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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 66 of 130
SYDNEY: A wholesale butcher, who, it was claimed, had profited at the rate of £7280 a year from "faked" sales to retailers, was fined £700 in the Federal Court today. Mr. A. C. Elliott (for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police stopped what might have been a riot at Birdwood Park yesterday afternoon when a line of men, resenting being called "scabs," tried to rush an embankment from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: The Registrar of the Arbitration Court proposed to seek another order to restrain Communists from withdrawing money from banks to assist the coal strike, Mr. W. R. Dovey, K.C., told the court today:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pleading guilty to driving a motor lorry negligently, Ernest Neville Barnes. 21, laborer, was fined £2. Mr. A. B. James (for Barnes) said…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Police tonight charged a 31-year-old contractor with the manslaughter of the former Registrar of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY Monday.—Inspector A. R. McKeachie, senior N.S.W. Police Recruiting Officer, died suddenly at his home to-day, aged 60…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Monday.—All available police cars were driven to Mascot to-night, where a man found lying unconscious in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: A cousin of Harold Loveday, who was shot dead in the yard of his home at Miranda last night, was charged in Kogarah Court today with having murdered him. He is Ronald Albert Loveday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Justice Foster to-day joined Cedric Cuthbert Ralph as a party in proceedings before the Arbitration Court, involving the Australian Communist Party and several union officials. Ralph is a solicitor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: The Communist Party had rebanked £2760 which was allegedly withdrawn to assist the coal strike, the Arbitration Court was told today. Making this disclosure, Mr. Simon Isaacs (for Communist…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DROVE NEGLIGENTLY.—Ernest Neville Barnes, 21, labourer, was lined £2 for having driven a truck negligently at the entrance to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY.—A woman said in the Divorce Court today that for the first 12 years of her married life her husband refused to work and they were evicted from nine houses in that time…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.): John George Haigh (39) was found guilty at Lewes Assizes yesterday of the murder of Mrs. Olivia Durand-Deacon and sentenced to death…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WASHINGTON, Wed. (O.S.R.): The Supreme Court has told American police to do a real job as detectives instead of forcing suspects to make confessions. By "forcing," the Court does…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, July 19. A.A.P.—John George Haigh, 39, company director, was found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Olivia Durand-Deacon, an elderly wealthy widow, and was sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON.—Though his wife, an expectant mother, made a plea for leniency. James Counsell, aged 28, of Bookham St…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →LONDON, July 19. A.A.P.—At Fayid, in the Suez Canal zone, a courtmartial convicted nine British soldiers of having inflicted grievous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The five occupants of a stolen car which police chased and fired at last night, and later captured, were to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An old-age pensioner told Mr. Wood, S.M., in Teralba Court today, that he was willin to go to gaol because he did not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON.—Charles B. Hunt, of Rosslyn-ave., Otedling, Nottingham, is a miner, digging 20 tons of coal a day in Gedling…
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