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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 184
Announcing that certain statements of witnesses pointed to Leonard William Roberts, houseman at Broughton School, as having been concerned in the death of Dorothy May Everett, kitchen maid at the school, the District Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin) said at the resumed inquest to-day that he desired Roberts to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorist are warned that action is being taken by the police to enforce the traffic regulations with regard to parking in the city and suburban areas…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An infant's leg, believed to have come from the body of the baby whose arms were found in the harbour last week, was reqvoared from the water to-day. It will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One hundred witnesses nave been summoned to attend the inquest on John Thomas Demsey, truck driver, which opened before the Coroner (Mr. Tingate, P.M.), to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The dreaded Nazi secret police, without warning, raided thousands of houses, offices, and flats throughout Germany to-day in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jack Gray, 23, rigger, was convicted on a charge of having stolen a hat, a bicycle pump, and lamp, a fishing line, and three face towels, valued at £2, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Edward Fongo, 18. laborer, and Frederick Gibson, 55. steward, were brought before Mr. Soane. S.M, at the Newcastle Police Court to-day on a chares…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Eight Soviet leaders, including M. Mamikorian, a member of the Commission of Agriculture, have been sentenced to death at Erivan for plotting to overthrow the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"You are bringing up your children to be thieves," said Mr. Soane to Joan McEvoy, 41, domestic duties, who was indicted on two charges of shoplifting. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →First-class Inspector E. Burke, who was in charge of time Grafton police district, died in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital. North Sydney, to-day. He had been to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Paddy O'Brien, of Morpeth, pleaded "Guilty" at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday to a charge of having, on November 29, 1937, sold to Butler and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Edward Frank O'Neill, 54, was arrested last night on a charge of having assaulted a girl and was lodged in a cell at the Napier police station. This morning when…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →According to the police, a girl to-day reported her own death. Assuming a false name, she told the police she had seen a girl disappear in the surf near Robin's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the inquest on John Thomas Demsey, truck driver, which opened to-day, the owner of the truck, Victor Darbyshire, who was a brother-in-law of the dead man,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Depressed, taciturn, often weeping late at night in her bed, and sitting gloomily with her head in her hands, Dorothy May Everett indicated to several people that she had a deep-seated fear of some man. "She told me that she was frighten ed of someone in Taree," said Mrs. Elsie…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police guards kept watch all last night over piles of exhibits in the court-room and over two trucks parked at the Morgue, which form important links in the story of the killing of John Thomas Demsey, 39,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Efforts by the police to trace the murderer by studying teeth marks on the body were revealed at the resumed inquiry yesterday into the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pleas of "Guilty" were entered by John Leslie George [?]inds, of Swanson-street Weston, and Job Williams, of First-street. Weston, on charges of having, on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two girls, aged 20 old 17-the former the daughter of the patrolman inveatigating the ease—have confessed to having shot dead a 'bus driver on December 22…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maidstone, England, gaol convicts, among them, sitting side by side, Clarence Hatry and Leopold Harris, had a two-hours' West-end cabaret show…
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