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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
4,091 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 205
Following investigations conducted by Detective-sergeants Gallagher and Royal, and Detective Lawrence and others, a well-known city solicitor, W. C. Clegg, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day Edwin Rees, 50, William Andill, 50, and James O'Brien, 41, stood their trial on a charge of having conspired to cheat and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the District Court to-day before Mr. Freeman. P.M.,the Commonwealth Government proceeded against the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →According to Sergeant Toohey at Cessnock Police Court to-day, some lively happenings have boon taking place at dunces in the district…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Like a horrifying nightmare, was the confession of Germany's Jack the Ripper, Peter Kuerten, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Believed to have been the victim of frenzied jealousy after a lovers' quarrel, the dead body of Ruby. Anderson, aged 26, also known as Braddick, of Coronation-street, Kurri was found near her home in Kurri in the early hours of this morning by Constable Whitechurch. The police have no doubt that the girl…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. D. W. Reed P.M. occupies the bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. William Cecil McDonald 22, and Roy…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A police raid on a billiard saloon in Main-road, Boolaroo, on March 27, resulted in the appearance of 30 men…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On receipt of information from a young man at 1.50 a.m. yesterday, Constable E. Whitechurch, of the Kurri Kurri police, proceeded to Coronation-street, Kurri…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Putting aside official business, Newcastle police will have a night out it the annual smoke social which will be held in the Town Hall on May 37…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The transfer of the licence of the Oriental Hotel, Carrington, was granted from Patrick William Murray to David Henry Robertson…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged by the police to have taken part in extensive frauds dating from before the war, Leila Beryl Smith, aged 37, law clerk, was charged at the Central Police…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ten persons were shot and 50 imprisoned in Russia on charges of having disorganised the grain trade, says the Moscow, correspondent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A verdict for the plaintiff was returned in each of the following cases—John Irving Cummins. "The Boltons," Newcastle, v. Frederick William Philpott,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Vaucluse police this afternoon investigated without success a report that a body had been seen floating in the sea immediately below the cliffs at The Gap…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There was a development to-day in connection with the recent order made by Judge Lukin sequestrating the estate of Mr. Hugh Donald McIntosh, when an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jack Dempsey, the former champion boxer, has confirmed rumours that his next fight is scheduled to be in the Divorce Court versus his actress wife,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Following the engagement of volunteer labour to work vessels in Melbourne last week, two shipping companies, and an agent for a firm, were proceeded against…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →After 11 months' imprisonment, Peter Kuerten, the German "Ripper" was tried in the gymnasium of the old military barracks, the Court room being inadequate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Alfred Atkinson pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge of breaking, entering and stealing from the workshop of Claude Littlejohn,…
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