henry Morton, a single man,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1927
2,114 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 56 of 106
Petty Sessions Cases New Court Arrangement Districts Amalgamated
From August 1 the Newcastle Petty Sessions district will come into being. The Under-Secretary to the Department of Justice informed New…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →48 Hours Pay Ironworkers' 44-Hour Week Application to Court
An application by the Federation Ironworkers' Association for variation of the Federal award will be heard before Judge Dethridge in the Full…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Bribed Police" "Books" Accused Money in Boots South Australian Inquiry ADELAIDE
Slipping money into the riding boots of mounted constables. Dropping Treasury notes on the hotel floors in sight of police for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →150 YEARS! Man's Gaol Sentences SYDNEY
A witness, brought from goal to give evidence at Darlinghurst Sessions yesterday said that he was 35 years of age, and admitted that his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ship Pilfering Wharfies go to Gaol SYDNEY
That the losses by pillaging ships' cargoes in N.S.W. amounted to about £30,000 a year was the statement made by Police Inspector Lynch…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court Thursday, July 28. (Before Mr. H. H. MacDougal, S.M.) Bound Over
Hazckiah James Hadwell (28), labourer, represented by Mr. T. A. Braye, was charged with stealing, at Newcastle, on March 7, a cheque book and £3, of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Everywhere South Johnstone Quiet CAIRNS
The South Johnstone district is fairly bristling with police and the situation is again very quiet. The mill crushed as usual…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Trial Church-St. Case: Murder Charge Insanity Defence SYDNEY
The Full Court of Criminal Appeals to-day quashed the conviction and ordered a new trial in the case of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Land Dispute. Appeals to Full Court. Sydney
The Full Court, sitting in Sydney, to-day commenced the hearing of two appeals against verdicts given in the Circuit Court at East Maitland last April…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →To Federal Court 'Bus Owners' Decision Fares May Rise Melbourne
The president of the Motor 'Bus Proprietors' Association (Mr. F. Stewart) announced to-day that the Federal Arbitration Court will be asked…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Trunk Murder Case
The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal of John Robinson, condemned to death for the murder of Mrs. Minnie Bonati, whose dismembered body was found…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, July 29. (Before Mr. H. H. Macdougal, S.M.) Drunkenness
Five first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. Joseph Grant, 59, was fined 5s or three hours' imprisonment and William Fulton, 51, was fined £2, in default,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Two Men Stabbed Affray in Greek Club Slav Charged Melbourne
With blood running from their legs, two Greeks rushed out of a club in Lonsdalc-street just before midnight, screaming that they had been stabbed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brutal Murder Chinese Storekeeper Hit on Head Three Arrests Assailants Ransacked Dead Man's Shop BRISBANE
Three men, Joseph O'Dea, James McLauchlin, and George Williams, have been arrested in Townsville on a charge of having wilfully murdered a Chinese storekeeper, Lee Gum See, in a shop on the Charters Towers-road…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Air Manoeuvres Foreshadow Future Horrors Plot That Failed Robbers Tunnel for Banknotes Surprised by Police One Killed and Five Others Arrested
Robbers in Poland fly at big game. Some of them attempted to tunnel into the State Printing Works with a view to annexing the day's output of banknotes, but were discovered when about to succeed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£30 for Assault Toowoomba
Walter Neale, who won the Brisbane Cup at Ascot recently with Ken tie, which has since been purchased by a Sydney sportsman, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. O'higgins' Murder
Owen Donnelly, one of the ten youths arrested in connection with the murder of Mr. O'Higgins, and who was detained in custody when the other nine were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Saturday, July 30. Before Mr. I. Beavern, J.P. Drunkenness, Etc
Two first offenders, who had boon looked up for drunkenness and had been release on ball did not appear. Their bonds were forfolted. Harold Jewkes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Arson Fire in Grocer's Shop Man Charged. Sydney
That a fire was started in a grocer's shop in Paddington yesterday by a quantity of matches being stacked around an electric…
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