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

Courts & crime, 1929

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Fight in a Bar Man Convicted for Assault

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 5

An altereation in the Hibernian Hotel on Wednesday last was responsible for a prosecution at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday afternoon, when…

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Man's Eye Kicked Out Assault At Trades Hall SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 2

James Digman, aged 64 years member of the Bakers' Union and wellknown Trades Hall personality, had his right eye kicked out, and he…

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To-day's Cables Murder Mystery Scotland Yard Baffled LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 2

Scotland Yard is now satisfied that Mr. Messiter, the American company manager, who was found dead in a private garage at Southampton, was…

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Trades Hall Attack Baker Charged With Assault SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 6

At the Trades Hall on Monday afternoon an elderly man was set on by two others, and grievously injured. At the Central Police Court…

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Wife Charged Man Shot in Leg CAMDEN

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 3

Following the admittance of Alfred Ernest Hewitt, 39, of Jeryland Estate, Yerrauderie, to the Camden Public Hospital with a bullet woulld in his…

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The Sins of Septimus Crewe CHAPTER X. Plain Words From the Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 1

Vivian was suddenly baffled. what did it all mean? He had been assured that Viola was not in her rooms—by an assurance which he knew to be…

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Binalong Court An Apprentice’s Case

The Yass Courier · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 5

On Thursday last Martin Henry Maber, baker’s apprentice, asked Mr Stevenson, P.M., to impose a fine on Eliza Dora Metcalfe under the…

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Barrister Sentenced Passed Valueless Cheques SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 7

John Patrick Shiel, 32, barrister, was charged at the Central Police Court yesterday with false pretences in connection with valueless cheques…

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Burrowa Police Court Friday, 11th JANUARY (Before Mr. G. Stevenson, P.M.)

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 1

At the Burrowa Police Court on Friday last, Raymond Wilfred Dunn was charged that on the eighth day…

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Frogmore Police Court Friday, 11th JANUARY (Before Mr. G. Stevenson, P.M.)

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 9

At the Frogmore Police Court on Friday last, Thomas Francis Cass and William Samuel George Thomas Petty were charged that…

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S.p. Betting Alleged. Parkes Men Charged

The Young Chronicle · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 8

A stir was caused in Parkes on Saturday, when it was bruited abroad that the police had visited a local half dresser's saloon and afterwards…

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Insults the Magistrate Convicted Man Gets Further Stretch

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 8

When Eric Carlton was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at Camperdown Court (Victoria) on a charge of housebreaking, he remarked…

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Burrowa Police Court Friday, 11th JANUARY, 1929 (Before Mr. G. Stevenson, P.M.)

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 12

Ethel Jane Smith, aged 32, was charged that on the 16th day of January, 1929, she did maliciously damage one cell-tub, the property of the…

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Prohibition Order Burrowa Police Court Friday, 11th January, 1929 (Before Mr. G. Stevenson, P.M.)

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 3

Police versus Arthur William Randell, by the excessive drinking of liquor is likely to impoverish himself to such a degree as to expose himself…

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Shooting Justified Court Exonerates Constable MELBOURNE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 3

A finding of justifiable homicide was given by the Coroner (Mr. D. Grant) at the inquest on the death of William Herman Kraefft, 28, motor…

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Court Martial Naval Officer Retired MELBOURNE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 4

For having acted to the prejudice of good order naval discipline. Engineer Lieutenant Commander william Henry Vaughan Edgar, of…

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Dirty Yards Butchering Company Fined Magistrate's Comment

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 2

In convicting Ernest Murray and others trading as the Goulburn Butchering Company, for having failed to dispose of blood offal…

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Seaman's Death Murder Charge Preferred SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 2

james Blair aged 60 years, a seaman, was found in a room at a lodging-house in Erskine St. late on Saturday afternoon, with slashes about the…

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Gaol for Theft

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 5

Having just completd a sentence for stealing at the Goulburn Reformntory, Walter Rails (25) was, at the Goulburn police Court yesterday,…

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Teacher's Theft Magistrate's Warning SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 2

Eliza Burside. a teacher. was conricted at the Central Police Court this morning of stealing goods from the shop of Winr's. Ltd, The Police…

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