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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1928

2,504 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 126

Speeding Charge Police Allege 50 m.p.h. Driver Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 March 1928 · page 5

Can a Ford lorry travel at 40 miles an hour? This Question was debated at length at Newcastle Summons Court to-day, when Harold Cates, a…

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"I'll Cut Your Throat" Maitland Porter Threatened Razor Flourished Darlinghurst Woman Before Court

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 March 1928 · page 5

"I'll draw my razor on you," threatened Ruby Kaile, to George Cook, a railway porter, at the West Maitland station on Thursday night last, according to the evidence of Cook, at West Maitland Police Court to-day…

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West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Francis Ernest Jarvis was charged with having been drunk, and with having used…

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Assault on Girl Youth Sentenced Motor Car Case Release to be Recommended

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

Harry Ronald Young, who was charged with having assaulted a girl, occasioning actual bodily harm, was sentenced to 12 months'…

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Sentences for Stealing

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

Alfred Watisbuhl, who was charged with breaking and entering and stealing, was sentenced to imprisonment for six months, concurrent with a…

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Fighting in Streets Cessnock Police Court Cases

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

On charges of riotous behavior in Main-street, Cessnock, at 8 o'clock on Saturday night, Edward James Mitchell and Cecil James Hill were each…

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Gaol for Three Years

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

Thomas Robertson and Eric Wilson, who were charged with nine charges of breaking and entering and stealing were each sentenced to three years'…

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Alleged Assault Counter Charges Struck Out

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

On the application of Mr. Street (for Gow), the case at Newcastle Summons Court to-day, in which Harry Silvers Gow proceeded against…

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Youth Gaoled Assault on Constable Sessions Sentences

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

John Harding, a youth of 19, who had been charged with an assault upon a constable at Morisset, was sentenced to nine months'…

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Young Man's Offence Gaol for Three Years

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

Leonard Richard Curtis, a young man who was charged with having committed a serious offence on a girl, was sentenced to three years'…

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Alleged Conspiracy Nurse and Chemist Charged Cessnock Case

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

Walter Moorcroft Winning, a chemist, and Catherine Margaret Coulter, a nurse, again appeared before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., at Cessnock Police…

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Newcastle Police Court Monday, March 19. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 7

Five persons, who had been locked up for drunkenness and were released on bail, did not appear, Their bonds were forfeited. Another first offender, on a…

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Maitland District Young Girl's Death Alleged Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

The public accommodation of the West Maitland Court-house was crowded yesterday afternoon, when Mr. D. W. Reed, coroner, held an inquiry into the…

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Murder Charge Nurse Committed for Trial Maitland Inquest

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

At the conclusion of the inquest at Maitland last night concerning the death of Annie Elizabeth Clare Carter, aged 17, Mr. Reid committed Emaline…

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Death in Court Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

Mr. William Livingstone, aged 50, a grazier, of Toolamba, was a witness in the Insolvency Court, this afternoon, and was giving evidence when he remarked…

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Colliery Staffs Applications to Court. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 4

Mr. E. J. Kavanagh, Deputy Industrial Commissioner, to-day had before him an application made on behalf of the United Collieries Staff Association for, a…

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Fainted in Court Refused to Give Evidence

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

When Walter Scott, 60, gardener, appeared before Mr. Perry. S.M., at Newcastle Police Court this morning on a charge of having used…

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"Quite Enough Police" Supt Beatty's Contention Reply to Council

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

"The matter doesn't cal for any comment. There are Quite enough police in Newcastle, and we can't help the remarks made…

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Shot by Police Story at the Inquest. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 4

The circumstances of the shouting of William Henry Wilks, a suspected burglar, by Constable Burn, at Manly, on March 16, were related to the Sydney…

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Mining Lease Appeal to Supreme Court SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

In the appeal, by Caledonian Collieries, Ltd., against A. A. Holland, in respect of a decision from the Warden's…

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