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

Courts & crime, 1917

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Piggery Drama. Murder Charge Against Two Brothers

Young Witness · Friday 12 January 1917 · page 2

Gambling to death! The story of a fight after pitch and toss was played in a piggery was told to the Croydon magistrate, when a charge of murder…

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Police Court. Monday Afternoon, January 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 2

Before Messrs. Arnott, P.M., and Badgery LIQUOR CASES. Claude Benjamin Ferney pleaded not guilty to the charge of being found on the Great…

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Police Court. Monday, Jan. 15, 1917

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 4

Before Mr. Arnott, P.M., and Messrs. Belcher and Badgery, Js.P. DRUNK AND DAMAGE TO BICYCLE. Lewis Reynolds, 30, was charged with being…

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Police Court. Thursday, Jan. 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 January 1917 · page 2

Before the P.M. DRUNK AND FURIOUS RIDING. Selby Wilfred Jobson, 23, was charged with being drunk and with riding so furiously as…

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Alleged Extensive Theft. Stamps Valued at £742. SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 January 1917 · page 2

At the Police Court to-day Henry Morow was remanded on a charge of having stolen postage and duty stamps valued at £742. Sergeant Mitchell explained that the accused had been…

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Sheep Stealing

Young Witness · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 2

For some eighteen months past systematic sheep stealing has been going on at Brookong Stations (says the Wagga "Express"), but until Tuesday…

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Police Court. Wednesday, January 17, 1917. (Before Mr. F. B. Treatt). an Unprovoked Assault

Young Witness · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 4

Roy Sutherland, a farmer and grazier, residing near [?] Mo[?], proceeded against George Lowe, on a charge of unlawful assault. Mr…

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Strange Story. Alleged Drugging and Theft

Young Witness · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 5

What the magistrate described as the most extraordinary story told in a police court for a long time was that of a young woman who accused a…

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Cowra Liquor Case. Appeal Against Magistrate's Decision

Young Witness · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 2

An appeal from a decision under the 57th section of the Liquor Act, was decided by Mr. Justice Gordon in Chambers on Wednesday. William…

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Powers of Small Debts Court

Young Witness · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 2

The case in which Dr. Chisholm Ross proceeded against John Patrick Danaher, shopkeeper of Darley road, Randwick, for the recovery of £21 10/…

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Officer Charged. Statements of Police Prosecutor. Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 2

Lieutenant David Clayton Howell Price was before the Police Court to-day charged with having knowingly claimed the pay of Lieutenant Downes. Police Prosecutor Mitchell said…

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Police Court. Monday, Jan. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 4

Before the P.M. and Mr. Belcher. PROHIBITED PERSON FINED. Thomas Joseph Power pleaded guilty to charge of being found in the bar of the Harp…

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Bigamy Returned Soldier Charged. Sydney

Young Witness · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 2

George Harold Asquith, returned soldier and Blanche Edith Farran, yesterday, at the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions, before Judge Docker, each…

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Rockdale Horror. What a Boy Said. Bbnzing Writes to His Father Verdict of Murder

Young Witness · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 3

An inquest was held yesterday morning by Mr. Jamieson at the Coroner's Court, Sydney, concerning the death of Dorothy Myra Small, aged 10, which…

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Military Officer Charged. Alleged Extensive Defalcations. Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 2

Lieut. David Howell Price was charged before the Police Court to-day with forgery and uttering. The magistrate asked if there was any…

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Fair Rents Court. Mr. James a Defendant

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 2

Several applications by tenants were made before Mr. Jamieson, P.M., for the reduction of their rents in the Fair Rents Court. In the application of A. It. Robinson, of 128…

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Sedition. Two Men Sentenced. (Country Press Message). SYDNEY

Young Witness · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 2

Two men were sentenced to various terms of Imprisonment in Christchurch, (N.Z.) for making seditious spe[?]ches…

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Police Constable's Death. How a Promising Career Was Ruined. Lasting Effects of an Attack by Roughs

Young Witness · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 3

Constable John G[?]eeson, who has boon in charge of the Studley Park police station or the past 21 years, shot himself at his residence, Studloy…

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Anniversary Day at the Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 January 1917 · page 2

Friday being a public holiday, the usual routine at the Goulburn Gaol was abandoned, and Mr. Nicholson, of the Empire Theatre, kindly provided a very entertaining and instructive…

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Charge of Burglary

Young Witness · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 1

A feeling of uneasiness has pervaded the town during the past week owing to rumours that burglars were pursuing their nefarious catling. The…

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