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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,714 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 186
A vice ring, the extent of which is believed to have been unprecedented even during the most corrupt days of the "gay 'nineties," was uncovered when wholesale…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →When the hearing of the conspiracy charge was resumed at the Central Court to-day. Mr. L. C. Badham, a barrister,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. FALSE STATEMENT…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →For having stolen 561b of coal, the property of the Commissioner for Railways, last night, Stanley George Arthur (21). laborer, was fined £1 at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The licence of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Carrington, was transferred from Robert Lionel Wilcox to James Russell Barr. John Henderson was granted the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In the Small Debts Court, James Sparkes claimed £21/10/ from Ivan Stevens, alleged to be owing to him for work done. A verdict of £2/15/ was given in favour…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The 32 Webley and Scott automatic pistol that was used in the city hold-up last Friday when James Scriven, aged 64, of Elwood,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the absence of news of the murderers of James Scriven, police are prosecuting inquiries with the clues at their disposal. There seems no possibility of an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In an ex-parte matter, a verdict for £8/4/, with 10/ costs, was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the case between the Australian Fruit and Produce…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Charles Lacroix, who was detained at the week-end by the French police in connection with the murder in England of Max Kassel, who was implicated in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Constable G. Shiels, of the Police Department, began his safety first campaign in the Newcastle district schools when he addressed the pupils of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stanley George Arthur, 21, a labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen, at Newcastle, on February 4, 56lb of coal, valued at 9d, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Despite a plea for leniency and a tale of hardship, Edward Clarence Long, alias Lee (25), gardener, a Chinese, was sentenced to six…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Arthur Gordon Darby (25), a clerK, was committed for trial from the Central Court to-day by Mr. Farrington, S.M., on a charge of having on or…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Dorothy Davies, married, to-day was committed for trial from the Brunswick Police Court on a charge of having attempted to cause poison to be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →COLD-BLOODED killing of four gallant police officer in the attempted rescue of Frank Nash, the old-time hard-riding outlaw, who became a notorious city gangster, is detailed in this article of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →While two police officers were escorting a prisoner from Ballarat to Mildura, they pulled into a garage at Avoca for repairs. As the constables were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Despite further efforts to end the strike in the Smithfield Market, which began after midnight on Sunday, and if continued will seriously dislocate the supply…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Criticism by Judge and jury at the Quarter Sessions yesterday of the police practice of herding together in one cell men who had been arrested…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A plea by James ("Red") Maloney. one of Victoria's leading Welterweight boxers, that he should not be sent to gaol. as he had the prospect of a…
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