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

Courts & crime, 1935

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Police Magistrate Reply to Chamber's Request

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 June 1935 · page 2

A recent request by the Goulburn Chamber of Commerce for the more frequent attendance of a police magistrate at the Goulburn Police Court…

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Theft of Sheep Convictions at Blayney

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 19 June 1935 · page 4

Pleading guilty to a charge of having stolen 12 sheep, valued at £6, the property of John Marshall Hood, of Newbridge, Vincent O'Brien, laborer,…

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Country Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 19 June 1935 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Ministers generally do not approve of a policy recently adopted by the police to close down a number of country police…

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Attack on Hotel Licensee Sessions Jury's Quick Decision Accused to Serve 12 Months' Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 19 June 1935 · page 4

It took a jury at the Goulburn Quarter Sessions last night only a few minutes to arrive at a verdict of guilty in the case in which Reginald McDonell was charged with having assaulted Ebenezer Hill, licensee of the Hotel…

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Pikett Sentenced to 12 Months Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 June 1935 · page 6

Following a verdict of guilty on both counts in the case in which Howard Arthur Pikett was charged at the Goulburn Quarter…

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Aftermath of Burrowa Sensation. Accused Sentenced at Yass Sessions Wallendbeen Robbery Young Men Sent to Gaol

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 20 June 1935 · page 2

Judge W. T. Coyle presided at the Quarter Sessions held at Yass on Friday last, when Gordon Kevin Bede McLaurin, William George…

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Warden's Court

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 20 June 1935 · page 3

The applications of Jas. McCarthy Leslie C. White, and John Smith were stood over until next Court…

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Police Court. Tuesday, June 18th, 1935 (Before Mr. Balmain, P.m.) the Motor Act

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 20 June 1935 · page 3

John T. Dwyer was charged with driving a motor car in a dangerous mariner. Fined £4, with 8- costs. Alfred G. Summerfield, charged…

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Small Debts Court

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 20 June 1935 · page 3

Federal Millers and Mill Employees' Union v. C. Speer, Allsopp's Silver Spray Flour Mills, Ltd. An order made for £1163, amount…

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Five Years for Assault on Taxi Driver. "A Real Sentence," Next Time Says Judge

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 20 June 1935 · page 4

At the Quarter Sessions in Sydney on Friday, Lionel Edward Collins (17), a laborer, and Cecil Christopher John Ellison, aged, 19, a sheet…

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Boorowa Burglaries Sentences Imposed Young Men Sent to Gaol

The Burrowa News · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 5

Judge W. T. Coyle presided at the Yass Quarter Sessions on Friday. Gordon Kevin Bede McLaurin, William George Brown and Leslie…

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The Court House In the Winter Time

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 5

During the Goulburn sittings of the Quarter Sessions this morning, Mr. E. F. Thomas brought under the notice of his Honour, Judge Coyle, the…

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City Wool Buyer to Pay Penalty for Lapse False Pretences 18 Months' Gaol 'Took Chance—and Lost'

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 2

"Apparently the accused has been playing with chance for a long time and, like all others who have done so, the gamble…

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Double Tragedy Man's Delusions Murder and Suicide

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 24 June 1935 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Edward James Compton, 59, a retired builder, killed his wife at their home in Jocelyn Street, Chester Hill, on…

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Appeals High Court Decisions Recovery of Wages

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 24 June 1935 · page 4

The High Court has allowed with costs appeals by John Grady and Sydney Harold Lemaire, both formerly of Goulburn, against decisions of the…

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Youths Arrested Long Police Search Two Sent to Institution

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 26 June 1935 · page 1

Painstaking investigations by Goulburn police resulted in the arrest at Marulan of two youths, aged 14 and 16, who were…

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Lottery Agent Sentenced MISAPPROPRIATED £100 PRIZE

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 27 June 1935 · page 3

At Goulburn last week, Howard Arthur Picket, who formerly conducted an agency for State lottery tickets, was sentenced to…

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Licensing Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 27 June 1935 · page 2

The following hotel licenses were renewed in the Licensing Court yesterday: David Zander. Royal Hotel; Beatrice Johnston. Commercial Hotel;…

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Licensing Court

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 June 1935 · page 5

At the Burrowa licensing Court. on Thursday before Mr. J. W. Forrest, licensing Magistrate, renewals of publican's licenses were granted…

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Divorce Court

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 June 1935 · page 5

In the Divorce Court last week, before Mr. Justice Boyce, the suit of Frederick Francis Grocott, of Yass, petitioner, versus Gladys Irene…

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