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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,806 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 191
A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Coroner (Mr. Reed), when the adjourned inquest concerning the death of Norman Brown, the Rothbury victim, was resumed to-day. Mr. Reed commended the action of the police during the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When the case against William Orr, aged 29, a [?]thgow industrialist, who was arrested at the conclusion of a Communist meeting at Cessnock on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alfred Joseph Purcell pleaded "Not guilty" at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday to a charge of having at North Rothbury, on February 11, used insulting…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Government has offered a reward of £250 for information leading to the apprehension of the murderer of Dominico Belle, who was stabbed on Newtown…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Because they were frightened to go home at an early hour to-day, two girls concocted a remarkable story of an attack by three men. Tho girls…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charged with having demanded money of Leslie Barney and Cecil Sheather, with intent to steal, and with having maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm upon…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →G. S. Luscombe, licensee of the Royal Standard Hotel, Sydney, was granted 17 booth licenses for Newcastle Show by Mr. Gibson, L.M., at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →James Rae, 53, and Leonard Brown, 32, were each fined 5/, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, and Alexander Mulvena and Michael Morris 10/, in default 48…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"If you indulge in a quite unprovoked assault on an unoffending citizen you must pay the penalty for it, said Mr. Gibson, S.M.. to John Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Further details of the incidents at John Barling colliery on the morning of January 15 were given by witnesses at Newcastle Police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, Augustus Charles Reeves, 42, storeman; Augustus Charles Reeves, 18, labourer, and Clara Reeves, 40—husband, son, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →No acts of violence were alleged against 31 miners charged before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.M., at the Newcastle Police Court, yesterday, with having knowingly…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A stir was created at the Wallsend Police Court to-day, in the cases in which 73 men are charged by summons, with having continued in an unlawful assembly at Ashtonfields, on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The discovery of a baby's head in the yard of a home in Enfield yesterday was followed by an amusing sequel to-day. Investigations' made last night…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Probably the worst motor accident which can happen on the road is that which can arise from a head-on collision between vehicles going in opposite…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There was further argument before the Full High Court today concerning the validity or the second interim award in the coal dispute made by Judge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The hearing of the coal proprietors' appeal against the validity of Judge Beeby's interim award in the coal dispute commenced in the Full High Court this…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Allegations that police had been pointed out by Members of Parliament at a public meeting at Cessnock, and referred to as thugs, bashers, and gutter snipes, were made in evidence at the Cessnock Court to-day, when J. M. Baddeley, M.L.A. and R. James…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A blood-stained hat, a few bags splashed with blood, and a piece of gas-piping about IS Inches In length, have been found In a packing shed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"My formal finding is that the said Norman Laurence Brown, at the Maitland District Hospital, in the police district of Maitland, in the said State, on the 16th day of December, 1929, died from the offece of a gunshot wound accidentally received at Rothbury in the said State, on the…
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