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

Courts & crime, 1935

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Federal Police a Big Extension

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday: The Federal Government has decided to establish a corps of Federal police officers in Victoria for the protection of…

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Revolver Shots a Police Chase

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 6

Residents in the vicinity of . Lackey Street, Moss Vale, were startled , on Monday night when two revolver shots were fired in…

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Sydney Murder Brutally Battered Man Gives Himself Up

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Monday: Looking haggard, and drawn and unshaven, a man walked into the Sutherland police station yesterday morning and…

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A Rifle Shot Man Before the Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday: At the Central Criminal Court to-day, Charles Saunders, 70, appeared on a charge of having mallciously wounded Francis…

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Month's Gaol Stolen Chaff Bags

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 2

Sentence of one month's gaol was imposed at the Goulburn Police Court on Patrick Fitzpatrick when he pleaded guilty to stealing four…

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OVER 80 JURORS For Circuit Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 3

Notices have been sent out summoning 88 jurors to attend the sittings of the Goulburn Circuit Court, which will commence…

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Theft From Showground

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 2

When Mr. Reuben Gay went to get his utility truck from the showground. he was surprised to find it missing. Someone had taken the…

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Boy Murdered Mother Charged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 3

MELBOURE, Wednesday: Terribly chopped about the neck chin and head the body of Alan Richter, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. john Richter,…

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Our Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 4

When Mr. Childs retired from the position of Commissioner of Police there was a full display of he force to say farewell to him…

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Clever Theft a Country Visitor During Show Time

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 5

The events leading up to the arrest of John Murray, who was sentenced at Queanbeyan Police Court for various thefts in country…

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Stockinbingal Tragedy Police Puzzled What Were the Motives?

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The strange circumstances of the death of Yvonne (" Rosie") Officer, 25, of Pine Hill farm, near…

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Mass Murder of Whales 30,000 To Be Killed Extinction Within Next Few Years

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 4

The greatest slaughter of whales in the world's history is in progress. In the next of the season it is estimated that 30,000 whales in the Antarctic will fall victims to the deadly accuracy of the…

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Who Owns the Yellow Steer? Case Against McDonald Adjourned Court Will Decide on April 17

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 4

When the court adjourned last Wednesday evening until April 17th, evidence in the case against Cyril McDonald, -- who is charged with having goods in his possession, to wit, one steer, reasonably suspected of having been stolen -- had not concluded…

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Youth Charged Bowral Robbery

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 March 1935 · page 6

Last week in the Bowral Police Court, before Messrs. J. Stokes and J. J. Hackett, Js.P., a Bowral hov. was charged with stealing seven…

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Alleged Assault Axe As Weapon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 March 1935 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: At the Central Police Court, John .Bard, 36, French polisher, was .charged with assaulting Adelina .Kellett ,with…

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Shop Lifting Man Sentenced To Three Months

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 March 1935 · page 1

The first case of shop lifting in Yass for sometime was heard in the Court yesterday when a man with 57 previous convictions, was sentenced to…

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Driver Charged Alleged Wanton Driving Young Man Remanded

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 March 1935 · page 2

Before Mr. E. J. Forrest, J.P., in the Court this morning, Ernest Walter Alphonsus Pye (20) was charged that on March 26, last Tuesday, he, being…

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Small Debts Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 March 1935 · page 5

In the Small Debts Court yesterday before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M., the matter of Thomas Walker v. Wilfred Charles Bush, in regard to a…

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Car Driver Charged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 29 March 1935 · page 3

Following a fatal car accident on the Yass-Canberra Road on Tuesday morning, Ernest Walter Alphonsus Pye, 20, was charged this morning…

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Stealing Motor Accessories Young Man Pleads Guilty

The Burrowa News · Friday 29 March 1935 · page 7

At the Burrowa Police Court Thursday, before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest P.M., Leonard Wilton, aged 20, was charged with with…

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