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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
4,154 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 208
While police were controlling crowds which watched a fire destroy portion of a foundry at Castlemaine yesterday, two prisoners scaled a reformatory wall, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →After a long and arduous career in the police force in the course of which he has rendered important services to the State,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the Probate Court to-day in an atmosphere strangely alien to the epic events which were described, the curtain…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A crowded Court to-day heard the continuation of the case in which George Limbers, a wealthy grazier, is charged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fines of £1, in default two days' imprisonment were imposed on each of the following defendants for drunkenness—John Edward McDonald, 31, a labourer;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Said to be one of the most daring criminals in the State, John Williams, 26, who was convicted of larceny, was sentenced by Judge Curlewis at the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Seven defendants appeared before Mr. Shepherd, S.M., at the Central Court to-day, in the alleged bank frauds case, in which it had been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Louis Abrahams, 21, a storeman, who escaped from the West Maitland Police Station while being escorted to a cell on March 5, was charged before Mr. E. A…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The discovery or a cache in the bash near Bellbird, where a large quanity of explosives was hidden beneath bushes, was described by a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE succession of Mr. Mackay, to the office of Police Commissioner, focuses public attention on a force which has often been described, in the stock phrase, "a fine body of men."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Owing to the congestion of small debts molten at Newcastle Court, the Magistrate (Mr. Soane, S.M.) announced to-day that he had set aside the third and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A further adjournment to April 8 was granted in each of the following cases, in which James Hutton, Secretary of the Shop Assistants' Union, made a claim for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Andrew Mellon, former Secretary of the Treasury, discussing the Federal Government's effort to impose a 3,089,000 dollar assessment on his 1931 income,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The death of William Edwards, 18, at the Yarra Bay unemployed camp, on Christmas Eve, was recalled at the Central Criminal Court to-day, when,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the Ceasnock Police Court to-day, George Longdown complained that Benjamin Finney, a neighbor, had killed his white leghorn after…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The police and detective force in New South Wales was the equal of any in the world, said the Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. H. Childs), in an address to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When he appeared before the Bankruptcy Court recently, Nathan Miller declared that he had shared with four other men second prize in the State lottery,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The great pile of correspondence in front of the newly-appointed Police Commissioner (Mr. W. J. Mackay) to-day represented the congratulations of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Arbitration Court to-day issued notice to the Meat Board and the Meat Employees' Union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Engine-drivers and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An unusual scene was witnessed in the Divorce Court to-day. Mr. Justice Macrossan granted Emily Cheesman, of Imbil, a divorce from her husband on the ground…
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