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

Courts & crime, 1925

413 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 11 of 21

Police Outlaw Breaks Trooper's Arm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 July 1925 · page 4

Some weeks ago a mare which bad proved too much of an outlaw for the Sydney Mounted Police D pot—having unhorsed seven troopers—was…

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Published by Arrangement Supreme Court Judge's Protest

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 July 1925 · page 6

Mr Frank H. Norcross, ex-Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme court declares reports the New York "Sun" that universal contempt for…

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Burrowa Police Court. TUESDAY, 30th JUNE. (Before Messrs B. Morgan and J. J. Cummins J's.P

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 July 1925 · page 2

Hector Dwyer, William James Felstead and Michael Ryan were charged with being found on licensed premises at a…

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Rabbit Prosecutions. £20 Fine for Doing Nothing. £1 Fine for Doing All He Could. Magistrate's Advice to Inspectors: "See the Owners when Inspecting Properties

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 July 1925 · page 3

Appended is a summary of the evidence taken in the balance of the rabbit cases heard at Carcoar Police Court on Wednesday, 10th…

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Aves Sentenced to Death

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 2

Cecil Henry Riby Aves was on Friday found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Florence May Quirk, at Redfern on March 12, and was…

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Police Officer Praised Sgt. Corcoran Leaving Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 6

The news of Sergeant Corcoran's removal from Crookwell where he has had charge of the Police District for the past five years, will be…

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Postman Charged Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 July 1925 · page 2

At the Central police Court, Sydney to-day, Roger George Doyle (22) was committed for trial on a charge of stealing a letter, the property of…

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Art Union Secretary Charged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 July 1925 · page 2

At the Central Police Court to-day George Wheeler (34) was remanded on a change of having stolen eight thousand are union tickets to…

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Silent Cops—but Active Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 July 1925 · page 5

The Hay Municipal Council has recently placed the circular cement domes, known as the silent cops at the intersection of the principal…

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Schools Broken Into St. Pat's and Bourke-st. Smart Work by Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 July 1925 · page 2

It is suspected that boys are responsible for breaking into St. Patrick's School in. Verner-st. and the Technical College in…

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Sentenced to Death Son Who Gave Revolver to Father Sanctity of Life

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 July 1925 · page 8

In Sydney on Tuesday David Franz Winkler, 26. was charged with Feloniously and maliciously murdering his father, Franz Joseph Winkler, at…

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Bungonia's Police Officer Transferred to North Coast

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 July 1925 · page 8

Bungonia is shortly to lose its popular police officer, Constable Ulrick, who has been advised of this transfer to Woolgoolga, near Grafton…

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Police and 'Possums

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 July 1925 · page 1

At the beginning of last week the Carcoar police seized eight opossum skins from a skin dealer in that town, and he will be proceeded…

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Police Inspector Dead

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 July 1925 · page 6

Police Inspector Beater died in a Lewisham private hospital last night from pneumonia and pleurisy…

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"Play at Own Risk" Police and Sunday Football

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 July 1925 · page 4

Recently the Queanbeyan Municipal Council granted permission for the playing of football in the Park on Sundays, and the first match took…

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Concert at Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 July 1925 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon a concert party organised by Mr. S. R. Stenton visited the Gaol and gave an excellent programme, the prisoners…

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Evolution on Trial School Teacher Charged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 July 1925 · page 6

A message from New Your states that the trial of Mr. John Thomas Scopes, a public school teacher. who is, charged with committing a branch…

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Liquor with Dinner Quite Legal, Says Magistrate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 July 1925 · page 2

Mr. Giles Shaw (Stipendiary Magistrate) gave his decision to-day in the case in which Randolph Radford of Tattersall's Hotel Pitt street, was…

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Buses and Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 July 1925 · page 6

The Chief Secretary consulted. the Acting. Inspector Genaral of Police to-day to discuss the allegations of the Illawarra bus proprietors about the…

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Court's Time Wasted

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 July 1925 · page 6

In postponing the trial of an accused person at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, because his counsel was absent, Judge Edwards said the business of…

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