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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 45 of 179
"I do not think there is sufficient evidence to support any of the charges," said Mr. Soane at the conclusion of the part-heard cases in which Elvin Rex Scott, 20,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Leonard Washington Brennan, 36, commission agent was acquitted on a charge of having assaulted a girl of 13, who, it was stated…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Found guilty of the manslaughter of Dorothy Elsie Duncan, 19, at Seaforth, on Boxing Day, Mervyn Augustus Leach, 24, was sentenced at Mackay to-day to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Resenting an order to return to his cell, a prisoner in the Brisbane prison tailor shop yesterday afternoon seized a hammer and battered a buttonhole…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sydney, detectives who interviewed a man in Brisbane to-day in connection with the murder of Robert James Anderson, 22, in a city hotel on Monday are…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A fine of £3, with £3/11/ costs, and £1 witness's expenses, was imposed on H. R. Hayman Pty. Ltd., of Darby-street, Newcastle, for not having observed the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A King's Bench Jury, awarded £2000 damages to Major Mayo. inventor of the Mayo-Mercury composite planes and £500 each to Short Brothers,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Supporting fully the contention of the Premier (Mr. Stevens) that recent judicial decisions had hampered the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Giving evidence at the Maitland District Court yesterday, in defence of a claim for damages for the conversion of Lady Grace, dam of the well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The driver of a motor-car who, it was alleged, had forced another driver on to his wrong side, where the other driver struck and fatally injured a cyclist, had…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A young man who had been held in Kew Mental Asylum for 15 years as a criminal lunatic was ordered to be released immediately by the State Full Court…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →One of the inherent difficulties that had arisen recently in crime detection was due to judicial decisions which defined very…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"He is a cobber of mine and I don't want to proceed against him," said Ernest John Maher at the Newcastle Police Court, to-day, when Harold…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police at Albury are searching a dam where clothing was found, in the hopes of finding a pistol,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eric George Hunt, of Douglass-st., Stockton, reported to Newcastle police last night that a bag containing £2 10s in notes and silver had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On a charge of having murdered Irene May Rand, 22. of Crawford-road. Brighton-Le-Sands, Maud Shumack, 42, domestic duties, of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Edward Lanigan, 68, of Balmain, was charged in the Police Court yesterday morning with the murder of John Larkin, 54, of Preston (Vic.). He was remanded…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The salary of the Police Commissioner (Mr. Mackay) was increased by decision of the Slate Cabinet several months ago. It is understood that the increase was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Special investigation officers of the Postal Department indicated that they would visit a Victorian country town to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wycheproof dam murder victim, whose semi-nude body was found on Friday, has not been identified. Nobody in the district has been…
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