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

Courts & crime, 1935

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Battered Wife Husband Sent to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 April 1935 · page 1

Queanbeyan: With her face still very badly bruised and both eyes black and blue. Margaret Mabel Thurtell appeared at the Police Court to prefer…

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Theft of £1800 23 Months in Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 12 April 1935 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: At the Quarter Sessions. Edgar Hartley McCall, 36 a company manager, was sentenced to 23 months' imprisonment for the…

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Murder Charge Inquest at Scone

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 12 April 1935 · page 5

SCONE, Friday: The inquest opened to-day concerning the death of Ernest Bruce Fenwick, 40, a well known dairy farmer, who was found…

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Love Intrigue Leads to a Murder Bournemouth Tragedy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 12 April 1935 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday: The story of a love intrigue between a Bournemouth woman and her chauffeur ending in the murder…

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Removal of Dog Court Appeal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 12 April 1935 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: Holding that the magistrate had been in error, Mr. Justice Street in Chambers to-day allowed, an appeal by a beach…

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Goulburn's Court House "Most Beautiful Building" Minister Receives Deputation

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 12 April 1935 · page 4

That the Government had no intention, and did not contemplate the elimination of one of the court rooms at the Goulburn Court House, was made clear by the Minister for Justice, Mr. L. O. Martin, after making an…

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The Court House

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 15 April 1935 · page 2

We are glad to have the assurance of the Minister of Justice, Mr. L. O. Martin, that no act is c[?]emplated which will…

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Two Charges Stealing and Assault One Case Dismissed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 2

Giving him the benefit of the doubt, the P.M., Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, dismissed "a charge against Thomas Frederick…

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Man Shot Dead Charge of Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Shortly before 1 p.m. yesterday, Fitzhardinge Lewin Merton (50), husband, of Catherine Merton, licensee of the…

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Jones Sentenced to 12 Months

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 April 1935 · page 2

John Jones, charged with breaking, entering and stealing appeared at the Crookwell Police Court. The charge at the request of Mr. Hanley was…

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To-day's Court Cases Listed for Hearing

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 April 1935 · page 5

There was a heavy list of cases for hearing when the monthly sittings of the Crookwell Police Court opened at 9 a.m. to-day. Following is a list of…

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SHOPLIFTING Youth Sent to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 April 1935 · page 3

Pleading guilty at the Goulburn Police Court this morning to steairing a fountain pen and pencil in a case, the property of Joseph…

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Police Raid Leading City Hotels

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 3

In Sydney's most dramatic raid of its type for years police paid simultaneous visits last week to five leading city hotels…

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City Night Drinking Police Threaten Arrests

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 3

Following the raid on five of Sydney's leading hotels, a new policy is announced regarding after-hours drinking…

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Confidence Man Visit to Moss Vale Police Trail "MacDonald"

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 22 April 1935 · page 2

Moss Vale storekeepers and professional men had to be wide awake to thwart the tricks of an expert confidence man last…

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Albury Murder An Alleged Confession

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Monday: When Robert Henderson Rae appeared in the Adelaide Police Court on Saturday on a vagrancy charge, the police…

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Radio and Horses Rosehill Sensation Defendant in Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: At the Central police Court to day, walter Before, 25, radio mechanic appeared on a charge of having at…

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Jones Gaoled Stealing Charge Sustained

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 1

John Jones appeared on remand at the Crookwell Police Court on Wednesday last charged with breaking, entering and stealing…

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Twelve Charged Railway Trespassers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 1

Twelve young men faced the Beach at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday when they pleaded guilty to charges of trespassing on railway…

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Illtreatment Alleged Five Youths Charged "Strong Suspicion," Says P.M.

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 1

Remarking that there was a very strong suspicion of guilt, the P.M., Mr. Forrest, last Wednesday said that had there been…

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