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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 30 of 136
SYDNEY: A 16-year-old escapee from Gosford farm home for boys who set fire to a city building into which he had broken to destroy evidence of fingerprints was sentenced in the Quarter Sessions today…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SYDNEY: A young man alleged to have battered a mother and daughter to death in their home at Lakemba pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in Central Criminal Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY.—Sutherland police scoured rugged country, three miles outside Heathcote, rom 8 o'clock last night until 1 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—Arson squad detectives were called in late this afternoon to investigate a fire which caused more than £5000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colin James Crittenden, 34, laborer, of St. Andrew-st., Maitland and Eric John Barrett, 22, plasterer of Gillles-st., Rutherford, were each…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →For having behaved in an indecent manner in Keightley-st., Newcastle, William Patrick Rushton, 21, laborer, was lined £3…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SYDNEY, Monday.—A 35-year-old truck driver, at Parramatta Police Station late to-day, was charged with manslaughter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Frederick Botham, 48, miner, pleaded "Not Guilty" before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., at Newcastle Court yesterday to a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday.—After a young man charged with murder had pleaded "Not guilty," his senior counsel, Mr. Dovey, K.C.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: Darcy Dugan had told William Mears to say that the police had bashed and kicked him into making a statement, Detective Harold Kennedy, of the C.I.B., said in Central Court today. Dugan, he said, was annoyed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—The Chief Justice (Mr. Justice Kelly), in the Full Arbitration Court to-day refused leave for an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: A charge of having failed to take proper precautions to prevent accumulation of petrol fumes on L.S.T. Tarakan prior to the explosion which killed eight on Jan. 25 was laid against a naval officer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For having exceeded the speed limit on Pacific Highway, Sandgate, on Jan. 8, a motor cyclist, Donald J. Jennison, of Muswellbrook, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two men, broke into Stockton ferry office by kicking aside a tin letter-box adjoining: a Yale lock, found a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →KATOOMBA, Tuesday.—Donald Stewart Huison, 21, and Kenneth Michael Baron, 23, both of Newcastle, in Katoomba Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alfred Henry Roeth (21). farmer, who escaped from East Maitland Prison Farm while serving a three-month sentence…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →AUCKLAND, March 21. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Two naval ratings from the cruiser Australia were charged in the Police Court to-day with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BETTING FINES.—Three men were fined £20 each for S.P. betting on March 11 at Cessnock. They are: James Dryden, of West-avenue,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.âKevin John Irwin, 23, was found guilty in Central Criminal Court to-day of the murder of Mrs. Dorothy Dart, 49,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ROME, Wed. (A.A.P.).—The Communist-led General Confederation of Labor last night called a 12-hour nation-wide…
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