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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
2,785 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 140
Three first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness Charged with having used indecent language in Darby-street, on January 12, Samuel M'Kay, of 72…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. R. Cameron, M.P., has been informed by the Under-Secretary of Justice, that the Public Works Department had intimated that the preparation of plans…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At much as £1000 a week was made by one firm by telling Wembley Rock, a confection, at the Wembley Exhibition, according…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Harold Edward Robert Burns, 25, laborer, was charged before Mr. Cohen, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day with vagrancy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For the second time a wrong arrest has been made in connection with the murder of a scrub-faller at Boonjie in June last. Gordon Franks, who, as James…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Percival joints Frost (32). laborer, was charges, before Mr. Cohen, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day, with having at Erina, between January 5…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A laborer aged 38 years was charged before Mr. Cohen, S.M.. at Newcastle Children's Court to-day with having committed a revolting offence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. D. W. Reid, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Percy Dumbrell was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Arising out of the death of James Sherry (40) from a fractured skull on Saturday night, James Bailey (46) appeared at the Paddington Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When a maintenance case was called for the Children's Court, yesterday morning. Mr. H. L. O'Neill, who appeared for the complainant (the wife), informed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Why did Chung Yi Miao, the brilliant young Chinese law student, murder his beautiful Chinese bride while they were on their honeymoon? He…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the Bankruptcy Court, at the West Maitland Courthouse yesterday, Mr. D. W. Reid. District Registrar, conducted an examination into the bankruptcy of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In connection with the alleged indecent assault on a 15-year-old girl at Merewether Beach on January 15, a young man, aged 26, a signalman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Half a dozen first offenders on charges of drunkenness forfeited bonds or received the usual light penalty. Thomas Sinclair (64), labourer, also for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A further letter has been received by Mr. R. Cameron, M.P., in relation to his recent representations regarding the erection of the proposed new court-house for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Robert Williams, who was found guilty on January 10 of the murder of an Irish housemaid, Julia Maugan, has been reprieved by the Home Secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When the case in which Isabel Williamson (52), housewife, and Joseph Stanislaus Philipson (21), draughtsman, are charged with having set fire to a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police authorities desire, in view of recent accidents, to again invite the attention of drivers of all vehicles to the necessity for the utmost care to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Principals of the alleged razor slashing brawl, in Brown-street on January 11, William James McGuirk, unemployed seaman, and John McKeown, 39, fireman, appeared in Newcastle Police Court to-day, when McKeown was charged with having maliciously inflicted grievous bodily…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →According to evidence at Cessnock Police Court to-day, Frederick Miller, 21, licensee of the Northumberland Hotel, Cessnock, cashed a Sydney…
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