Food Relief Instructions to Police
A section recently added to the police standing Instructions regarding unemployment rellof says: "In bona-flde cases of distress…
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Courts & crime, 1928
2,504 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 126
Missing Jewellery Young Man in Court
At Newcastle Quarter Sessions to-day, Thomas Joseph Neal, a young man, was charged with, on December 4, breaking and entering the shop of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Not Fit for Pig" Wallsend Police Station Council Protest
That conditions were so had at the local police station that one of the cells to be used for sleeping quarters, was a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Sessions Thursday, March 15. (Before His Honor Judge White.) Mr. T. S. Crawford, Crown Prosecutor. Hamilton Park Assault
When the Court resumed, further evidence was given in the case in which Leonard Richard Curtis, represented by Mr. H. L. O'Neill, had pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →200 MORE Sydney Police Force Cabinet Decision Fighting Razor Gangs SYDNEY
Pending an alteration of the law to provide for the flogging of persons using razer blades as weaspons. the Government will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Black Eyes Man and Wife in Court Blood-splashed Rooms Sydney
With both eyes blackened and her lips cut and bruised, Madge Beverstock (28) appeared at the Central Police Court to-day on a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Paris Murder
A telegram from Paris states that, after being questioned for twenty hours, from 9 o'clock to 4.30 a.m., with only brief intervals for meals, the jeweller,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Girl Bandit Fourteen Years' Gaol Robbed a Bank
A bobbed-haired girl bandit who was mid to be suffering from a Napoleonic Obsession was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment for robbing a bank at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Anti Gun Law Another Man Charged SYDNEY
When Raymond Nell, of Gaffney, aged 27, laborer, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day, with having carried an unlicensed revolver, he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court Friday, March 16. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) Drunkenness
A fine of 5s, or the rising of the court, was imposed on a first offender charged with drunkenness, and the bond of another was forfeited…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Queensland Tragedy Murder and Suicide. Brisbane
Macknade, a small town near Ingham, was the scene of a shooting tragedy this morning, as a result of which Mrs. Catona Guiffire was shot dead, and her assailant,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Exciting Police Chase Sydney
There was a sensational police chase in Darlinghurst to-night. Constable Aldridge had occasion to arrest a man for offensive behaviour, and was taking him…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Sessions Friday, March 16. (Before his Honor Judge White.) (Mr. T. S. Crawford, Crown Prosecutor.) Guilty of Assault
When the court resumed, further evidence was given in the case in which Harry Ronald Young, represented by Mr. N. McGhie, instructed by Messrs. Braye,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Naval Sensation Reported Court Martial on Flagship Royal Oak (Australian Press Association.) LONDON
The Malta correspondent of the Central News Agency states that there has been considerable speculation as to the delay in sailing of the first battle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court
At the Newcastle Police Court, on Saturday, before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M. five first offenders, who had been looked up for being drunk, and released on ball,…
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On four charges of having in his possession on March 17 goods reasonably suspected of having been stalon: of entering the premises of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Horse Shot Police Court Charge Maitland Case
Alfred George Murray, a builder, of Beresford, appeared before Mr. Reed. P.M., in West Maitland Police Court to-day, on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stealing Charges Guilty of Receiving
James Vaughn Horsfield pleaded not guilty at Newcastle Quarter Sessions to-day on two charges, one of breaking, entering and stealing at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Do for You" Alleged Assault Woman's Story "Kicked Her in Face"
"There's only one woman that I want, and I'll do ten years for her." This, according to evidence at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wife's Death Charge of Murder Husband on Trial Sydney
That there was no direct evidence against the accused was a statement made to-day by the Crown Prosecutor at the Central Criminal Court, when…
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