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

Courts & crime, 1931

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Police Will Act Drunken Men and Dole

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 3

"If people who are getting the dole can get money to buy drink, we will have to take steps to get them struck off the dole," said…

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Relatives Clash Sequel to Assault

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 2

"He is my brother-in-law and has apologised, so I want to withdraw the case," said Albert Rose-warn at the Goulburn Police…

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Recaptured Gaol Escapees Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 3

George Edwards and Leonard Bown, who escaped from the cell at the Wangarratta Court yesterday, were both recaptured late last night…

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Food Rations Two Youths Sentenced WAGGA

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 2

At the police court Alfred William Clarke and Francis Bevan Hill, each aged 18 years, were charged with having falsely pretended that they were…

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Girl's Death in Motor Car Police Theory Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 3

Joan Hazelton, 25, art teacher at the Teachers' College, was found dead in a car in a garage at her aunt's home, Greenwich…

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Bank Clerk Charged Big Theft Alleged Police Story Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 3

Francis Gregory O'Sullivan (25), a clerk in the Government Savings Bank of N.S.W. and the Rural Bank, was committed for…

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Citizen St. Theft

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 3

Taking advantage of the temporary absence of the owner, a thief entered Mr. C. Slack's residence in Citizen Street last night and stole a…

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Police Injured Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 3

Two members of the police motor cycle patrol were badly hurt late last night when their machines collided head-on with a motor car at the…

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Police Court. Tuesday, February 10th. (Before Mr. A. G. Searle, J.P.) Alleged Grievous Bodily Harm

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 2

Jack Wishart, aged 26, was charged that, on the 9th February he did maliciously inflict grievous bodily harm on Charles Whiting at…

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Not Believed Charges Against Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 4

Young: Amazing suggestions that a statement was extorted from him by Sydney Police by means of threats, punches and…

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Victoria Park Bad Language Used Police Assistance Sought

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 2

It would appear from various remarks made at recent Municipal Council meetings that Victoria Park, to all intents and purposes,…

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McMAHON CASE Before Court First MELBOURNE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 3

The view was expressed to-day by the secretary of the Crown Law Department, Mr. A. C. Lewis, that notwithstanding the alibi set up by…

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Night in Gaol

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 8

When Sydney George Turner, a leading Parkes baker, failed last week to meet an instalment of £15 under a Small Debts' Court verdict…

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Attempted Burglary Offender Bound Over Judge's Trenchant Remarks

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 3

AT the Young District Court on Tuesday morning, before his Honor Judge Coyle, Thomas Alton Murray pleaded guilty to…

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Theft of Hares Coursing Club's Loss

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 3

Thieves entered the hare enclosure at the Goulburn Showground on Tuesday night and stole 15 trained coursing hares, valued…

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McMAHON'S CASE Police Attitude MELBOURNE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 3

Mystery surrounds the case of Robert James McMahon who, early this week, established an alibi after being committed for…

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S.P. Betting Shops Case in Manly Court Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 3

The case was resumed at the Manly Court to-day in which Edwin Llewellyn Rees and William Edwin Ardill were charge with having…

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Back Again Gaol Fight Recalled

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 16 February 1931 · page 2

"Hullo, back to the old home again," said a detective at a Sydney suburban station, as be took the finger-prints of a youth…

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Two Years: No Work Stole To Shoe Horse Young Man Convicted Theft

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 16 February 1931 · page 2

A young man who was convicted in the Court this morning for theft said he had not had work for two years and his…

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Theft of Petrol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 1

During the absence of the proprietor, Mr. R. H. Hutchinson, thieves on Saturday night broke the lock off a kerbside petrol pump in front of the City…

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