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

Courts & crime, 1929

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Alleged Larceny Cheque in Wrong Account Circuit Court Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 April 1929 · page 2

How a cheque for £854/5/, drawn in favour of Daigety and Co., Ltd., Cootamundra, in payment for sheep by Arthur John…

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Theft of Cars

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 1 May 1929 · page 2

Herbert Henry Finn (20), who was committed for trial at Goulburn in March on charges of having stolen motor cars belonging to Horold…

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Police Court Tuesday, April 30th, 1929. (Heard before Messrs. A. J. Clifton and R. J. Winning, J's.P) Stealing Charges

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 May 1929 · page 3

At the Crookwell Police Court yesterday morning Patrick Frank Walsh was charged with stealing a scarf from a motor car at Grabben Gullen,…

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Canadian Crimes Father's Fiendish Murder VANCOUVER

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 1 May 1929 · page 2

Murder stalked through Western Canada yesterday. At Vancouver Frank Marteri shot and killed Maggie La Faen a pretty champion dancer,…

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Stolen Skins Two Youths Before Court "Money For The Show"

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 1 May 1929 · page 2

Alleged to have persuaded Arthur Maxwell Wilson to steal 117 lb. of rabbit skins in order to get money to go to the Crookwell…

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Skin Stealing Case Crookwell Youth Convicted

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 4

The jury acquitted William Joseph O'Brien, of Crookwell, in the Goulburn Circuit Court yesterday afternoon, of the charges of stealing and receiving…

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Police Transfer

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 2

Constable Anderson has received notice of his transfer from Yass to Frogmore station, as Officer-in-charge of police at that centre. Constable and…

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Theft of Clothes Boxer Gets Six Months

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 2

James Dale, a boxer, who pleaded guilty at the Goulburn Circuit Court to breaking and entering the pavilion at the Showground at Adaminaby on…

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Fire and Assault Epping Man's Story to Police SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 4

Oswald Henry Beer (50), proprietor of a paint and oil store at Epping, informed the police this morning that at about four o'clock he heard sounds…

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Cowardly Assault Strikers' Brutal Treatment MELBOURNE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 3

As the out come of disturbances between rival factions at a meeting of timber workers and building trade unionists, at the Trades Hall, a…

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New Police Constable

The Young Chronicle · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 1

Constable Windsor has arrived at Young from Brewarrina in the place of Constable Eadie, transferred…

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To-day's Cables "Blood Bath" "Inhuman Berlin Police" Communists Inflame Workers BERLIN

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 4

Following yesterday's riots, to-day was comparatively quiet, with police patrolling the city armed with carbines. The situation,…

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Missing Cheque Man Charged With Theft

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 2

A cheque said to have changed hands many times in a "two-up" school at a construction camp at Lake George, Collector, figured in a case at the…

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Magistrate's Trip by 'Plane Two Court Sittings

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 2

Mr. Harrison, p.m. at Young, Cootamundra and other centres was able to reside over two licensing courts in the one-day as the result of…

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Double D's in Court One Arrested Outside Police Station Another in Hotel Bar-room

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 1

Getting drunk outside a police station [?] very safe. And when you start singing out at the top of your voice as well, you're…

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Timber Workers Blamed. for Railway Square Assault. Sydney

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 2

Three men, said to be timber workers, attacked Arthur Hickey in Railway Square last night and kicked him into unconsciousness. They then…

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Assaults Alleged Cases at Balmain Court SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 2

Six timber workers were charged before the Balmain Police Court this morning with having been implicated in recent assaults on five voluntary…

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"Shot by Police" N.Z. Journalist's Death New Light On Berlin Riots BERLIN

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 2

At the inquest on Charles E. Mackay, the New Zealand journalist, who was shot during the riots, merely disclosed that he…

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Two Men Arrested Miss Branson's Murder LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 2

In connection with the murder of Miss Olive Branson, cousin of an English" High Court Judge, whose body was found in a water tank near her…

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Court Exhibits Disappear Judge's Caustic Comment TAMWORTH

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 3

The disappearance of exhibits for the trial at the Quarter Sessions of Artie Doyle and George Carroll for attempting to break and enter the…

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