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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 179
Newcastle Police Station building is hopelessly inadequate. It has been so for years, but as the work of the North-eastern police division, of which it is-the headquarters, increases the position is becoming more and more…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Among the first duties of the King and Queen after their return to Sandringham next week will be to approve four designs for models of dresses to be worn…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →After inquiries extending over two weeks, police have made no headway in the search for the murderer of Leslie McAllister, who was shot dead and robbed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sergeant J. J. Stanton of West Maitland who was recently transferred from Singleton, has been notified of his transfer to Yass. He will be succeeded by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A sentence of nine months' imprisonment with hard labour, was imposed on Thomas Hannam for negligent driving and causing bodily harm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stopped by the Safety Bureau Patrol on the Prince's Highway, near Engadine, to-day, four men attempted to escapes into the bush. One succeeded, but the other…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Defective-sergeant Allmond left Sydney to-day for Tumut, where he will take charge of investigations into the death of Michael Downing, 38,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A new effort was made by police at the week-end to increase safety on the roads. Plain-clothes traffic police rode in private utility trucks patrolling the roads…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A statement that starting price betting had been eliminated from a number of hotels was made in the quarterly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thieves broke into the clubhouse of the Woy Woy Bowling Club last night. They gained entrance by smashing a window, and stole money from a machine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →POVERTY is still a crime—to the eyes of magistrates. To abolish, as was thought, the scandal of imprisonment for debt, the Money Payments Act was passed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged to have left her child in a rot on a verandah of a house in Erskine ville on Friday night, a young woman was remanded on bond of £10 at Central…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A bag containing 606 sticks of gelignite, eights boxes of detonators, and 3000 Feet of fuse, was found by police near Fig Tree Bridge. Lane Cove, to-day. All…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The case at Newcastle Summons Court to-day. in which Leslie Francis Dalley, of Beaumont-street, Hamilton, proceeded against Mick Carney, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sentence of three months' imprisonment was imposed on Ernest Moran, 27, jockey, who pleaded "Guilty" to four charges…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The theft of an alarm clock, a volt meter and a motor cycle battery from Hughes Brothers' garage at Charlestown has been reported to Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When Patrick Joseph Day, called as a witness at the Central Police Court to-day, refused to give evidence, Mr. Wells, S.M., sentenced him to seven days'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alton Thomas Cusick, of the Hotel Gosford, Gosford, was granted booth licences for Newcastle races on February 7…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After stabbing a cook, a firemen on a steamer lying at Carrington chased him around the deck with a knife, according to evidence given in a case on the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Secret wedding of young Police Constable Kenneth Malcolm, late of Kennington Road, Police Station, London, and Hilda Gentry, 16, of…
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