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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1915

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Police Court. Wednesday, March 10th. (Before Mr. F. B. Treatt, P.M.)

Young Witness · Friday 12 March 1915 · page 1

John Mackellar Gilles was summoned by the Young Municipal Council for the sum of £1 1s 5d being sanitary and garbage rates due from 1st April,…

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Police Force. New Regulations Promotion by Examination

The Young Chronicle · Friday 12 March 1915 · page 5

A new code of rules for the government an discipline of the members of the Police Force in the State has been issue. The regulations embody…

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Police Court. Monday, March 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 March 1915 · page 4

Before Messrs. Belcher and Egar DRUNKENNESS. Two defendants for drunkenness were each fined 2/6, in default an hour's detention in the…

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Police Court. Saturday, March 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 March 1915 · page 2

Before Mr. Belcher DRUNKENNESS. Three defendants for drunkenness were each fined 2/6 or an hour in the lockup, and a fourth…

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Licensing Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 March 1915 · page 4

At a sitting of the above on Friday, Messrs. Belcher and Badgery on the Bench the license of the Exchange Hotel was, on the application of Mr. E. F. Thomas, transferred from C. B. J…

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Police Court. Monday March 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 March 1915 · page 4

Before Mr. Williams. DRUNKENNESS. Nine defendants pleaded guilty to being drunk in various parts of the city, three…

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Alleged Assault

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 16 March 1915 · page 3

On Thursday night last an assault was made on an old lady residing at Spring Creek. It appears that the lady was alone at the place except…

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Police Court. Monday Afternoon, March 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 March 1915 · page 2

Harold Manning Whipp was charged with that, being an apprentice of Fred John Brewer, he was guilty of misconduct. It was sought to have the indentures cancelled…

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Police Court. Tuesday, March 16th, 1915. (Before Mr. R. W. Collins, J.p.) Drunk

Young Witness · Tuesday 16 March 1915 · page 2

James Cullen was sharged with being drunk in Burrowa street yesterday. morning. Sergeant Wood informed the Bench that Cullen was asleep in a…

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Murrumburrah Court. (Before Mr. McMahon, P.m.) Alleged Forgery

Young Witness · Tuesday 16 March 1915 · page 3

Robert Wilson Bates was charged with forging the name or James Henry Pye, to an order to obtain goods. The evidence showed that the…

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Police Court. Wednesday, March 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 March 1915 · page 4

Two defendants pleaded guilty to being drunk on the previous day, one being ordered to pay 20/ or seven days and the second 2/6 or an hour…

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Yass Police Magistracy

The Yass Courier · Thursday 18 March 1915 · page 2

The conduct of the business in the Yass Police Court calls for special notice. Yass is not a wayside village, but an important town situated…

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Licensing Court

Young Witness · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 2

At the Licensing Court on Wednesday, before Messrs. F. B. Treatt, P.M., J. Forsythe and C. Wright J.'s P., the following renewals of licenses…

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Police Court. Saturday, March 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 4

Before Mr. Williams, P.M. DRUNKENNESS. Four defendants for drunkenness were fined sums varying from 2/6 or one hour to 5/ or 24…

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Police Court. Friday, March 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 6

Before Mr. Williams, P.M. DRUNKENNESS, ETC. Patrick Gleeson was charged with being drunk in Clinton-street on March 18, also with using…

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Police Guard German Food Supply. Hotel Kitchens Watched for Wastage

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 7

Paris, Dec. 28.—Food must really be getting scarce in Germany. An army surgeon who has come home as the result of an exchange of prisoners says that for nearly a week before his…

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Earle Hermann Sentenced Three Years in Goulburn Gaol

Young Witness · Tuesday 23 March 1915 · page 2

Sydney, March 22.—John Earle Hermann was this morning sentenced to three years' imprisonment for uttering certain promissory notes…

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Police Court. Monday, March 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 March 1915 · page 1

Before Mr. G. R. Williams, P.M. INDECENT BEHAVIOUR. Robert Kimpton pleaded guilty to behaving indecently in Auburn-street on Saturday, and…

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Police Court. Tuesday, March 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 March 1915 · page 2

Before Mr. Belcher and Mr. L. C. Ear ALLEGED STEALING. George Wheeler (22) was charged with stealing at Goulburn on 18th March a portmanteau…

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Crookwell Police Court. Thursday, March 18

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 23 March 1915 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs J. R. Williams, P.M., and Sullivan, J. P. Harry Beat Whiting pleaded not guilty to attempting to catch trout in the…

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