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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
4,052 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 203
Charged with having conspired to cheat and defraud Automatic Totalisators, Ltd., of large sums of money, and with having forged and uttered a totalisator ticket for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →William James Lawler, 57, a married man, with a family of 10, was charged Byron Bay Police Court to-day with the murder of Percy George Woolridge on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Five reels of an eight-reel picture film, valued at £1000, were taken from a lorry owned by Warner Bros.' First National Pictures, Limited, when it was standing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Breaking into the second-hand, store of John Blackeby in Hunter-street some time during the holiday week-end, thieves stole a quantity of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Results of a horse race, announced "over the air" on April 1 caused a stir in a house at Islington…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alton Thomas Cusick, licensee of the Gosford Hotel, Gosford, was granted three booth licences for the Newcastle races on April 22…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A verdict for 13/4, with 11/ costs, was returned in the case in which Patrick Francis Gallagher, Newcastle, sued John William Bradbrook, Pokolbin-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Following the arrest of six young men, police claim that the recent epidemic of housebreaking in the Western Suburbs has now been stopped. Altogether 100…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alleged by police to have slashed a man's hand with a razor, John Olsen, 63, seaman, was remanded at Central Court to-day until May 2 on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Inspector Brydon, for four years officer in charge of Newcastle Police, has been notified of his transfer to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Detectives went to Waikerie early this morning to investigate a report that a man named Jack Young, 52, a labourer, had been drowned in the Murray River…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →All the British prisoners, except Gregory, were found guilty by the Soviet Court. Gregory was acquitted. The sentences imposed were: Thornton, three years imprisonment, and Macdonald, two years. Cushny, Nordwall and Monkhouse are to be deported within…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The atmosphere of the bargain basement will pervade Newcastle police station on Saturday morning, when the annual auction of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Feeling was running high at the Trades Hall to-day over the beer dispute. Two meetings were held…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. M. S. Meagher and W. A. Ross, Js.P., Cecil Henry Crawford Bailey, 22, a stranger, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Montreal, April 18.—Sixteen paintings, valued at 20,000 dollars, were slashed from their frames at the Springart Exhibition at the Montreal Art Gallery, during…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Patrick Owen Hanson, of Alexandra-street, Kurri Kurri, was charged before Mr. J. B. Scobie, P.M., at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday with having,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Henry Purvis, Holt-street, Mayfield West, fireman, proceeded against James Williams, Norfolk-avenue, Islington, cleaner, alleging assault, at Islington, on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Old bicycles will comprise the principal items to be disposed of at the auction of unclaimed goods at Cessnock police station on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Edward Woolmar, 24, labourer, was fined £15, in default imprisonment for 30 days, when he was convicted of having made a bet, at Islington, on April 1, on…
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