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

Courts & crime, 1937

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Driver to Pay Court Sequel To Collision Girl's Injury

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 8

An accident on the Goulburn-Taralga Road on March 19, when a girl cyclist was injured, was recalled by the appearance at the…

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Greyhound Owners Go to Court Challenge Leads To Apprehended Violence Charge Case Dismissed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 1

A visit to the residence of George Henry Hall, a retired railwayman, at a late hour on the night of Marcy 25, resulted in the…

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The Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 4

It was perhaps only natural that the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mackay, should make the protest he did at the Police…

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PROMOTION Police Association Motion Young Men Favoured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Police Association passed a motion [?] that there was the gravest discontent over the…

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Man Sentenced to Death

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday: Mr. Justice Martin, in the Criminal Court. passed sentence of death on John Thomas Griffith, 46, of Byron Street,…

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Secret Agents Wanted to Check Sheep Stealing

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 2

That the Government should employ secret agents in country districts to combat sheep stealing was a decision…

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Police Move Checked!

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 2

In an endeavour to put a stop to alleged cruelty to rabbits by men who caught them and kept them alive for the purpose of throwing them to…

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Police Court. Tuesday, April 20th. (Before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.m.) Motor Act

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 3

William Joseph Pemble was summoned for driving a motor vehicle without having a license. Mr E. L. Macdonald appeared for…

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Gundagai Tragedy Man Murders Wife Suicide Near Police Station

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 2

Walter Charles Small, 42, temporary shire engineer and owner of a grazing property, shot himself dead in front of the…

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Sensational Evidence in Supreme Court Case Written Statement Contained Allegation That Alderman Boasted Of Bribing Policeman Jury Awards Verdict for Full Amount Claimed to Plaintiff Solicitors

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 1

After a short retirement the jury in the Supreme Court case in which Elrington & Elrington, solicitors, sued William John Robertson, overseer of works to the Municipal Council, returned on Monday afternoon with a…

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Unusual Sentence American Magistrate's Decree Must Hold Wife's Hand

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 1

American magistrates, in their treatment of minor offenders, often display a sense of humour which makes the reading of police court…

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CYCLISTS Police Don't Like Them Want Sole Charge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: At the Police Conference to-day it was decided to ask that bicycles be brought under the sole control of the police…

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No Ticket, No Rights High Court Gives Decision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: A question whether the purchase of a ticket gave the spectator the right to stay until the races were…

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Argument Led to Court Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 April 1937 · page 5

An alleged street argument about a girl resulted in the conviction at the Goulburn Police Court to-day of Bruce Archibald…

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Alleged Theft of Bicycle Young Man Remanded

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 28 April 1937 · page 7

At the Goulburn Police Court this morning, John Earle O'Brien, 28, was remanded to May 3 on a charge of having stolen a bicycle valued at…

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Terrible Scenes During the Insurgent Attack on Basque Capital Bilbao Still Holds Out Defenders Claim a "Repulse" Loyalists Swear They Will Die Fighting German Lesson in Mathematical Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 28 April 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: The rebels are still pressing very strongly around Bilbao and are now said to be closer than sixteen miles from the city, the defenders of which state they will never surrender. Basque reinforcements were subsequently rushed up, and it is…

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Gunning Police Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 29 April 1937 · page 5

At the Gunning Police Court on Tuesday Mathew E. Alchin, Dalton, was proceeded against for failing to deliver an expired motor cycle rider’s…

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Six Months’ Hard Labour Stealing From Dwelling “Left Gaol Destitute”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 29 April 1937 · page 2

Before Mr. W. F. Britz, P.M., Bert Allan pleaded guilty when charged with stealing, from the dwelling house of Arthur Douglas Kearton…

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Permit Not Produced Sympathy For Drover Owner “Should Be Charged with Aiding and Abetting”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 29 April 1937 · page 2

Both the magistrate, Mr. Britz, and the secretary of the P.P. Board, Mr. E. A. Hickey, expressed the opinion in Court yesterday that the owner of…

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Gunning “ Don’t Be Foolish Magistrate’s Advice To Youth Nominal Conviction for Having Goods in Custody

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 29 April 1937 · page 5

In the Gunning Court on Tuesday, before Mr. W. F. Britt, P.M., Harold George (or Lestor), pleaded guilty when charged with having goods in…

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