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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 66 of 179
A police sergeant admitted in the Central Police Court to-day that certain evidence he had given previously was false. He was Sergeant Carroll, and he was a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A plaintiff at the Maitland Circuit Court yesterday denied that he had abandoned as useless a quantity of slack on glass, at Rutherford, and said he…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →That he had married' three women since December, 1927, was alleged against Eric Matthew Homer, 31, cleaner, at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Further movements of Timothy O'Shea were traced to-day by the police who are conducting the search for the three men missing from the Narromine…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The reinforcement of the police in South-West Africa by 331 police sent by the Government of the Union of South Africa frustrated developments…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Your crime was most dastardly, a brutal and violent attack, upon a defenceless woman who gave you…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mervyn Clive Arnett, 24, labourer, and George Knight, 24, labourer, were each sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for having assaulted Thomas William Fitz…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A bookmaker operating in the paddock at Harold Park greyhound meeting to night had £15 in notes snatched from his bag shortly before the first race was…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →James Sinclair, a mute, of the Hamilton Station Hotel, Islington, through an interpreter, pleaded "Guilty under provocation" to a charge of having stolen,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →James Douglas Bradley, 29, labourer, pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge that at Newcastle of February 25 he assaulted Cecil Sage, occasioning him actual bodily…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"You are not human," shouted William Walker-Denny, 34, after he had been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment by Judge Curlewis at the Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two men, charged with having been found betting in hotels at Kurri Kurri, and another with betting near a hotel at Neath, appeared before the Kurri Kurri…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Joseph Francis Evett, 41, labourer, was fined £5, in default 10 days' imprisonment, for having used indecent language in Scott-street on May 2, and £2, in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Entering the police service as a mounted trooper at Bathurst in 1905. Inspector A. D. C. Jones, of Newcastle police, who has received promotion to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A sequel to the disappearance of Kathleen Claughessy, daughter of a Balmain hotelkeeper, was the sentencing at Balmain…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir Charles Augustus is on his way to London, having concluded his period as the Government's adviser. He went to Palestine in 1937 to advise…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The action of Parliament in increasing the penalties for drunken driving had caused a decrease of 47 per cent. in the accidents caused by drunken drivers, the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →George Monaghan, 36, labourer, was sentenced to three months imprisonment on a charge of common assault by Judge Nield at Newcastle Quarter Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Docherty (45), seaman, was ordered by Mr. M. E. Soane. S.M., at the Newcastle Police Court to enter into a recognisance of £20 to be of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Important changes in police administration were approved by the Executive Council to-day. They involve the promotion of senior officers, the transfer…
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