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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
2,785 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 57 of 140
One first offender was dealt with for drunkenness, and six persons, who did not appear, had their bonds forfeited. Leslie Smith (34) and Jack Bradley (60)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. M. C. Nott, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Roy Reginald Russell pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge of having ridden a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The secretary of the National Safety Council (Victoria) says that in considering the increased number of accidents, increases in traffic and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commenting to-day on the prevalence of accidents on Maitland-road, the police thought that many of them were caused by speeding. Absence of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Inspector Scales, Chief Officer of the Licensing Police, is taking drastic action against seven Ballarat hotels figuring in the recent betting prosecutions. He has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. M. C. Nott, P.M., presided at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. William Hedley was charged with having used improper language. Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lawrie Craft was charged with having, at Cessnock, on June 7, stolen a salt shake, the property of John Valakis, and on the same date Garnic Craft was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Crossing Denison-street, Hamilton, on the night January 26, a boy was knocked down by a motor car. The driver of the car, Luke Cooper Ford,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →John O'Conner (42), labourer, charged with drunkenness, did not appear, and his bail bond of 10/ was forfeited, REMANDED…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joseph Simons and his brother William, members at wealthy Asyrian family, conducted a garage In Flinders-street, one of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hodgson's, Ltd., Newcastle, were given a verdict against A. H. Butler, 82 Mitchell-street, Merewether, for £3/7/, with 3/ costs, balance owing for goods sold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From the police court to the Royal Court epitomises the elevation of an ex-police constable, Jack Hayes, in the final…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bhagat Singh and Dutt, who were accused in connection with the bomb outrage in the Indian Parliament, were to-day sentenced to transportation for life…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The use of a razor is becoming too common altogether, said Mr. Justice James, at the Central Criminal Court to-day, in passing sentence of two…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →George Wilshin, 29, baker, on remand, was charged with vagrancy at Newcastle on June 4. Constable Phillipson, Acting Police Prosecutor, stated that the police…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Phillip Malour, an Assyrian, who has been charged with murder, was again present in court to-day, when the City Coroner's inquiry into the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →All the characters in the Paramount All-Talking picture, The Canary Murder Case, talk from the screen. William Powell, playing the part of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MRS. GRACE SENDLER, who started an action nearly 20 years ago, charging that the plot of the "Bird of Paradise" had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After arguing at length with the magistrate as to whether it was a crime to fish from the bridge, George Warren refused to pay a fine at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The police and medical examiner declared themselves satisfied that Margaret Lawrence, the actress, was murdered while asleep by Louis Bennison, who, in a…
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