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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,757 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 48 of 188
A suggestion that George Washington Nott might possibly have been alive when his body was destroyed by fire at Bugilbone Station, on February 14, was made by the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. McGhie) at the trial at Narrabri to-day, of Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The trial of 31 men and women, all belonging to the one family, charged with having smuggled narcotic drugs, ended to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., presided at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday. George Purcell, of North, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having, at Neath,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Leonard Scholes and Peter Roddom, two young men, both residents of Adamstown, pleaded "Guilty" to charges of having stolen, on February 17, two bridles, etc.,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A new type of murder mystery in developed in the. plot of "12.30 From Croydon," by Freeman Wills Crofts. A retired and wealthy manufacturer, a semi-invalid,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For having used indecent language in the parlour at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Carrington, at 5.20 p.m. on March 10, Thomas Blake, of Young-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sentenced to 30 years gaol to-day, a gangster filled the Court House with frantic but vain howls that he had been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It was discovered to-day that during the holidays over £500 had been stolen from the strongroom of the Bunbury Police Court buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The fruits of faulty memories and misspent lives will be offered for public auction at the Newcastle Police Station at 10 o'clock next Saturday morning. Sergeant…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A revolting case of cruelty to animals has been revealed by the discovery by the police of a secret yard, and paddock in the mountains about 20 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An order for committal for contempt of court was made against William Barclay Rogers, a former Transport Commissioner, by the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An interesting case came before the Court to-day when a former police constable, G. Whelan, of Glenunga, claimed £100 damages from Inspector Johns and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →James Ross (70), pensioner, who was sentenced at the Quarter Sessions to-day to 18 months imprisonment for an assault on a girl of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Edward John Murphy. 38, watchman, was charged at Newcastle to-day with having stolen 561bs. white lead, valued at £1 3s 3d, the property…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →All the various articles which the police collect in the elucidation of crime, together with the portable property which, forgetful citizens leave…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At Newcastle Bankruptcy Court this afternoon, Reginald Cecil Wallace, laborer, of Grey-street, Wickham, was examined. He said the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hugh Caffery, 33, labourer, on bail, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having committed a breach of the Totalisator Act at Tighe's Hill on April 4, in that he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victor Bennet, 19, clerk, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment at the Quarter Sessions this afternoon on a charge of having stolen £106, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Under the Moratorium Act A. Lewis (a male) sought relief from a judgement secured against him by Harold Vincent Fogo on account of goods sold and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fiction was surpassed when listeners heard a murder committed in a broadcasting station at Tiflis. A police official was describing a bandit concerned in a…
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