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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,769 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 64 of 189
Impressed by the similarity of a constructed description of the victim of the Yarra River sugar-bag mystery with that of his wife, who left him 12 months…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. Shand, who is appearing for Constable Miller, told the Royal Commission on police methods and starting-price betting to-day that he proposed to charge…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The trial began in the Assize Court hero to-day of a man and a woman charged in connection with one of the most sensational murders recorded in Soho,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →In High Court Chambers to-day, Mr. Justice Evatt fixed for May 17 the hearing of the application of the Federal Attorney-General, calling upon the Friends…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →At the Quarter Sessions to-day sentence of six months' imprisonment was imposed on Kenneth Lionel Phillips, 23, a salesman, for a series of frauda…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Grim mystery among a group of scientists at a university and the solution of a baffling crime by the tiny clue of a pet dog's rubber ball are the exciting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For what was described by the Greenwich (England), magistrate as a "most violent and unprovoked assault," P.C. John Raymond Parry, stationed at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sentence of 10 years' penal servitude was passed at the Old Bailey, London, the other day, on a man who was alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Allegations of extreme cruelty to a horse were made against Leslie McGill at Burwood Court to-day, Witnesses stated that McGill struck the horse over the head and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Alleging that he had been assaulted, Joseph butler Claimed, £2000 damages from John Lewitz and John Thomas Kay in the Causes Court to-day before Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Giving evidence in a case at Clerkenwell, England, a police officer alleged that an accomplished organist, who recently played in a number of London…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →George Edward Petherbridge, of Skelton-street, Hamilton, was fined £5, with 19/ costs, in default 12 days' imprisonment, for having driven a car in a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A man who eluded the police at Five Dock swam 600 yards across Iron Cove and disappeared after jumping over several fences…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →ON a table in the Police Commissioner's room are busts of Detective C. Jardine, official police draughtsman, and of Cadet A. Clarke. Each modelled the other. All recruits passing through the police depot have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It was announced to-night that the Industrial Commission has intervened in the dispute at the works of Rylands Bros. (Australia)…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Attorney-General (Mr. H. E. Manning) appeared before the Royal Commission into police methods to-day. He said that he…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A story of the Duke of Windsor kissing a pretty French girl on the Somme battlefield lies behind the plans for his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fiction and the screen introduce a new detective in Christopher Cross, the sleuth who satisfactorily solves the mysteries in "Under Cover of Night."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three new cars, to replace those now in use, are expected by Newcastle police shortly. They will be equipped with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Severe criticism of a police identification parade was made by the Lord Chief Justice. Lord Hewart, at Sussex Assizes at…
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