East Maitland Police Court
Mr. D. W. Reid, P.M., presided at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. Robert Campbell was fined £3, with £1/10/ costs, for having behaved in a…
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Courts & crime, 1929
2,785 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 140
Police Court Friday, January 11. (Before Mr. T. W. Cohen, R.s.m.) Drunkenness
On charges of drunkenness, three first offenders, were each fined 5/, in default, three hours' imprisonment, and another forfeited his bond…
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Dramatic scenes occurred at the Old Bailey yesterday, when Robert Williams (28) underwent a second trial for the murder of a housemaid in Hyde Park…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Breaking in Man Burgled Gaol Ex-digger Blamed. Paris, December 2
An Australian-bound ship is bearing towards one or other of the poriz, dispu[?]sed as a member of the crow, a former deserter from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Caught Baby Woman Threw It Police Shock Fast Dash to Hexham
Hushing by motor cycle to a house in the swamp area near Hexham last night, after receiving a frantic message that a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strange Court Under "Open" Sky Blacks' Inquiry Alice Springs
A court of inquiry could hardly have found less conventional surroundings in which to conduct the proceedings than those under…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Thieves' Big Haul Hunter-street Burglary Modern Bill Sykes
Bank notes, silver, and cheques, of the total value of about £164, together with a number of private papers valueless to the thieves, but of importance to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aristocrat Sentenced Drowned His Son Devil's Island Decade
All Franco has been impassioned by the sensational murder trial at Toulouse in which the principal figures are Plerre de Rayssac, a young man…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Attorney Charged Bribery and Conspiracy Los Angeles
Jacob Bowman, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven years' Imprisonment for wrecking the Julian Petroleum Company's plant, which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder Charge Domestic Tragedy Brisbane
Thomas Chrystal, 68 years of age, residing at Woody Point, near Brisbane, was on Saturday night arrested on a charge of the wilful murder of his son-in-law,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mysterious Murder at Southampton London
Scotland Yard is investigating the mysterious murder of Vivian Minister, 55, Southampton manager of an American oil company…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Under the Beds When Police Posse Arrived Hotel Raided
Visiting the General Roberts Hotel New Lambton, after hours on December 14, Sergeant Tookill said at Newcastle Court to-day that he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MYSTERY Murder of Oil Man No Clues of Decomposed Body Found LONDON
"A perfect crime, from the murderer's viewpoint," is how ex-Chief Inspector Brust, of Scotland Yard, describes the baffling mystery at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Perfect Murder" Baffles Scotland Yard Detectives "Uneventful Day" But King Slowly Improving Condition Steady Official Statement from Palace LONDON, Sunday Night
Though no official bulletin was issued to-day, for the first time since the King's illness commenced, it was officially stated to-night that His Majesty had had "a quiet, uneventful, but slowly improving day."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stealing Charge
Francis Terence Merrick (20), orer, was remanded by Mr. Cohen at Newcastle Police Court to-day, on a charge of having stolen, on or about…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Girl and Boy Charged
During the hearing of a case heard before him at the Parramatta Court yesterday, the magistrate sought to have a marriage arranged between the parties,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Razor Battle Ship's Fireman Charged
The sequel to the fracas in a house in Brown-street on Friday night, in which two men were alleged to have been concerned in a razor-slashing incident, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court Case
In the report of a case at Newcastle Police Court yesterday, the name of a man convicted of having been found on licensed premises after…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Southampton Murder Fresh Discovery London
Scotland Yard is now satisfied that Vivian Messiter, whose body was found in a padlocked private garage on Friday, was murdered while he was bending over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court Monday, January 14. (Before Mr. T. W. Cohen, R.s.m.) Drunkenness, &c
Five first offenders, were dealt with for drunkenness. Victor Walmsley, 25, labourer, was fined 20/ in default seven days' imprisonment, for being found…
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