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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 179
James Connolly, 23, and Francis McGowan, 24, labourers, were charged at the Bow-street Police Court today with having been in possession of explosives. They…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →G-men seized nine men, who insisted that they were fishermen, from two launches which had anchored 300 yards from the naval reserve station at San…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The re-trial of Edwin Claude Helton, 36, storekeeper, found guilty at Charleville on May 28 of murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment, began before Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The inquest opened to-day on Joseph Donning, 38, clerk, who died on December 29, after he had been found behind the Woolpack Hotel with a head wound…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →During the examination of a Newcastle bankrupt before the Registrar in Bankruptcy, a gold chain, attached to a watch worn by the bankrupt, was temporarily seized by Mr. J. D. Keenan, who appeared for the Official Receiver…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Gwen Murray is down in the river. She is drowned. I just went and pulled her out." This statement, declared Ida May Parson, at the Coroner's Court to-day, was made to her by Fabian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cecil Roy Sweetman, 53, a building contractor, was questioned in the Bankruptcy Court to-day about a watch and chain he was wearing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Forty minutes after the mate had told him that the ship was going along steadily and male 6½ knots, the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A variation in the wording of hire purchase agreements has made it impossible for purchasers to secure the relief…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Finality will probably be reached by the Federal Government on the establishment of an air court when the Cabinet holds a series of meetings in Canberra next…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The case to test the validity of legislation imposing the flour tax came before Mr. Justice Evatt in the High Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alton Thomas Cusick, of the Hotel Gosford, Gosford, was granted booth licences for Newcastle Showground from to-day until Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A denial of negligence was the defence in the case in which John William Whatling, Thomas-street, Cardiff, claimed £12/10/ damages, arising from a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Counsel for George Green, the chimney sweep, who is charged with the murder of Annie Wiseman, 62, and her…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rev. Alfred James Bingley, Methodist minister at Bathurst, who was made bankrupt last October following his failure to meet the costs of his unsuccessful action…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →How the steamer Belbowrie became stranded off Maroubra Bay on the night of January 16 may remain another…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police evidence that Fabian Raphael Fogarty, 32-year-old yardman at Congi Station, Woolbrook, had confessed to shooting Edna…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Serious rioting occurred in the Broadway district last night when the German-American Bund held an "Americanisation Rally" at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"The defendant stole two bottles of brandy from a lorry and drank one of them," said Constable J. Duffell in the case in which John Stewart Gibson, 27,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Neither of you are a credit to the University," said the Magistrate in imposing a fine of £1, in default two days' imprisonment, on each of four students…
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