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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 184
Evidence that the body of six-year-old Marcia Hayes had lain in a bag in a fernery at the home of Alfred Spicer during a police search and was dumped in a nearby creek after the police had left was given…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →While the police rowing team was training on the Parramatta River to-day, the coach's launch caught alight and was burned to the water's edge…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A dozen police cars on night patrol picked up Scotland Yard's broadcast, circulated immediately after the theft, announcing a smash and grab the theft,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →President Roosevelt has designated the Solicitor-General (Mr. Stanley Reed) a strong New Deal supporter, to succeed Mr. Justice Sutherland on the Supreme…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Eamonn de Valera, creator and guiding spirit of Eire (formerly the Irish Free State), and his co-delegates to the Anglo-Irish…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thomas Henry Wilson, 18, of Kearsley was bound over in sum of £10 to be of good behaviour for 18 months, on a charge of having stolen, on or about…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mrs. Mary Josephine Toohey, 75, of Paddington, was found in her room this afternoon with a deep gash across her chin. She was hurried to hospital, where several…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On a charge of having stolen, from William James Ferguson, on January 11, tobacco, cigarettes and other goods to the value of £3, Lyle William Johns…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Albert George Asham, 26, plumber, of Lambton Road, New Lambton, was remanded until January 31 when he appeared at the Newcastle Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fines of £2 in default four days' imprisonment, were imposed on John Murphy, 61, mechanic, and Leslie John Soden, 46, architect, for having ridden in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A charge of misappropriation against George Abel Ward, a solicitor, of Toowoomba, and formerly in practice at Cessnock, was struck out by Mr. C. G…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Coroner to-day found that Marcia Hayes, 6, whose body was recovered from a creek at Windsor on Christmas Eve, had been strangled. He committed Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Following the adjournment of the inquiry by the District Coroner (Ald. C. J. Staples) into the death of Leonard Glover Cooley Orr, 29, of The Entrance, who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Towards the end of a meeting of the Municipal Employees' Union to-night the rival factions clashed, and after a bitter argument a free…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →When Donald-Leslie Matthews came before the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having assaulted his wife, he urged the Magistrate to send him to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sentence of 14 days' imprisonment was imposed on Lyle William Johns, 18, a labourer, who pleaded "Guilty" to having stolen, at Hamilton, on January 11,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The French Surete Nationale, after hunting for months for the source of forced documents with which daring frauds…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The only business listed at the west Maitland Police Court yesterday was six charges of drunkenness Five offenders did not appear, and forfeited their ball of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The quarterly report for the period ended December 31 was presented by Inspector F. J. Noble in the Licensing Court. The report stated that the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Despite police tenacity and world-wide search, the "pyjama girl" case remained, after the inquest to-day, Australia's foremost…
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