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

Courts & crime, 1936

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Local News Violently Resisted Police

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 2

When arrested by Constable Windsor for using indecent language in Burrowa Street on Friday night, Wilhelm Anderson (39) resisted violently…

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"State of Alarm" Declared in Spain Electors and Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 3

MADRID, Monday: The Government to-day declared that a state of alarm" exists throughout Spain as a prelude to…

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To-day's Court Indecent Language

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 19 February 1936 · page 2

Pleading guilty to having used indecent language off a lane in Crookwell on January 25th William Joseph Patrick Flood was fined £1 with 8…

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Police Court. Tuesday, February 18th. (Before Mr. Balmain, P.m.) Not Returning Expired License

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 20 February 1936 · page 3

Thomas A. Saunders, was summoned for not returning expired motor driver's license within three days of expiry. He pleaded guilty…

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N.Z. TRIAL Charge of Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1936 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Graham Mareo (17), son of Eric Mareo, musician, who is on trial on a charge of having murdered his wife, Thelma…

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Native Police For Northern Territory

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1936 · page 5

CANBERRA, Thursday: For the first time in its history, the Commonwealth is to have an Aboriginal Constabulary to handle the natives and…

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Warden's Court Tuesday, February 18th. (Before Mr Balmain, P.M., Warden) Mining Tenement

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 20 February 1936 · page 3

The applications by Thomas Hawkins and Sylvester Minehan for a mining tenement were conflicting. The matter was before the Court…

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Police Superintendent Parker Goulburn Farewell Public's Thanks Illuminated Address

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 21 February 1936 · page 4

High appreciation of his work as Superintendent of Police, and also his services to the city as a private citizen, was voiced at the…

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Theft at Hotel Liquor and Cash Three Men Sentenced

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 1

The disappearance of liquor and a sum of money, valued in all at £5, from a Goulburn hotel on Sunday week, had a sequel…

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Pepper Crisis Gaol For Offenders

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday: Garabed Bishirgian and John Howeson were each sentenced to one year's imprisonment, and Louis Hardy to nine months'…

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Brutal Assault Girl Critically Injured Man Commits Suicide

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Vincent de Britt, 26, a farm labourer, shot and brutally battered an 18-year-old girl, Jessie McIllhatton, and then shot…

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Missing Boy Police Inquiring

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 3

Detective Bodel is inquiring for the whereabouts of a Bourke Street School boy who left his home at Goulburn on Saturday morning and was last seen…

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Appeal and Motion for New Trial Dismissed by Full Court Farthing Damages Did Not Allow Court To Say Whether It Was Nominal or Contemptuous Verdict Chief Justice Criticises Council’s Past Policy of “Give and Take” (From Our Special Representative)

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 1

On Friday the State Full Court dismissed with costs against plaintiff (W. J. Robertson, overseer of works) his appeal and motion for a new trial in the Supreme Court case in which a jury of four, before…

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Alleged Burglary

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: At the Central Police Court, john Eade, 25, plumber was remanded to February 27 on £200 bail, on a charge of having broken…

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Gold Stealing Charge Accused in Court Bail Fixed at £500

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: In the North Sydney Police Court William Ernest Smith, 35, a painter, was charged with having at…

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Gold Stealing Alleged. Orange

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 2

On two charges of having received allegedly stolen gold valued at [?] William Ernest Smith [?] was [?]…

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£3000 in Gold Alleged Theft

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 6

ORANGE, Tuesday: Detective-sergeant Walsh, of the Criminal Investigation Branch, and Detective Turner, of Orange, who have been…

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Appeal Fails Horse Stealing Charge. Sentence Confirmed. Judge's Caustic Comment

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 3

John Patrick De Britt, who with Ruper Henry Heidtman, was convicted and sentenced by Mr. J. A S. Balmain, P.M., in November…

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"SELF-DEFENCE" Melbourne Murder Trial

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 26 February 1936 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: The trial of William Sylvester John Barrett, labour, of Drummond Street, Carlton, on a charge of having…

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Pt. Kembla Strike Case Before Court Annabel's Position

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 26 February 1936 · page 4

WOLLONGONG, Wednesday: The Full Bench of tile Industrial Commission sat when the Federated Ironworkers' Union were summoned to…

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