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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 53 of 129
BATHURST: The police could find nothing in their inquiries to indicate that the explosion of a mortar bomb, which killed three Australian soldiers and two Italian prisoners of war at Bathurst Camp on June 3, was due to treachery or foul play,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Given a lift by a motorist from Gosford to Cardiff, a deserter from the British Navy robbed his host of clothes valued at £60 and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY.—"There is only one place for desperate criminals like you who seek to terrorise decent citizens at the point of a gun,"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ATHENS, June 11. A.A.P.—A special tribunal sentenced to life imprisonment an Italian, Lieutenant Giovanni Revaliand, and a Bulgarian,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.—"I am taking into account that he has been locked up since Friday," said the Magistrate, imposing a fine of 10/ on Alexander…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BELGRADE, June 11. A.A.P.—Among further allegations made against General Mikhailovitch by the Prosecutor, when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BOSTON, June 11.—The whole of the city's police force last night was seeking a smiling killer in a straw hat who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"This man is a member of the Military Provost Corps," said Constable J. Martin (Police Prosecutor), when William M. Connor, 23, asked for bail at Newcastle Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Additional Police Courts are to be held at. Wallsena, Belmont and Teralba. At Wallsend and Belmont there will be two sitting every second…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Counsel for certain employers objected to-day in the Full Arbitration Court to the Electrical Trades Union of Australia being allowed to take part in the claim for the 40-hour week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three S.P. bettors were fined a total of £40 by Mr. Doolan. S.M.. at Belmont Police Court today. All the offences were committed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—An official of the U.S. Supreme Court admits that an extraordinary error occurred yesterday when listing the case…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY.—William James Ellis, 60 of Mead Street. Waterloo, has been charged with the murder of Miss Muriel Turner, 60. who was found…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.— George Cecil Maxwell, 24, labourer, was sentenced at Central Court to-day to three months' gaol for having kicked…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AUCKLAND, Thursday: An extraordinary story of ill treatment of a little girl, described by the magistrate as one of the most painful he had heard, was told in court yesterday. The child died from beri-beri and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Christopher Ransome, 50, was found not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to-day on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rexists on trial at the Concordia Theater Charleroi, Belgium. Ninety-seven of them are charged with murdering 20 people on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DESERTER GAOLED.—A sentence of six months' imprisonment was imposed on Samuel Edmison Laird Cowden, 20. seaman, for having stolen clothing and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Stanley Gordon Taylor, 30 was sentenced to 10 years' goal when he was convicted at the Quarter Sessions for having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →If any farmer or pastoralist in the district is using explosives to destroy rabbits, Newcastle police warn them they are taking a grave risk…
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