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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
2,290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 115
LONDON, June 17.—People in the East German village of Straudorf attacked the people's police with hatchets, hoes and scythes when told that eight families…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An adjournment to July 23 was granted Mister Noel Marcham, 38. miner, who pleaded not guilty to driving a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Edwin Hill Franks (45), car salesman, was fined £20 for driving a car In Maitland Rd., Wickham, on May 10 while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A jury at the Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday afternoon found Wasyl Habryszczuk and Jan Krawatkowski,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEW YORK, June 18. A.A.P.—Robert L. Knetzer, a speculator who became indebted for 3 million dollars (about £1,339,200) through selling postwar cars below cost,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—In Central Criminal Court to-day Miroslav Tuma, 27, a Czechoslovakian and part-owner of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—A 17-year-old youth was remanded in the Adelaide Juvenile Court to-day on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CAPETOWN, Thursday (A.A.P.): The United Party would not take part in proceedings of the South…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A mystery woman witness at the Liquor Royal Commission to-day identified Superintendent Henry Boswell, who is in charge of Dubbo police district, as the man who had often visited the Club Coronia, Double Bay, and had been friendly with the proprietor, Reginald…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.)—An arsonist was blamed for the fire which swept through a Brooklyn tenement yesterday, killing seven persons trapped in the dilapidated building, which had no fire escape…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Three big employer groups will apply to the Arbitration Court soon for a cut of more than £2 in the basic wage and a return…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →REMANDED. — John Herbert Rigby 57, plumber, was remanded till July 28, on £30 ball, on charges of having driven a car…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Five men pleaded guilty to charges of illegal betting and were fined as follows: Ernest Joseph Williams (53), Harle St.,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A young man who stole a police car on June 5 was sentenced to a month's gaol and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →After sentencing a soldier to four years' gaol at Maitland Quarter Sessions today for what he described as a "most vicious assault," Judge O'Sullivan said he trusted early action would…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At Maitland Sessions yesterday, Judge O'Sullivan sentenced Reginald Austin McGrath to four years' gaol for robbery. Judge O'Sullivan warned…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PERTH, Thursday.—Constable L. H. Tully, officer in charge of Belmont (Perth) police station, was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reginald Austin McGrath (25), laborer, was sentenced to four years' hard labor yesterday. McGrath was found guilty of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission to-day directed the executive of the printers'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A young draughtsman pleaded "Not guilty" in General Sessions to-day to having obtained £20 by false pretences from the English screen, radio…
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