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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 184
The inquest into the death of John Thomas Demsey, the transport driver who disappeared with his truck from the Calder Highway on October 11 and whose body…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"This is an offence against the public and next time you have trouble the police may remember it. "They can't be made fools of all the time,"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thomas Henry Wilson, 19, was remanded until next Monday when he appeared before the Cessnock Police Court yesterday on a charge of having on December…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The licence of the Rhondda Hotel Rhondda, was transferred from Edward Robson to Keith Ronald Daniels, of Denison-street, Hamilton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A dispute which occurred on Lee Wharf during picking-up operations on September 7, was described by witnesses at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"It is no use suggesting to you to take a pull, as you are apparently addicted to thieving and cannot help yourself, but if you keep on you will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eight days after the opening, the inquest into the murder of John Thomas Demsey, transport truck driver, ended to-day with the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →After the right of the prosecution to depend upon the information as a case to answer when intent was involved had been questioned in the West Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Additional police will be brought to Newcastle to assist in the handling of the large crowds that are expected…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An adjournment to March 1 was granter in the cases in which the Electrical Trades Union of Australia proceeded against two men for the recovery of fines. The union…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lyle Johns, 18, labourer, was charged with having trespassed on railway premises at Teralba early on January 11. He was found guilty, and fined £2, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charged at Campsie Court to-day with having feloniously slain Florence Mary Cook, at Surry Hills, on January 5, Harold Henry Perrin, 22, French polisher, and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →George Scoles, of George-street. East Maitland, proceeded against Jack Melmeth, of King-street, East Maitland, claiming for goods sold and delivered. A…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Expressing regret that costs had to be allowed against the complainant, because he considered it was the intention of both employer and employee to evade the award,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A sentence of three months gaol on each of two charges, one of stealing and the other of false pretences, and a sentence of four months gaol on another…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest will be opened at Albury next Tuesday into the murder of the unknown woman whose body was found murdered beneath a culvert on the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The hearing was resumed in the Mossman Court to-day of the case in which Bogo Gavrilovich is charged that on December 19, at Upper Cassowary, he…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Criticism of the shortage of police in the Maitland district was expressed by the Mayor of East, Maitland (Ald. H. C. Morton, at a special meeting of the council…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police have been instructed to take action following complaints that fruit machines have been installed in guest housed and hotels in the Blue Mountains…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →George Misters, 11, the eldest of a family of three, was drowned in the Brisbane River, at Indooroopilly, this afternoon, He was bathing with other…
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