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

Courts & crime, 1928

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Sergeant Avery Veteran Police Officer Retires After Lengthy Service

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 3

An interesting career spent as an officer of the New South Wales Police Force ,has been brought to a close by the…

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Yass Police Court

The Yass Courier · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 5

JAN. 10—Before Messrs Phillips and Cusack, Js.p. James Levett was charged with having a fire which he had used…

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Burglary Doesn’t Pay

The Yass Courier · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 3

“I have spent fifty-four years of my life,” said J. Dunn, a Chicago gaolbird, “in prisons. And if all the loot l ever stole could be brought together now it…

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Cause of Derailment Police are Investigating SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 January 1928 · page 4

Inquiries are being made the police into the cause of a railway derailment, which endangered the lives of about 100 railway employees at…

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Italian Court Tirranna Festivities Open Unique Ball Setting

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 January 1928 · page 2

Lavish decorations, deftly arranged in a realistic representation of an Italian Court, provided a unique setting for the opening…

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To-day's Cables Miners' Hours Reduction Not Possible Arbitration Court Decision BURNIE (Tasmania)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 January 1928 · page 4

The full bench of the Arbitration Court sitting here dealt with an application by the Australian Workers' Union for a reduction of the working…

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Committed for Trial Indecent Assault Alleged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 16 January 1928 · page 2

At the Goulburn Children's Court this morning William Joseph Onions. a young married man. and wholesale confectioner, was committed for trial…

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Cash Box Stolen Theft From Service Station

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 16 January 1928 · page 2

A cash box containing over .£10 was stolen from a desk in the office of Goulburn Motors Ltd's service station in Clifford…

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Church Disturbance Vicar Calls in the Police LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 16 January 1928 · page 2

Resentment expressed by the congregation against the Anglo-Catholic ridual culminated in the calling in of the police at St. Cuthbert's Darwin,…

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False Cheque Publican Defrauded by Local Man. Sentenced to Gaol

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 2

Charged with Obtaining the sum of £486 from Arthur Eve by means of false pretences, Michael William John. Barrett, of Young,…

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Police Transfers

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 1

Several police transfers for the Young Police District are announced. Sergt Casey goes from Harden to Temora, 1st Class Constable Murdoch…

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Murder in Asylum. Sydney

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 2

Cecil Norman Crouch, 23, an inmate of the Rydalmere Mental Hospital, was yesterday found strangled in his bed. It is alleged that another…

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Police Broom Goulburn Clean Sweep Nine Vagrants Rounded Up

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 2

The presence of several of nomadic undesirables and the frequency of complaints against persistent begging in and about…

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Small Profit Cootamundra Burglary COOTAMUNDRA

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 January 1928 · page 8

Features of a burglary at Cootamundra on Tuesday night are almost identical with those of the ,one committed at Mr. E…

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Cling to Mother Custody of Children Pathetic Court Scene BRISBANE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 January 1928 · page 4

A pathetic scene was witnessed at the Supreme Court yesterday following an order by Mr. Justice. Wool, cock giving the custody of two…

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Warden's Court

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 2

At the Warden's Court on Thursday, before Mr. G. Stevenson ((Warden), John Speechly Le Fevre was granted an authority to enter for…

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Burrowa Police Court Thursday, 19th JANUARY (Before Mr. G. Stevenson, P.m.) Unregistered Dogs

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 4

John Murphy, through his solicitor, Mr. L. J. O'Neill, pleaded guilty to keeping three unregistered dogs. He was fined 10/- and 8/- costs in the…

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Now Becomes Mystery Murder of a Chauffeur PARIS

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 4

The murder of the chaffeur named L. Faure has developed into a first class mystery. His body was not found at the spot…

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Marengo Man Charged Alleged Attempt to Defraud Dubbo Mercer. Presented a False Cheque. Statement to a Constable

The Young Chronicle · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 6

A charge of false pretences was preferred against Clarence Michael O'Connor, aged 24, of Marengo, at Young Police Court…

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Vagrant Sentenced

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1928 · page 5

Reproducing an entire, war as it actually took place is the task which confronted James Cruze, Paramount Director, whose production of "Old…

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