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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
2,001 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 101
SYDNEY: A jury at Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions today took 10 minutes to find a man guilty of having assaulted and beaten his wife with a knotted flex and threatened to cut her throat with a razor. The man, Raymond Alwyn…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE: His head barely appearing above the rail of the dock in the Criminal Court this morning, a 15-year-old boy pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW COMMISSIONER.—Mr. J. F. Scott, new Commissioner of Police, photographed when he took over office at headquarters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Feb. 18. A.A.P.—Princess Elizabeth listened to 30 cases in Tower Hill Juvenile Court. She lunched with the magistrates…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Feb. 18. A.A.P.—The photograph of a woman with a twisted nose, published at the request of the police in every London…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE TEAM with the most difficult draw for the rest of the City and Suburban Cricket Association's A grade season is the joint…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ASSAULTED POLICE.—"But for the fact that you had been drinking. I would have sent you to gaol," said the Magistrate, imposing a fine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sidney Richman, 66, wharf laborer, was fined £2 or four days' imprisonment for indecent behavior in Wharf-rd…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Thieves broke into the Royal Mail Hotel, Diamond Creek (Victoria), forced open a safe, and got away…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—"Cowardly and vicious" was the description given by Judge Holden in the Quarter Sessions today to an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—George Paul Bechtold, 21, railway upholsterer, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Police warn country people to be on the alert for fake double charts on the Doncaster and Sydney Cup. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Geoffrey Pearson, 28, married, was committed for trial at Central Court to-day on charges of having obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BOUND OVER.—Without proceeding to conviction, the Magistrate released the defendants on their entering into bonds of £20 to be of good…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Abandoned laundry premises in Railway-st., Newcastle, which contained old timber, bags, tins, old iron and paper, were stated to be rat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Feb. 20. A.A.P.—A letter from the Foreign Office stopped the hearing of a breach of promise action against…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Police Boys' Club is to move to the Hunter-st. West Police Station premises. The club has sought the use…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DISCHARGED.—The police had no evidence to offer when Frederick Hug[?] Quartre, 23, So[?]ter, was charged with [?]ving ridden a motor-cycle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—About 520 people demonstrated in the Domain this afternoon when police stopped Mr. F. Paterson,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: Sergeant Shirlaw and Constables Dunn and Turton, of Paddington police, were caught on the hop this morning. They had the job of "arresting" a kangaroo which was…
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