'If King Sold Milk-' Alleged Deficient Sample Dairyman Charged
"If the King at England had sold you that milk, he would not necessarily be the agent of the supplied."—Mr. Cragg…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1928
2,504 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 126
Murder Plot Woman Shoots Official BELGRADE
Mara Boulles, the 25-year-old wife of a Bulgarian army officer, emptied as revolver into Councillor Nelimu Frelitch who was investigating an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →STRANGLED Murder in Mental Home Inmate Confesses Suicide Attempt Alleged SYDNEY
Cecil Norman Crouch, aged 23, who had been a bed-ridden inmate at Rydalmere Mental Hospital for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder of a Child
A message from Flint, Michigan, states that the elderly man who was arrested on a charge of murdering a child named Dorothy Schneider, has confessed his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, January 17. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) Drunkenness
Two first offenders, for drunkenness, were fined 5s, or 24 hours' imprisonment. Alleged Breaking and Entering…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kurri. Police Court
Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., presided at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday. Warrant Officer M'Innes, area officer, proceeded against Alexander Skene for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murder by a Youth
The fact that a youth named Prieur had robed his great-aunt of 60 francs, led to the discovery that he had fraudulently obtained a loan in her name for 600…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder of a Child
It is reported that Adolph Hotelling, the murderer of the child Dorothy Schneider, has been arraigned in a farmyard, to avoid a mob of 6000 people, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, January 18. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Three first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. Herbert Johnstone (42) pleaded not guilty to inciting a woman to resist Sergeant Harivel in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →10 Years' Gaol for Spies Who Attempted to Betray Britain's Air Secrets Spies Sentenced Ten Years' Penal Servitude "Terrible Offences" Paymaster of a Huge Organisation LONDON
Thomas McCartney, a British subject, and George Hansen, a German student, were to-day convicted of espionage at the Central Criminal Court, and were each sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Foul Play? Missing Sydney Woman Police Search Sydney
That Mrs. Stella Sylvia Kinsman, who has been missing from her home in Bourke-street, Moore Park, since March last year, met with foul play,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Attempted Murder of Prince Leopold Explosion in Fireplace (Australian Press Association.) BRUSSELS
An explosion occurred yesterday at the palace at Bellevue. Several windows were broken and a door damaged. Attendants rushed to the room, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mechanical Coursing Appeal to High Court. Sydney
It has been decided to appeal against the decision of Mr. Justice Campbell, given on October 4, that mechanical hare coursing was coursing within the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Licensing Court. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.)
A transfer was granted of the license of the Adamstown Hotel, Adamstown, from J. A. Dalton to R. H. Everson…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Out for Six Months J. Kingsley and Tiny's Court
Bad luck still continues to follow the A.R.C. trainer, J. Kingsley, who is well-known in the Newcastle district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spies Sentenced
James M'Cartoey, a British Communist, and Paul Hansen, a German student, were both found guilty yesterday of espionage on behalf of Soviet Russia, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Burglary Arrest in Newcastle
Information was received by the Newcastle police from Sydney police yesterday that a man wanted in connection with a robbery of £250 worth of goods from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Girl Charged Alleged Wangi Robbery Bank Funds
A young girl of 19, described as a nurse, was charged with having at Wangi on January 18 stolen £53 8s 1d, the property of the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stealing Charge 200 pairs of Shoes Mentioned Remand Granted
Goods valued at £250, including 200 pairs of shoes, were mentioned in the breaking, entering, and stealing choice made against…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court Thursday, January 19. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) Drunkenness
James Vaughan Horsfield, 35, was fined 10s, in default three days' imprisonment, for drunkenness. Remanded…
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