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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 71 of 105
Newcastle detectives have found it difficult to favor any particular theory to account for the disappearance of partially blind ex-serviceman, John Edward Charlton (37), of Howe-st., Lambton, in view…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WOLLONGONG, Monday.—A man died in Wollongong Hospital to-night after a Court had been held at his bedside…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →COOTAMUNDRA: Lawrence Miller, the Cootamundra "Hermit" has not been seen for a fortnight and police believe he has 'gone bush' again. Miller (29), who had a long…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: Police believe that a cottage in Cross-st, Brookvale, in which six New Australians were sleeping, was deliberately set on fire last night. They found that one wall of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—A man charged with attempted robbery disappeared from the prisoners' bench in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DISCHARGED—Walter Arthur Gale, 25, labourer, was charged by warrant with having assaulted his wife. Eunice Meryl Gale, at Adamstown,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →George Tate, 62, pensioner, was sentenced to nine days' imprisonment "in the local lock-up" on a charge of having in his custody an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE.—At Melbourne City [?]use this afternoon Noreen [?] (27) was charged with having shot at a pri[?] and a doctor's wife…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →MELBOURNE: A young woman, who is alleged to have said her name was Piper, was seized by police in Harold-st, Middle Park, soon after 11 a.m. today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man accused of murder had admitted having beaten an elderly wharf labourer with an iron bar at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TAMWORTH, Tuesday.—It would be impossible to swallow cyanide-poisoned beer unintentionally, two witnesses said in the Criminal Court to-day. A witness also said it would be impossible to eat a poisoned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SENTENCED.—George Tate, 62, pensioner, on remand, was sentenced to nine days' imprisonment in Newcastle lock-up on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A 69-year-old wharf laborer, Henry Stanton, was ordered into a bond when he pleaded guilty to stealing 2s worth of salt yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SYDNEY.—"I've murdered my wife. I did it in cold blood," a 58-year-old artist allegedly told a neighbor, it was stated at the City Coroner's Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TAMWORTH: Addressing the jury today at the trial of grazier Thomas Langhorne Fleming on a charge of wife-murder, the defence counsel (Mr. J. W. Shand, K.C.) said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TAMWORTH, Wednesday.—The most likely interpretation of Mrs. Fleming's death was that she had committed suicide, Mr. Shand, K.C., said to-day. He said there were tragic references in her diary to "having to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →REMANDED.—George Oliver Curtis, 41, shopkeeper, was remanded till October 18, on £80 ball, on a charge of having stolen 378lb of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →James Edwin Brown (20), a motor driver of Mitchell-ave., Kurri, pleaded guilty to a charge of having at Kurri on Aug. 23 an unlicensed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Joseph Henry Grills, 49, car dealer, was bound over in £20 to be of good behavior for 12 months for driving a car in Scholey-st.,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Detectives to-night arrested and charged Tyson Donnelly Ryan, 55-year-old labourer, with the murder last night…
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