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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 179
A bomb was exploded shortly before midnight last night against the outer wall of the Walton Gaol, Liverpool. The explosion damaged the brickwork, but did not breach the wall, which is 15 feet high and very thick at the base. Prisoners and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At Newcastle Quarter Sessions today Percival James Rogencamp, 46, laborer, pleaded not guilty ta charges of having indecently assaulted two…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The movements of four women, which she said the regarded as suspicious and made her suspect that they were shoplifters, on November 25. 1938, were…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →When a man and a woman declined to give evidence in an assault case, the Magistrate told them they were liable to prosecution. "You have inconvenienced…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pleading "Guilty" to a charge that at Newcastle between January 31 and February 3 he stole a travelling rug valued at 10/, the property of Susie…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The case was adjourned to March 2, 1939, in which Albert Cecil Skulthorpe, of Union-street, Junction, was charged with having unlawfully assaulted Linda…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →John Trevor Kelly, 24, motor mechanic, was charged at Tenterfield Police Court this evening with having murdered Marjorie…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Robert Arthur Williams, of Bowling-street, Paddington, pleaded not guilty at West Maitland Police Court to-day before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The District Court was to have begun a sitting at Newcastle yesterday, but the Newcastle Quarter Sessions, the list for which is unusually heavy, were far from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fines of £20 were imposed on Harry Vernon Johnson, of Bellbird, and James Mallon, of East End Unemployed Settlement, at the Cessnock Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Complaints that he had been persecuted by the police all his life were made to Judge Nield at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions Appeal Court…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three labourers were convicted before Judge Nield at Newcastle Quarter Sessions yesterday on a charge of having indecently assaulted a girl under 16. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The appointment of a Chief Judge of the Arbitration Court to succeed the late Chief Judge Dethridge was not considered at the meeting of Cabinet to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The police charged a young man to-night with the murder of Michael Joseph Downing, 38, a labourer of Tumut, who was found dead in a yard adjoining the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An "S plan," which the prosecution asserted was produced by the Irish Republican Army and, in conjunction with other documents…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stating that the circumstances were such that he could not do other than impose a sentence of imprisonment, Judge Nield, at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police told how counterfeit florins had been found in a room at Glebe on January 27, when Edwin Folkes, 45, was charged at Glebe Police Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →After a retirement of half an hour the jury found Percival James Rogencamp, 46, a labourer, guilty on two counts of indecent assault on boys at Singleton on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Norman Niddrie, 23, labourer, appeared at the Tumut Police Court to-day on a charge of having murdered Michael Joseph Downing. He was remanded until…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"All I can say is that this was a very horrible offence," said Judge Nield, at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions to-day, when he sentenced…
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