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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
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Robert Edward Goldie, 31, on bail, pleaded guilty to a charge of being found drunk in Tyrrell-street. Wallsend, on December 29, and was fined 10s, in default,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two first offenders who did not appear to answer charges of drunkenness had their bonds forfeited. Remanded…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →After an exciting chase the police early this morning arrested six youths who aroused suspicion by driving into Goulburn in an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Commissioner of Police Mr. James Mitchell, in reply to representations made by Mr. J. P. Idstein, secretary to the Maitland and District Chamber of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sickness and slackness of work were given as the reasons for his bankruptcy by Edward Cummings, before Mr. Reed, P.M., in the East…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Why were you so positive a woman couldn't have done it?" "To begin with; it wasn't a woman's crime—that is, no woman would have…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In re Robert Bashford, minor, of Maud-street. Belmont, Liabilities £101 1s 9d, assets nil. Bankrupt said he was employed at Dunloch Colliery, Belmont,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sydney Goulter, who was sentenced to death on December 5 for the murder of Constance Oliver, a typiste, aged 21, in Richmond Park, London, was executed at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When Gilbert wrote that "a policeman's lot is not a happy one," the conditions of service were vastly different from those prevailing to-day. The pay was poor,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →William McMillan Bell, 28, mess boy, was charged that, at Carrington, he did inflict grievous bodily harm on George Walker. As the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Major Benson surrounded himself With, an array of counsel such as is rarely seen in car criminal courts. Both Blashfield and Bauer were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →When a motor car containing six boys, only one of whom is over 17 years dashed in to Goulburn at an early hour this morning and continued on its way after the police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sharp reprimand was given to motor cyclists who cause uproar by having noisy "cut outs" on their cycles or who do not have efficient silencers,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miguel Avila, the Mexican half-breed gentleman, who furnished the Hearst Press with the curious documents designed to show that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ernest Ambrose Kleinert 20, son of a Mitcham orchardist, has been charged with the murder of Mrs. Iolene Marx Sampson, 27, of Mitcham, who was found…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Year's Eve this year was the first for many years that there was not an outbreak of vandalism in Wickham and Islington parks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The police to-day received a report from Sydney that a youth and two girls members of a party of four who are wanted in connection with the theft of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ernest Ambrose Kleinert, aged 20, orchard hand, of Mitcham-road, who reported the discovery of the death ot Mrs. Mary Sampson, at Mitcham,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Justice Campbell yesterday morning delivered the judgment of the marine Court which inquired into the causes of the collision between the ferry steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Leslie J. House was fined 5s, with 8s costs, for having smoked in the auditorium…
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