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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
4,154 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 208
Stated to have a long list of convictions in New South Wales and Victoria, John Kingsley Clarkson was sentenced to five years' gaol, at the Quarter. Sessions,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday morning. Inspector J. McGilvray of Kearsley…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Robert Carlin Brown, 30, a labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to charges of having unlawfully used a car at Broadmeadow, on January 17 without the consent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Tenterfield Police Court this afternoon, William Frederick Confoy, 20 and Leslie Lees, 18. Were charged with breaking and entering and the theft of six…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A man was voiced in the dock at Newcastle Police Court to-day, and nobody could say exactly why he was there…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Herbert Neller, of the Carrington Hotel Vest Maitland, was granted four booth licences for the Newcastle Showground. Leonard Morris, of the Terminus Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the report published yesterday of the Police Court case in which a man was charged with having obtained a motor car by false…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →James Masters, 25. laborer, was sentenced to 12 months' hard labor and declared an habitual criminal by Judge Nield at Newcastle Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Moree Quarter Sessions to-day, in the case in which Norman Mackay; 23, was charged with having stolen 48 lambs and six ewes from Telleraga…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →After being locked up to-night, and deliberating for 26 hours, a jury returned a verdict of "Not guilty" in the case in which Marie Isabel Foster, 52, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A sentence of seven years' imprisonment was imposed on Henry Yernold, 27, in the Supreme Court to-day, when he pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →After inquiring into the death of Mrs. Figg and her four children at Maylor on December 10, the Coroner' found to-day that they had been murdered by. William…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Arthur Edward Alderson. 24, clerk: William Roy Hilton. 19. naoer seller: Clarence Joseph McDermott, 20, laborer; and Harold Joseph Kirkwood…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A suggestion that the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) was to refire on March 23. and that he would receive from the Government a lump…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Mayor of Newcastle (Alderman Christie) took the Superintendent of Police (Mr. Gibson) and a party, which included the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The terribly battered body of Edgar Arthur Whitfield. about 60, married, a night caretaker employed at Carls Bros., jewellers,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →By 24 votes to 12, the Legislative Council deleted from the Police Regulation Amendment Bill the provision requiring the next Commissioner of Police to be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Publicans make over 100 per cent on the sale of bottled beer in the saloon bar. A bottle of beer costs about 10½d wholesale, and a gallon of beer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the High Court to-day, Mr. Justice Evatt dismissed the application for a contempt order against John Fairfax and Sons,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Members of the Waratah Council expressed concern last night at the amount of stealing at Mayfield…
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