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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,806 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 34 of 191
Leonard Stanley Standford, alias Louis Sewell Sharp, 21, who escaped from Long Boy gaol on Saturday night was arrested near Cleveland-street, City, this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"We will carry on the South Maitland lines passenger services as usual as soon as the present strike of the company's employees is over," said the Managing Director of the South Maitland Railways Ltd. (Mr. C. A. Earp), in a statement to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The High Court, by majority decision, declared yesterday that Judge Beeby's second interim award for the coal industry was bad in law, and void. It was held that the serving of the log of claims on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., occupied the Beach at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. David Brock, of Kearsley, pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"I wish to plead guilty, it was only a technical offence" said Ephriam Campbell, 27, labourer, when charged with having assaulted Harold Cecil Moran, at the Star…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A sneak theft on Newcastle railway station by a woman who had the effrontery to use a schoolboy as her innocent dupe is being investigated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Andrew Norval, licensee of the Royal Hotel, was granted booth licenses for the Newcastle races on March 8, by Mr. J. B. Gibson, L.M., at the Newcastle Licensing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A charge of having illegally impounded six horses on January 25 was brought against H. L .Stokes. Impounding officer, of New Lambton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For having used indecent language on Lee wharf, on March 3, Leonard Brown, 39, fitter, was fined 30/, in default seven days' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The official report furnished to the Minister for Justice, Mr. J. R. Lee, regarding the escape from Long Boy Penitentiary of the prisoner Stanford by impersonating…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The annual game between the solicitors of Newcastle and the Courthouse staff, played on the Asylum ground, resulted in a win for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Daniel Clay Hodgson, of Broadmeadow, pleaded "Not indebted" to a claim mode against him by W. E. Bramble and Sons, Ltd., for the recovery of £1/4/, alleged to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →As the result of investigations made by a local doctor, three cases of what at first appeared to be ptomaine poisoning are being inquired into by the police,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The mystery of the poisoning of two brothers and a sister named Murray, at Conjola, on the South Coast, is one of the most complicating cases dealt with by the police for some time. DETECTIVE Sergeant James, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sharp, wordy tussies between the respondent's wife and the solicitor, Mr. E. R. Abigail, marked the hearing of the Simmons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday morning. Bernard O'Neill, miner, of Kurri Kurri,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →One first offender was dealt with for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Full Court to-day was engaged in the bearing of appeals against the conviction of miners by Mr. Reed,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The theft of a motor lorry, and one and a half hundredweight of butter, in the city yesterday, had a sequel this afternoon, when detectives made three…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →One first offender was dealt with for drunkenness. SCOTT-STREET ROW. The story of a row in Scott-street was…
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