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

Courts & crime, 1929

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Supt. Childs Appointed New Police Commissioner SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 15 April 1929 · page 3

Mr. Childs (Metropolitan superintendent of Police) has been appointed by the State Cabinet to be Acting-Commissioner of Police…

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Alleged Bribe Bus Proprietor Charged Fitzgibbon's Own Story SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 17 April 1929 · page 2

The case for the defence was entered upon yesterday in the case in which Michael Fitzgibbon, bus proprietor, is charged with having…

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Monthly Court Next

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 April 1929 · page 10

As Anzac Day fails on Thursday of next week, the monthly sittings of the Crookwell Police Court will be held on Wednesday, April 24th,…

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Police Court Monday, April 15, 1929. (Heard before Messrs. R. j. Winning and A. J. Clifton, J'sP.)

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 April 1929 · page 10

Drunk.--Percy Sydney Johnson, for being found drunk, was fined 10 in default 24 hours. Assault.--Charged and convicted of…

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Baton Charge Police Disperse Strikers MELBOURNE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 17 April 1929 · page 3

Hundreds of strikers assembled outside the timber yards of James Moore and Sons, Ltd., South Melbourne, yesterday morning, with the object of…

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Sheep, Brand and Pliers Exhibited in Police Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 18 April 1929 · page 1

Lying on the floor of the Court House yesterday morning, in front of the solicitors’ table, were sheep, with their…

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Industrial Magistrate's Court. George Thomas v. J. WHEATLAND. Breach of Bakers Award (Country)

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 18 April 1929 · page 4

Mr. R. P. Graham appeared for Wheatland. George Thomas deposed he was a Baker and Pastrycook, residing at…

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Acquitted of Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 April 1929 · page 4

The jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the case in which Joseph Lever was charged in the Dubbo supreme Court with the murder of…

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Police Court. Tuesday, April 16th. (Before Mr. Harrison, P.M.) Motor Act

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 18 April 1929 · page 4

Thomas C. Argaet, charged with failing to return certificate of registration and number plate. Pleaded guilty. Fine, 12,- with 8- costs…

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Warden's Court. (Before Mr. Harrison, Mining Warden) Application to Enter

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 18 April 1929 · page 4

Application by William Dacey, to enter Portions 252, 253, and 254, town of Wallendbeen, to search for steatite. --Granted…

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Released From Gaol. Sydney

The Young Chronicle · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 2

Silas Young Maling was released from Long Bay, Gaol to-day…

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Sheep Stealing Charge Wife Accuses Husband

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 9

When three policemen, In uniform, were see at the Goulburn stock market last, week, the usual habitues, of the yards were rather surprised, as…

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Police Changes

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 2

Constable Schuback, of Boorowa, has been transferred to Cobargo, on the South Coast. He will be succeeded in Boorowa by Constable Law, from…

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Police Promotions

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 12

The following promotions were announced by the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Mitchell):— Constables (to be first-class):…

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Man With Rope Round His Neck Strange Allegations Made at Police Court. Echo of Hanging Case. "Do Not Know Who Are the Liars," Says Magistrate

The Young Chronicle · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 1

What was described by the magistrate as an extraordinary case in that one side or the other was committing perjury was heard at the…

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Gaol Sentence For The Masters Brothers. "Severest Penalty of the Law" Asked For. Magistrate Expresses Astonishment. at Lack of Assistance From Onlookers

The Young Chronicle · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 1

Admitting that the evidence for the prosecution was overwhelming, Mr. C. G. Prescott suddenly closed the case for the defence…

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Ned Kelly Skeleton Unearthed Under Melb. Gaol

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 10

After lying undisturbed beneath the stone-flagged yard of the Melbourne Gaol for nearly half a century, the skeleton of Ned Kelly, leader of the…

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Young Licensing Court

The Young Chronicle · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 2

At the Young Licensing Court on Wednesday Thomas Windrum was given a booth license for the Burrangong Picnic Race Club, on the…

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Sequel to Wager Court Decides

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 1

A Cabinet Minister, a shire president, and a bookmaker were involved in an unusual case heard before Mr. Parker, P.M., at the Griffith…

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Youth of 19 Again Before the Court Has List of Convictions

The Young Chronicle · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 1

With an ever-growing list of convictions, William Herbert Wiggins was again before the Court on Wednesday…

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