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

Courts & crime, 1936

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The Post Lawyers and Court Privileges a Query [To the Editor]

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 4 March 1936 · page 1

Sir: At the annual meeting of the local branch of tile U.A.P. a resolution was passed for submission to the annual convention of the party…

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Alleged Thefts Accountant Charged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 3

WAGGA, Wednesday: At the police court, Archie Frith Davey, accountant in the employ of Dalgety and Co., Ltd., at Wagga, was charged with…

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Show Yesterday Demurrer Moss Vale Railway Court's Decision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 4

The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the demurrer by the plaintiff to a plea of the defendant in an action by the…

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More Charges Against Police Rug Stealing Case Second Youth Alleges Forced Untrue Confession

The Young Chronicle · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 2

The hearing was continued at the Young Police Court to-day of the charge against William Ricketts and Thomas Cecil Costello of stealing a rug of the value of £5, the property of Arthur Howell, from the Southern Cross Hall on 23rd December…

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Why Police Objected

The Young Chronicle · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 7

When a man convicted in 1928 of having in his possession wool reasonably suspected of having been stolen applied at court to-day for a [?]…

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Burrowa Police Court Monday, 2nd MARCH (Before Mr. C.W. Kenny. J.P.)

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 3

Two strangers to the district, August Neilsen and Johan Karhunan, natives of Finland, were before the Court, on a charge of drunkenness…

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Showman Sentenced to Six Months For Fake Pretences "Petrified Woman" Fraud on Public

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 8

There were two unique exhibits in the Court yesterday which are now the property of the police. One was what…

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Station Tragedy Charge of Murder. Youth Committed for Trial

The Young Chronicle · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 5

Lionel John Roberts, 17[?], was committed for trial by the deputy coroner (Dr. A. H. Mactaggart) on a charge of murdering George Robert Gidley…

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BOOKS. Murder By 'Good Churchmen.' Shameful Blot on Australian History

The Young Chronicle · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 6

Tales of almost unbelievable cruelty practised by the early settlers on the blacks are revealed by Mary Gilmore in her…

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District Graziers at Law Appeal Against Magistrate's Decision Dismissed Fresh Evidence Called on Both Sides

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 6

Before His Honor,' Judge Barton, at the Cowra District Court, Donald Mitchell, of Grabine, appealed against a decision…

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Alleged Felonious Slaying Charge Against Grazier to Report to Police Daily

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 1

Following Friday night's accident, which resulted in the death of two men, four charges were preferred against a well-known…

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Trial for Murder Mt. Austin Tragedy an Alleged Statement

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 9 March 1936 · page 3

SYDNEY Monday: The trial commenced at the Central Criminal Court to-day before Mr. Justice Milner Stephen of Roy Malcolm Souter 17,…

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Gaol Treatment

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 2

The Sydney Sun anounced on Sunday that Bathurst gaol may be closed, but this was denied by the Minister for Justice. The Sun, in referring to…

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Case Dismissed P.M.'s Comment Court Story of Assault

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 1

"I think tills is a case of six of one, and half-a-dozen of the other," said the P. M., Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, in dismissing a charge…

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Assaulted Police Two Youths in Court Alleged Boast

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 1

That he could call evidence to show that the defendants had gone to a cafe after their arrest and "skited" that they had "cleaned…

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Sent to Gaol Frenchman's Lapse

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 1

"Metaphorically speaking, you could have knocked me down with a feather when I learned that I had been charged with begging…

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Youths May be Charged with Perjury P.M. Disbelieves Allegations Of Third Degree Methods Convictions Against All Three Defendants in Rug Stealing Case

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 4

Convictions against all three defendants charged in the rug stealing case were recorded by Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, P.M., at the Young Police Court on Friday afternoon. William Ricketts and Thomas Cecil Costello, both of whom, in…

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The Well Murder Youth Found Guilty Jury Recommend Mercy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Roy Malcolm Souter, 17, was found guilty, at the Central Criminal Court yesterday, of murdering Christopher James Bolger,…

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Lost Head, Says Solicitor Man Charged with Malicious Damage. Brother-in-law Ran Away. on Attempted Questioning

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 1

Pleading guilty to charge of malicious damage to goods, at the house of his brother-in-law, Henry Michael Byrne was sentenced to…

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Not Contested. Police Evidence by Kerry. 'The Weaker Character." Loneliness Said to Have Caused Trouble

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 4

The case of Lawrence Lionel Kerry, the third defendant charged in connection with the same offence, was next called…

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