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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,597 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 58 of 80
A carnival spirit prevailed at the Newcastle Police Ball held at the Club Ballroom last night, when more than four hundred dancers took part in the festivities. BALLOONS of many colors, shapes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Thursday—There were angry scenes in the Coroner's Court today when William Fisher, 65, was committed for trial on a charge of having murdered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY—Except for a few small establishments, all the textile mills in the Metropolitan area are idle to-day. A secret ballot…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →REMANDED.—William Francis Anderson, 37, grocer was remanded to September 12 on £30 ball on a charge that at Wickham in May he received and had in his possession…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Without hearing addresses, a jury in-the Central Criminal Court acquitted George Reginald Welwyn Davis, 45, grazier, on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When the blackout test was held in Newcastle in July, a strong force of police was stationed at the municipal boundaries to prevent lighted vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Sunday.—Soon after midday to-day a man was arrested in connection with the murder of Naum Poplo. Albanian miner at Mount Isa, last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: "You behaved worse than a wild beast," said Judge Markell at the Quarter Sessions to-day in sentencing Mervyn Garvie (29), laborer,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Sept. 7.—"Five thousand were murdered near Warsaw and buried in ditches after which, in order to hide the crime, the ditches were ploughed up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sept. 7.—Moscow radio quotes a Stockholm report that although Major Quisling's recent illness is officially due to an overdose of a sleeping draught,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thomas Evans, alias John Doe (27), laborer, was fined £2, in default four days' imprisonment, on a charge of having used indecent language in Ecott-street, Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: The trial of Richard James Duckworth, 40, laborer, on a charge of wife murder, was opened at the Central Criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT.—Assisted by an interpreter Ah Yee or Lau Nam, 4, gardener, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having been a prohibited immigrant at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Monday.—At Mt. Isa Police Court today, George Elias, 59, a Greek, was charged with the wilful murder of Naum Poplo. Detective…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Satisfaction with the present police supervision in the vicinity of the Mayfield tram terminus was expressed at a meeting of the Mayfield A.L.P. last night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE: Felix Vacclano, one of two ratings from the American cruiser Northampton, who escaped from a military camp a week ago, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Raymond Bruce Fuller, of Webster Street, Hamilton, applied for the transfer of the license for the Hamilton Hotel, Tudor and Lawson-sts., Hamilton, from Sydney Edgar…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—When a jury at the Central Criminal Court- to-day acquitted Richard James Duckworth, 40, of the murder of his wife. Doris…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MEXICO CITY, Tuesday (A.A.P.)—At a reconstruction to-day of the murder of Leon Trotsky, pioneer of Communism—battered to death last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: When a hare caught a ratine greyhound at Wollongong last year "the dog it was that died," according to evidence in the Supreme…
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