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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,806 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 191
A poignant domestic drama was staged in the dismal Woolwich Police Court to-day, when Mrs. Eva Gertrude Langsford, B.A., aged 35, of the Castle Hotel, Eltham,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →With another sweltering day ahead, the full bench of the High Court and an army of legal luminaries plunged this morning into further argument…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A coal train from Rothbury left at 4.30 a.m., and arrived without incident at Port Waratah marshalling yard. The train, on which was a strong police guard, was not molested. A second train of 37 trucks from Rothbury passed through Branxton at 3 p.m. for Port…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, a first offender for drunkenness was fined 5/, in default 24 hours' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Said by the police to have been engaged in the drug traffic for the past six months, James Cooper, aged 54, was sentenced at the Central Police Court to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two men who are alleged to have committed a serious assault on a girl of 14 years were arrested to-night. The story told to the police by two girls was that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A parrot as a witness in a Police Court was the unusual spectacle at Fremantle (W.A.) Court yesterday, when a woman was charged by a man with having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An admission that the police in charge of stations had been instructed as to the manner of engaging labour for Rothbury was made by Mr. Chaffey (Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An astonishing development his occurred in the mystery of room No. 66, at the Hotel Metropole, Margate, which has excited public curiosity for nearly three…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rumour of impending trouble at Rothbury having reached the Police Department last night, there was a hurried round-up of available police in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Justice Owen, in Public Chambers, today granted the application made by George Frederick Howard for a writ of attachment against his wife, Amy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dreary argument and long and tedious evidence maintains the monotony of proceedings, when the hearing before the High Court…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Justice Sir Issues said at the beginning of the proceedings in the coal case before the High Court Bench this morning, that it might be an advantage…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Eleven applications were made by William James Maskell, of Farley, a the Warden's Court at the East Maitland Courthouse, yesterday, for extension of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →John Henry G. Hubbard, orchard inspector, proceeded against Sydney John Mitchell. Warner's Bay, John Chapple, Warners' Bay, Richard Ernest Newton,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Arthur Lyle Gower (19), was brought before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday afternoon, and was charged with having, at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Inspector Bryden, in charge of the Newcastle police, stated, in reply to an inquiry, that the report regarding the Ashtonfields occurrence had not reached…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Frederick C. Fulbrook, alias J. H. Holdstock, 67, carpenter, was charged, by warrant, with baring obtained £7 by means of a valueless cheque from John…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The police in Cessnock and Kurrl are still having n hectic time. At some hotels waitresses still refuse to serve them, and they can neither…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nothing was known at Branxton yesterday morning of the "bluff" side of the miners' demonstration. Later, a meeting was held, at which members of miners…
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