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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 38 of 184
According to a statement alleged to have been made to, the police on February 27 by Eric Alexander Smith, 20, sheet metal worker, he declared that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An attempt to rob William Sherry and his brother, Clarence Sherry, of £680, representing the wages for their employees, failed this afternoon because of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Robert Victor Coventry, 19, son of MR. C. J. Coventry, S.M., was sentenced to three months' Imprisonment by Mr. Justice Richards in the Criminal Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Observing that there was a certain technique in such cases and that in the present one he recognised the old technique immediately. Mr. Carr-Boyd, P.M.,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Jack Gill, of Macquarie-street, Junction, pleaded "Guilty" to having assaulted Harold Hayler, of Robertson-street, Carrington…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →When it unanimously refused an application by the Crown for special leave to appeal from a decision of the Queensland Criminal Court of Appeal, which…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A further remand until March 24 was applied for by Sergeant P. S. Jeffrey on behalf of the police when Thomas Dixon Gibson, 18, William Robert Date, 17, and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →John Ryan, 37, labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen a suitcase, containing clothing, valued at £3, the property of Mrs. Griffiths, at…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →"Criminals I have known" was the attractive title of the talk given in aid of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London by Sir Chartres Biron, who practised for years at the Old Bailey before he became Stipendiary Magistrate at Hoxton,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A daughter of the late Joseph Hocking, the novelist, and a married man, who were said to have lived "like two reckless, crazy young people," were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Arnold, S.M., the Paddington Court today refused a request on behalf of Sybil, Whiteford alleged victim of a sex crime, that the charge should be…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A further adjournment to April 20 was granted in the cases in which Lancelot David Guy, of West Maitland, and Walter Raymond Gray, of Mayfield,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →After deliberating for nine hours, the jury failed to agree in the Criminal, Cont to-day in the case in which George Renton, 42, station hand, was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Cestapo (German Secret Police) are feverishly studying the Austrian secret archives. These ore documents at the Home…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Following a trail picked up by Tess, the Alsatian, police to-day found Elsie Simpson, 9, of Myrtle-street, Bankstown, who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rev. Alfred Morris, of Randwick, to-day figured in a dramatic scene at the Quarter Sessions Appeals Court, and Judge White asked him to leave the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A policeman told the Magistrate in Kogarah Police Court to-day how he found a diamond ring, valued at £300, in a piece of wood which had been split…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The warlike clangour from overseas has mads the N.S.W. State election seem very small potatoes to the electors. New South Wales election candidate: "Stop it! I can't hear myself speak and nobody else wants to hear m[?] either, while you're stealing my thunder."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Julius Maltby, a middle-aged man, was murdered at his home in Park-parade, Pagewood, last night. After being stabbed through the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Following the death early this morning of a man who was admitted to the Alfred Hospital late last night, bleeding profusely from a wound in the face and…
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