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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1928

2,504 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 55 of 126

Funeral Stopped Mysterious Death of Seaman Police Action Died Without Explaining Injury

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 June 1928 · page 5

Newcastle police are investigating the suggestion that foul play caused the death of Victor Olsen, 42, a seaman, who died in Newcastle Hospital on Saturday. The funeral was advertised to have been held to-day,…

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Stroud Assault

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 June 1928 · page 5

Herbert Bruce Pritchnell was remanded for sentence when he pleaded guilty before Judge White at the Maitland Quarter Sessions to-day to…

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Stealing Charge Laborer Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 June 1928 · page 5

Charged at Newcastle police court to-day with having on June 19. stolen a watch and chain valued at £1 10s the property of George Barwick…

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Alleged Assault Baby Girl in a 'Bus Old Man in Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 June 1928 · page 5

On a change of having at Cessnock on May [?] assaulted and committed an act of indecency on a child aged and 11…

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West Maitland Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1928 · page 6

Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday Robert J. Mead was fined 18s, in…

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Newcastle Police Court Monday, June 25. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1928 · page 6

Upon charges of drunkenness, the bonds of half a dozen first offenders were forfeited, and George Warburton (43) was fined £2, in default, 14 days'…

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District News. Wallsend. Police Buildings

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1928 · page 5

Mr. R. Gilmore, of Merewether, the successful tenderer for renovations and additions to the police sergeant's quarters in Harris-street, has entered upon the…

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Death in Hospital Police Investigating

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 June 1928 · page 5

At 2.15 a.m. to-day the death occurred at Wallsend Hospital of a woman who was admitted in a serious condition on June 24…

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Another Remand Williamtown Case Murder Charge Inquest on

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 June 1928 · page 5

Charles Henry Jackson charged with having murdered Richard Moxey, at Williamstown. and James Dent. charged with having…

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The Jervis Bay Arrival at Colombo Preliminary Inquiry Stowaways Removed to Gaol (Australian Press Association.) COLOMBO

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1928 · page 5

The Jervis Bay arrived in harbour at 10 a.m. to-day. An inquiry was conducted immediately on board, in the presence of officials…

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Reckless Stowaways Pay Penalty for their Folly on the Jervis Bay Stowaways Gaoled Court Sequel to Jervis Bay Trouble Thrilling Story Deliberate Attempt to Set Fire to Steamer "Will Cut Officers to Pieces" Colombo

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 June 1928 · page 1

The eight stowaways on the Jervis Bay, on whom for nearly a week the eyes of the world have been focused, were to-day convicted on four of the five charges preferred against them, with the total imprisonment for each man of five months and two weeks…

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Coining Plant Police Raid at Concord Italian Charged Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 27 June 1928 · page 6

Raiding a house at Concord at 12.30 a.m. to-day, the pollen found a coining plant and several counterfeit florins. Inside the house a foreigner was…

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Railway Cash Theft Charge Fails. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 June 1928 · page 6

A remarkable story was unfolded at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, when William Sullivan, aged 48, was charged with having stolen £1673, and a number of…

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"Like Its Mother" Identification of Cow Stealing Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 27 June 1928 · page 7

On a charge of having stolen a better, three years ago, Oliver Lumby, a drover and cattle-dealer, appeared before Judge White and a jury, at…

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Williamtown Murder Accused Again Remanded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 June 1928 · page 7

Charles Henry Jackson (23), labourer, and James Dent (21), labourer, again appeared before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M., at the Newcastle Police Court yesterday…

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By 'Plane! Modem Gaol-Breaker Buenos Ayres

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 27 June 1928 · page 1

Major Yaidasarre, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for the murder of a fellow-officer, escaped from a military prison dressed as…

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Death of a Newsboy Motorist Charged. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 June 1928 · page 7

The driver of the car which, after killing Ivan Riley, 13, a newsboy, in Queen's-parade, Clifton Hill, last night, drove on without stopping, called at…

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Kurri Bankruptcy Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 27 June 1928 · page 7

In the Bankruptcy Court at Kurri to-day, Charles Andrew Peak, a miner, of Heddon Greta, told Mr. Reed, P.M., that the cause of his banicruptcy…

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Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, June 26. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.). Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 June 1928 · page 4

Upon charges of drunkenness, one first offender was fined 5s, in default detention to the rising of the court, and William Clarke (51), labourer, was fined 10s, with…

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Sydney Woman's Death Police Investigations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 June 1928 · page 6

Mrs. Essie Vera Martin, 27 years of age, died in Wallsend Mining District Hospital at a quarter-past two o'clock yesterday morning, under conditions which…

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