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

Courts & crime, 1922

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Supreme Court Friday's Sittings. Alleged Breaking and Entering

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 April 1922 · page 4

Sittings of the Supreme Court were :esumed before the Chief Justice (SirWilliam Cullen) at the Goulburn Courthouse on Friday morning…

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Cause of Crime Waves. "Amateur Justice." Views of Police Officers

Young Witness · Saturday 29 April 1922 · page 5

"Justice is too serious a thing for untrained amateurs to play with." a leading police officer in Melbourne, in discussing the epidomic…

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Police Court. Monday, May 1. [?] S. Wickham, J.P.

Young Witness · Tuesday 2 May 1922 · page 2

R[?] Griffiths, 33, pleaded guilty to being drunk and was fined 2/6; also to using indecent language, for which he was fined £1 or seven days…

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Ross Murder Case.—witness Attacked

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 May 1922 · page 2

Olive Maddox, a witness for the Crown in the Rose murder case, has informed the Melbourne police that she was the victim of an attack at the…

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Licensing Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 May 1922 · page 4

At the Goulburn Courthouse on Monday the Licensing Magistrate (Mr. W. S. Arnott. P.M.) granted a booth license for the Grabben Gullen races…

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Shots Fired. Gun Alley Murder. Crown Witness Attacked. Melbourne

Young Witness · Tuesday 2 May 1922 · page 1

Shots were fired in Victoria Parade, on Saturday night. The detectives have been informed that Olive Maddox a witness against Ross in the…

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Murrumburrah Police Court Alleged Sheep Stealing

Young Witness · Thursday 4 May 1922 · page 3

On Monday, 1st May, before Messrs P. O'Brien, J. E. Gordon, and W. H. Powell, J's.P., John West, aged 41, was charged with stealing a sheep,…

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Night Prowlers. Burglary Boom. SYDNEY

Young Witness · Thursday 4 May 1922 · page 1

Thieves were active at a number of dwellings during the night. A resident of Vaucluse returned home in the early hours of the…

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Yass Police Court. MAT 3—(Before Mr W S. Arnott, P M.)

The Yass Courier · Thursday 4 May 1922 · page 4

Daisy Russell was charged with assaulting Mrs Sarah Freeman at Yass. There was also a cross action,…

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Was He Kicked? a Bathurst Tragedy. Charge of Murder

Young Witness · Thursday 4 May 1922 · page 3

At the Bathurst, Police Court, William Harold Edwards, a young man, described as a horse trainer was charged with having at Bathurst, on March…

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Gilded Penny. Man Before the Court. BATHURST

Young Witness · Thursday 4 May 1922 · page 3

At the Bathurst Police court, before Mr. S. J. Hamblin, P.M., Geo. Brown (25) laborer, was sentenced to three months' gaol on a charge of having…

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Municipal Appeal Court. May 3.—(Before Mr. W. S. Arnott, P.M. The Lighting Rate Decision

The Yass Courier · Thursday 4 May 1922 · page 4

At the Municipal Appeal Court on Wednesday the P.M. gave his reserved decision in the above matter as follows:—…

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Burrowa Police Court. TO-DAY. (Before Mr W. S. Arnott, P.M.)

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 May 1922 · page 2

Leo Farrell was. proceeded against for letting off fireworks in a public place on 22 nd April…

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Cruelty to Dumb Animals. Dependant Sent to Gaol

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 May 1922 · page 4

A shocking case of cruelty to a horse was heard at the Bowral Police Court last week, before Messrs G. R. Williams, P.M., and…

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Frogmore. Wardens Court. (Before Mr G. R. Williams P.M. and Warden)

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 May 1922 · page 6

Tungston Mines, No Liability, Frogmore, made application for further suspension of labor conditions on Amalgamated Leases…

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On Licensed Premises. Three Persons Before Court. Police Case Fails

Young Witness · Saturday 6 May 1922 · page 4

At the Young Police Court on Friday morning three defendants, William Alfred Wright, Walter Molloy, and Henry Byrne were charged with…

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Police Barracks Blown Up

Young Witness · Saturday 6 May 1922 · page 1

LONDON, May 4th.—The Mullingar police barracks occupied by the rebels, have been blown up. The rebels subsequently departed,…

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Young Police Court. Friday, May 5th, 1922. (Before Mr. Scott, P.m.) Found on Licensed Premises

Young Witness · Saturday 6 May 1922 · page 4

At the Young-Police Court yesterday a number of persons were before the Court charged with being on liccased premises for an unlawful…

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High Court Appeal. Railwaymen's Back Pay

Young Witness · Saturday 6 May 1922 · page 4

The High Court on Thursday gave its reserved decision on an appeal by the Railway Commissioners against a decision of Judge Scholes, who had…

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Accused Persons in Police Courts. Treatment In N.S.W. Altered

Young Witness · Saturday 6 May 1922 · page 5

ALBURY.—Apparently the new State Government is determined to depart from the practices employed by its predecessors [?]ven in the…

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