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

Courts & crime, 1916

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Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 March 1916 · page 4

In the Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. L. A. McDougall, one offender who was found under the influence of liquor in the Botanic Gardens was fined 2/6, in default detention till…

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Police Court. Thursday, March 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 March 1916 · page 2

Before Messrs. McDougall and Egar. DISCHARGED Edward Henry Waller was charged that he did at Goulburn on February 18, being then a…

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Police Court

Young Witness · Friday 10 March 1916 · page 4

At the Police Court on Wednesday John Duggan, for riotous behaviour, was fined 10/ and 6/ costs in default 7 days hard labor…

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Wily Germans. Munitions at Bottom of Well Police Find in China. Shanghai

Young Witness · Friday 10 March 1916 · page 1

The need for a vigilant eye on a German has been demonstrated by a discovery made by the police in the French concession. This was no less…

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Bankruptcy Court. Re Margaret Ann Gordon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 March 1916 · page 4

The public examination of Margaret Ann Gordon, boarding-house keeper, Goulburn, bankrupt, was held on Friday before Mr. J. A. McDougall, Deputy Registrar…

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Court-martial. Sequel to the Recent Mutiny

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 March 1916 · page 2

The general court-martial again sat at Darlinghurst Courthouse on Thursday, when the first of the cases arising out of the recent multiny at Casula and Liverpool camps, and the…

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Police Court. Monday, March 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 March 1916 · page 4

Before Mr. Williams, P.M. BREACHES OF EDUCATION ACT. The following were charged with neglecting to send their children to school the number of…

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Small Debts Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 March 1916 · page 4

At the Small Debts Court on Monday morning before Mr. Williams, P.M., Eliza Jeffrey, of Carrick, sued William Locke, Wayo-street, North Goulburn, for £7 16/, being sum said to…

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Fair Rents Court. First Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 March 1916 · page 2

The first case called in this newly-constituted court was one in which the-plaintiff, James Fingleton, M.L.A., applied for a reduction of the rent he paid (18/ per week) for a 5-roomed…

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Police Court. the Man Who Took Poison

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 March 1916 · page 2

In the Police Court to-day (Thursday), before Mr. J. J. Roberts, J.P., Edward Lewis was charged with using indecent language in Auburn-street. Constable Emmott deposed that…

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Fair Rents Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 March 1916 · page 4

In the Assembly on Tuesday Mr. Perry inquired if the Attorney-General would give instructions to the Crown Solicitor to apply for an injunction to restrain Ministers from…

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Court-martial. Sequel to the Mutiny

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 March 1916 · page 4

The general Court-martial, comprising Lieut.-Col. Kyngdon (president), Lieut.-Col. Luscombe, and Majors Chaseling, McMahon, and Storey, again sat at Darlinghurst Courthouse on…

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Fair Rents Court. Reduction in Rent Refused. the 6 Per Cent. Basis

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 March 1916 · page 3

Alice E. Thomsen, of 6 Short-street, Darlinghurst, applied to the Court on Wednesday to have the present rent (14/ weekly) she was paying to R. D. Shaw, Challis House, reduced…

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Police Court. Saturday, March 11. (Before Mr. R. G. McKenzie, J.p). Alleged Assault

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 3

Alfred John Franklin was charged that he did unlawfully assault Charles Edward Darton. Edward Barnes deposed: I am a…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing Wagga

Young Witness · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 3

At the Wagga Quarter Sessions yesterday Francls Lloyd was charged with having stolen, on November 17, at Tumbarumba, four sheep, the…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery. Yass, Monday

Young Witness · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 6

At the Yass Police Court this morning, before Mr. J. E. Holland, J.P., Robert and Stanley Carroll were presented on a charge of having…

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Police Court. Wednesday, March 15th. (Before.Mr. F. B. Treatt, P.M.)

Young Witness · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 3

Edward James Doherty was charged with deserting his wife and three children, who reside at Greenethorpe. Sergeant Wood gave evidence of…

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-Love, Jealousy, Murder and Punishment

Young Witness · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 6

In the criminal court at Perth (W. A.) an aborigine, Toola, was convicted of the murder at Meekatharra, last June, of a native named Jimini…

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Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 2

In the Police Court this (Saturday) morning before Mr. Williams, P.M., Herbert Allen Dunn, a member of the Expeditionary Forces, was charged with having used indecent…

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Fair Rents Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 4

Dorothea Page, of 14 Foley-street, Darlinghurst, appealed on Thursday for a reduction in her rent of the house occupied by her. The case was part head on the previous day, and…

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