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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
4,091 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 205
Police investigating the murder of Adeline Hazel Wilson, 16, whose body was found on a vacant allotment, near her home at Ormond on Saturday, are now convinced that the crime was not committed by a sex pervert, but by someone who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →David Sneddon (44), clerk, pleaded guilty at Newcastle Police Court to-day, to two charges of having stolen cheques for £9 8s 6d and £4, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At an inquest into the death of Hemara Walariki, aged 38, and his sister, Ani Walariki, aged 16, who were found shot together at a settlement, 70…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"I want to issue a warning that in future anyone appearing at this court for stealing from farms may be imprisoned without the option." This…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend police scout the idea that it was no unspent pearifle bullet that caused the sensation among passengers on the 9.10 a.m. tram leaving Wallsend on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Repeated rebukes by Mr. Stevenson, S.M., to a talkative defendant, in a case at Newcastle Police Court to-day, proved unavailing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The disappearance of window curtains and books from the week-end cottage of Agnes Rockford, at Belmont, on January 7, resulted in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne wan shocked yesterday by a tragedy recalling in many features the recent deaths of Mena Griffiths, aged 12, of South Yarra, and Miss Molly Dean,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There-have been startling developments in connection with the mysterious disappearance from her Berkshire home, 17 months ago, of pretty Winifred…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The two men who escaped from Tuncurry prison camp late on Saturday night, William Henry Tansey, 32,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The 12 men arrested on Friday in riots following upon an, attempt by unemployed to interview the Premier in Adelaide, appeared at the Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police, it was claimed in evidence, took a bet over the telephone at the Wickham Park Hotel after they had arrested a man on a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Field-Marshal Sir William Bird wood may be the next Commissioner of the London Metropolitan…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On the application of the Police Prosecutor (Sergeant J. Phillipson) George Frederick Drake, 31, ship's quartermaster, was remanded to January 14 on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Frederick Charles Thompson, aged 22, was fined £10 at the Parramatta Police Court to-day on a charge of having assaulted Constable Simpson…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In dealing with, four persons who were charged with having stolen melons and potatoes from farms, Mr. D. W. Read, P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cecil Patrick Maher, 27, labourer, pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge of having stolen, at Belmont, on January 7, one pair of window curtains, two shorthand…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Lewis Frederick Warburton, 23, labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of vagrancy. Plainclothes Sergt. W. Charters said…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →That a trail of false clues was deliberately left behind by the murderer of Adeline Hazel Wilson, 16, of Melton-avenue, Ormond, is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Frederick Mervyn Victor Newman, 21, a stranger, was charged before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court, yesterday, with having…
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