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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
4,091 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 70 of 205
In view of rumours of a Communist plot, in connection with May Day, to interfere with the electric lighting power supply, and to make organised attacks on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Further action was taken to-day by the detectives investigating the murder of Mrs. Rose Harvey, 51, widow, who was found kicked to death, under a staircase…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →There was only one case to occupy the attention of the Newcastle Police Court on Saturday. A nominal penalty was imposed by Mr. A. G. Chiplin, J.P., on an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Santa Pollastro, one of the most notorious bandits in Italian criminal history, and head of a famous gang of burglars, has received a life sentence—for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Stanley Baldwin, addressing the Primrose League to-day, emphasised the importance of devoting the energies of the Conservative Party to achieving the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Guinea pigs and rabbits, all inoculated with deadly tuberculosis and typhoid germs for experimental purposes, were stolen from the Veterinary Science School…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reports indicate that the police in other towns in Japan acted with determination to prevent disorders during the May Day demonstrations. The total…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Special squads of police yesterday continued their "war" against starting price bookmakers. Arrests were made in various suburbs. One man, who is alleged to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Bengal Government proclamation states that owing to the dangerous and disturbed state of certain areas of Chittagong and the conduct of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The sensational pursuit of a stolen truck by two wireless patrol cars had its sequel yesterday in the sentencing of Ernest Victor Templeton, 23, a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A sentence of 12 months' imprisonment was passed by judge Sheridan at Newcastle Quarter Sessions to-day on George William Keith Bevan, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, Joseph Hegarty, aged 40, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on a charge of shopbreaking. It was stated that he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Henry Jones, 28, of Bennett-street, Hamilton, who was arrested by Sergeant W. J. McPherson at the West Maitland railway station on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pleading guilty at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day to a charge of having stolen £1280/16/2, the property of the National Roads and Motorists Association,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the city beats, along the waterfront, and in the charge-room, the policeman comes in contact with the seamy side of life. The delinquencies of others are his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Described by the police as "a worthless scoundrel and a menace to the public," Peritz Sokofsky, alias Percy Koski, aged 22, a tailor of Mile…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When Charles Eldridge, 26, a steward, appeared at the City Court to-day, charged with the murder of his step-father, Matthias Handley, at Carlton, on April 7, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Judge Curlewis, at the Quarter Sessions to-day, said that he would refuse to release on bond personal employees who stole postal articles. John…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Of all classes of criminals the ordinary thief receives perhaps the lowest return for the expenditures of his labor and energy and the risks which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A warning against drink issued to motorists by the Berlin police reads: "Motorists ought to forego the use of alcohol (beer, wine, spirits, &c.)…
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