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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 59 of 184
Described as one of the cleverest confidence tricksters. Alfred Dean Lawson, 58, bookmaker, born in Australia was sentenced at the Old Bailey to-day to five…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The police are continuing their inquiries into the Lidcombe bomb outrage in which Alfred Ernest Smith, a union organiser, and his wife were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Three cases came before Judge Nield at the sitting of the District Court which began at Newcastle Courthouse yesterday. Two of the cases were disposed of, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Judge Thomson, in the Quarter Sessions Appeals Court, to-day, said that police constables had no right to trap a man of good character into committing an…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Charged with having on April 11 taken and used a car without the consent of the owner. Noel Ernest Masters, 20, and William Roy Myler, 21, labourers, were…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Discussing recent escapes from the French Island penal settlement, the Chief Secretary (Mr. Bailey) said that he had been amazed to learn that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The part-heard case in which Helmer Joseph Pedersen, 51, poultry farmer, wan charged with having driven a motor-lorry in Lambton-road, Broadmeadow, on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Inspector Fergusson, Officer-in-Charge of Darlinghurst police, on Monday will be transferred to Phillip Street Station, in charge. Inspector…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Detectives watched the wedding of Miss Alice Les Hodgkinson, aged 29, of Wedgwood-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pearl Doris Hall, of Hopkins-street, Merewether, proceeded against Jessie Broadbent, of Hopkings-street, Merewether, for having used insulting words…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charles Wilson, of James-street, Hamilton, was ordered to pay a penalty of £2, with 17/ costs, for having worked for less than the minimum wage of £5/2/…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police to-day continued their search for Mr. Alfred William Pender, a returned soldier, of Maitland, who vanished early on Thursday from a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Judge Nield dealt with two matters in Newcastle District Court yesterday. In a part-heard case in winch a motorcyclist claimed damages from a car driver,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A vivid story of the earthquake at Rabaul on May 29, 1937, when 400 natives died, will be unfolded in the Probate Court on Monday during…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A verdict that William Leonard Roberts was not guilty of the murder of Dorothy May Everett was returned by the jury at Maitland Circuit Criminal Court at 9.25 last night. The jury was out for nearly 3½, hours…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Kenneth James Navin, 19, laborer, declared from the dock at the Quarter Sessions to-day that as he had been confined in Long Bay Gaol he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Frank Donald Green. 35, a laborer, was committed for trial by Mr. Sutherland. S.M., at the Redfern Court to-day on a charge of having in his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A tenant in the Corona Buildings, 275 Hunter-street, Newcastle, telephoned Newcastle police yesterday afternoon to inform them that a strong smell of fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Discussing recent escapes from the French Island penal settlement, the Chief Secretary (Mr. H. S. Bailey) said that he had been amazed to learn that there…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The trial of three youths, for the murder of Cyril Clive Maher, night-officer at Farley railway station on March 8. will open at East Maitland…
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