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

Courts & crime, 1921

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Sensational Evidence. the Wolgast Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 4

At the Sydney City Coroner's inquiry into the death of Constable Wolgast in Centennial Park a verdict of murder was returned against…

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Gaol to Become Woollen Mills. a Parramatta Proposal

Young Witness · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 4

SYDNEY.—The Parramatta Wool Mills scheme was reported on favorably to a meeting on Tuesday of the Parliamentary Labor party in…

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Small Debts Court

Young Witness · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 2

Stanley Healey, storekeeper, Hondick Murrell, proceeded in the Small Debts Court yesterday against Norman Aitken, settler, for the recovery…

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Alleged Indecency. Police Make an Arrest

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 2

Lately complaints were made to the police alleging indecent behaviour by a man within sight of the laneway leading from the overhead bridge to…

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Murder of Constable Wolgast. The Inquest. Speechley Committed for Trial

Young Witness · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 2

The shooting of Constable Wolgast in Centennial Park war investigated in the Coroner's Court on Thursday. Charles Speeches was present,…

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Lost All. Teeth Money, and Court Case

Young Witness · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 3

Janet Struthers Clark, an employee at the railway refreshment room at Cowra, applied to Judge Hevan at the Cowra District Court for a verdict for…

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Local and General Petty Theft

The Yass Courier · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon someone visited Mr P. J. Peterson’s confectioner’s shop in Cooma street with evil intent. The shop was open at…

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Young Police Court. Too Much Drink

Young Witness · Tuesday 15 February 1921 · page 4

Before Messrs John Forsy the and R.Rumbles J's.P., in the Young Police Court yesterday. morning, a young man, a stranger to the district was…

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Charged Too Much. Potato Profiteers

Young Witness · Tuesday 15 February 1921 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—Two storekeepers were fined to-day for overcharging for potatoes…

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TELEGRAMS. Minister Taken Down. Magistrate's Caution

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 February 1921 · page 1

Charles Lowellyn was charged at the Police Court to-day with having stolen a fountain pen belonging to the Rev. William Greenwood. Evidence was…

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Chaplain's Fountain Pen. Discharged Prisoner's Theft

Young Witness · Tuesday 15 February 1921 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—A man named Liewellyn, who had just been discharged from Long Bay Gaol, visited the gaol chapiain, Rev. Greenwood…

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Quarter Sessions. Three Cases. of Stealing. Night Watch Man's Lapse

Young Witness · Tuesday 15 February 1921 · page 2

The first Criminal case heard before Judge [?] at the Young Quarter Sessions yesterday has a twofold charge briught con[?] against…

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Charge of Stealing Plums in North Goulburn Orchard. Woodcarter Fined

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 February 1921 · page 4

At the Goulburn Court on Monday morning before Mr. G. R. Williams, P.M., Wm. John Thomas was charged with stealing from an orchard plums…

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Tablecloth Strangulatio". Another Attempted Murder Wollongong

Young Witness · Tuesday 15 February 1921 · page 4

A housemaid at the Bull Pass hotel was discovered in the dining room this morning nearly strangled. it appears that the housemaid entered…

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Sydney Unemployed. Police Take Action

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 February 1921 · page 2

Parades of unemployed in the city are attracting the attention of the police. The Inspector-General of Police stated this morning that if some men…

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Quandialla Woman's Death. Husband Charged with Murder. Another Man Similarly Charged Sydney

Young Witness · Thursday 17 February 1921 · page 1

The City Coroner to-day held an inquiry into the death of M[?] Ber[?] until recently of Quandi[?]a, near Young. Roval Berg, her husband,…

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Qoulburn Gaol

The Yass Courier · Thursday 17 February 1921 · page 2

Mr Grant Harvey, in an address at Goal burn, spoke strongly on the prison system, and Goulburn Gaol and its officials. He said…

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Police Court. Tuesday, February 15. (Before Messrs. J. Bourke and P. O'Brien, J's.P.) Stealing a Basin

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1921 · page 4

Henry McNamara, aged 43, was charged that he did, at Murrumburrah, on 14th February, steal a basin containing food. value 3s.,…

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A Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 February 1921 · page 2

An inquest into the death of Mrs. Elsie Neenah Berg, aged 26, which took place at the consulting-room of George Gunter, homoeopathist, on February 1, was held…

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Police Intervene. Unemployed Processions

Young Witness · Thursday 17 February 1921 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Over 200 unemployed began marching in George street to-day, blocking the footpaths but the police intervened and broke…

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