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

Courts & crime, 1932

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Quick Work Police Make Arrest

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 7 March 1932 · page 3

Quick work on the part of Goulburn police yesterday afternoon resulted in the arrest of a man suspected of uttering a valueless…

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Women Charged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 4

At the Goulburn Police Court on Saturday Hilda Roach, 22, and Margaret Marshal, 23, were charged with vagrancy. On the application of the…

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Still No Baby Strange Development Police on Ransom Hopewell, N.J.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 3

Captain Lamb, of the State Police, announced on Monday that no demand for ransom has ever been made for the Lindberg baby…

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Dramatic Arrest Long Search Paddington Murder Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 3

After months of unceasing search, during which detectives dressed themselves as hoboes and tramped and…

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Charges Deferred On Magistrate’s Suggestion

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 5

James Walsh Grosvenor was charged in the Court before Mr. M. E. Soane, on Tuesday, for keeping a printing press and not having the…

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VIOLENCE Murder Charge Man Shot Dead Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 3

At the Central Criminal Court Reginald Frederick Woodley, 19, labourer, was charged with having murdered Cecil Rudgeworth…

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Blackmail Case Rector's Kiss Warden Sentenced. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 11 March 1932 · page 5

"What you did was almost incredibly base Blackmail is always a terrible crime and this is a graved example of it."…

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Drink at 2.30 A.M. Three Men Charged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 11 March 1932 · page 8

Attempts by three men to obtain drink at the Railway Refreshment Rooms at Goulburn at 2.30 a.m. yesterday, while not…

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Yagoona Murder Found Guilty Jury Ask for Mercy Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 11 March 1932 · page 8

Reginald Frederick Woodley, 19 labourer, was found guilty at the Central Criminal Court yesterday of the murder of Cecil…

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Withdrawal of Funds Mr. Lang's Action Over £1,000,000 Taken Out Under Police Escort

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 14 March 1932 · page 3

State officials, escorted by police, on Saturday withdrew £750,000 from the head office of the Bank of New South Wales, and another sum exceeding a quater of a million from the head office of the Commercial…

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£24 STOLEN Chinese a Victim Theft at Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 March 1932 · page 3

That a suitcase' containing £24 and three suits of clothes had been stolen from his tent at the Goulburn showground on Friday…

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Goods Stolen Week-end Theft

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 March 1932 · page 2

A further case of theft from a shop in Auburn Street was reported to the Goulburn police on Saturday, a quantity of tobacco and clothing having…

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Old Man Charged "Under the Influence"

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 March 1932 · page 2

After driving in an erratic manner along Aulburn Street, the driver of a lorry was seen by Constable Hickman to stagger…

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Gaol Concert Good Programme

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 March 1932 · page 1

On Saturday afternoon a concert party, organised by Mr. Chas Thompson, paid a visit to the Goulburn Reformatory and gave…

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Supreme Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 March 1932 · page 3

The Supreme Court is listed to sit at Goulburn on Tuesday, April 12. No Goulburn caries are set down, but it is understood that the jury has been…

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New Guard Attack On Police Chief Mr. Lyons’ Attitude

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 17 March 1932 · page 3

Addressing a meeting of the New Guard at Manly on Monday, Mr. Eric Campbell accused the Chief Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) of…

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Prison Riots Strange Scenes in British Court London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 March 1932 · page 3

Conveyed in motor lorries, heavily guadred, along a police patrolled road, 32 Dartmoor convicts were arrayed in the Princetown…

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Mr. Lang Liable If Law Is Good May Await High Court Canberra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 March 1932 · page 3

Should the Financial Agreement Enforcement Act be found valid by the High Court, the State Premier, Mr. Lang, will be liable to a fine of…

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Further Remand Stealing Charges

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 March 1932 · page 4

Leslie George Wiseman, 39, was further remanded at the Goulburn police Court this morning on a charge of stealing a tarpaulin, valued at…

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Solicitor Charged Italians and Mica Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 March 1932 · page 3

At the Ventral Police Court to-day Norbert Eugene Phillips, 36, solicitor, was charged with having fraudulently omitted to account to a client for…

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