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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 94
SYDNEY: Clifford Tasman Thompson (Cliffie Thomas,) said that the gun with which he shot himself in Long Bay Gaol was smuggled in by a remand prisoner. This was stated at the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COMMITTAL.—Albert Thomas Barnaby, 21, labourer, was committed for trial at Newcastle Quarter sessions on April 16, on charges at having, at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Dismissing on appeal by James Robert Parnell, 35, hairdresser, against a sentence of three months' gaol for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Police Boys' Club's cycling section has been granted affiliation with the N.S.W. Amateur Cyclists' Union, and staged Its first race, with 14 starters, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →LONDON, Thursday.—Eight thousand planes dropped 10,000 tons of bombs on Germany in the greatest Allied air assault of all time…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A number of men playing "heading 'em" were surprised by the police on a vacant allotment in Kotara Road. Adamstown, on Sunday. March…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Because of the number of robberies at week-ends the Inspector in charge of Newcastle police sub-district (Mr. McLeay) warns householders to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The dispute at H. R. Hayman Pty. Ltd., City clothing manufacturers, had been referred to the Federal Arbitration Court, said the Secretary of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LOS,ANGELES, Thursday: Mrs. Virginia Lederer, former wife of actor Orson Welles, has reached a Court settlement of her suit against…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PICKPOCKETING ALLEGED. — After the evidence had been taken of two Filipino seamen, the further hearing was adjourned until April 4 of a case…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SOFIA, March 23. A.A.P.—A People's Court sentenced into death the Chief of Police and 21 other police officials…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday.—"You are a—murderer. I don't know whether my children have got paralysis or not, and you are going to turn them out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A man with 67 convictions coverine three States was sentenced to six months gaol at the West Malt land Police Court today for stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY.—Albert William Butcher (58), egg grader, was charged, at the Central Court today, with having, at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE: For having conspired to obtain petrol ration tickets illegally, Eric Jenner. 33. plumber and Malcolm David Dixon. 34,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Sunday.—Sergeant Joseph Macavoy (25). of Brooklyn, was executed In the electric chair at Nebraska Penitentiary today for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"FELT AWFUL.—"I felt awful," said a 15-year-old bay, describing his reaction to photographs shown him, when giving evidence in a case against Albert Bruce…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →While investigating a robbery at a West End milk bar, Newcastle detectives were put on the track of the stolen property through an anonymous 'phone call and recovered the bulk of it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The trial of four men, charged with the attempted murder of Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones was unexpectedly adjourned for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police believe a novice gunman was responsible for the cold-blooded murder of a Sydney solicitor Joseph Morgan…
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