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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 80 of 179
Pleading "Guilty" to a charge of having travelled in a railway carriage between Taree and Waratah on May 25 without having paid the fare, 17/1, William John…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mrs. Dulcie Wels, formerly Bush, Narara-road, Adamstown, was granted a decree nisi by Mr. Acting Justice Hardwick, in her petition at Newcastle Divorce…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Justice Bavin to-day sent back to Mr. Scobie, SM., a case which raised the question of what actions constituted an attempt to set a car in motion. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The name of Woolcott Forbes, now a fugitive from justice in Europe, was mentioned at the Quarter Sessions to-day during the trial of George William David…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Herbert Hughes, 33, who yesterday was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment on several charges of theft at Medlow Bath, tried to escape from the Kattoomba…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"A foul and brutal crime without any redeeming feature." The Chief Justice to-day thus described the murder of Mar…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Patrick Flanigan, 25, kitchenman, was sentenced by Mr. Wood, S.M., at Padington Court to-day to 12 months' hard labor for illegally using a car and be was fined £20 or 40 days' goal for driving under the influence of liquor, 10 or 20 days for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Judgment in favour of the defendant entered by Mr. Justice Martin, in the First Civil Court, in the action in which Murray Deodorisers' Ltd., of New…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Contempt of Court was held, by a majority decision of the Full Court to-day, to have been proved against P. R. Stephensen and W. J. Miles, writer and…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Police secured an important clue late to-night in their search for the two armed and masked bandits who stole £259/12/2 from the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fishermen on Port Phillip Bay told the Air Court how the wing tip of a Royal Australian Air Force Avro Anson bomber touched the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →William Cross, 45, Jockey, appeared before Mr. H. Curry, J.P., at Newcastle Police Court to-day on a charge of having travelled in a railway carriage…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Scene of the murder of H. T. Chambers, Brisbane taxi-driver. Police are examining the body, which was dumped on the side of Pacific Highway, 10 miles south of Brisbane. Probing Brisbane taxi-killing. An expert takes plaster cast of tyre marks on side of road near spot where body was found…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The annual police sale at West Maitland this morning realised a sum of £10 103 6d. Sergeant Wright conducted the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Harry William Baglee, 20, a dealer, pleaded “Guilty" to a charge that at Stockton of or about May 23, he stole 13 pairs of rails, two pairs of wheels and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →At the Central Police Court to-day, Alfred James Ingram, 600, was charged with having stolen £150, time property of Robert William Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →For having employed Jock Fowles as a juvenile at less than the award rate, between September 7, 1938, and February 16, 1939, C. E. hack, butcher, of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A party of police from Newcastle arrested 15 men in a raid on a house in Bowker-street, Waratah, late last night…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Evidence that £200 bad been token from his pocket while he was in a city hotel with three women and a man was given by a labourer in a cane at Newcastle Police…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The State Cabinet to-day decided to take no immediate action to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court Beach. An acting judge will be appointed…
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