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

Courts & crime, 1937

624 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 14 of 32

Millie Creek Murder Another Remand

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 June 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: At the Central Police Court to-day Harold Thomas Mullen was remanded to St. George Police Court, Queensland, on a charge…

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English Judge’s Outcry Against Divorce Laws Indignant Over Forcing Children Into Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 3 June 1937 · page 6

SOME OF THE MOST OUTSPOKEN REMARKS EVER HEARD FROM THE JUDICIAL BENCH ON THE SUBJECT OF DIVORCE LAWS HAVE AROUSED KEEN DISCUSSION THROUGHOUT ENGLAND. MR. JUSTICE RIGBY SWIFT, WHO HAS BEEN MARRIED…

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MR. S. F. BETTS District Court Judge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 4 June 1937 · page 4

Mr. Selwyn Frederic Betts formerly a well-known resident of Goulburn, has been appointed a permanent Judge of the…

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Alleged Stealing Youth Remanded

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 June 1937 · page 2

In the Court this morning, Henry Louis Davids (18) was charged that at Nowra he unlawfully took and used a Chevrolet sedan motor…

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Mining Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 7 June 1937 · page 4

Seven applications made to the Goulburn Mining Warden's Court by Richard Priestley Lawrence, for authority to enter extended areas on…

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District Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 June 1937 · page 2

Jurors who have been summoned as Quarter Sessions jurors are notified they are not required to attend at the Court House next Friday,…

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MURDER Body Found In Mine Shaft Victorian Crime

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 7 June 1937 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday: The body of a man, who had been terribly battered about the head, probably with an axe, was found…

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Unlawful Assault “Hollywood” Family Squabble Mother and Daughter Give Evidence Against Father

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 June 1937 · page 3

A family squabble at the “Hollywood” Mission camp for aborigines was aired in the Court this morning, when Alfred Merritt (32) was…

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Man Charged with Murder Outcome of Millie Ck. Tragedy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 June 1937 · page 7

BRISBANE, Tuesday: A statement that he had accidentally shot dead Ernest Harry Brown, during an argument over a missing bottle of whisky, was alleged to have been made by Harold Thomas Mullen, 36, to the police…

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Street Fracas Man Who Assaulted Police Sent to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 June 1937 · page 1

Cyril Le Froy, 23, was sentenced. to two months' hard labour when he pleaded guilty at the Goulburn Police Court…

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Stealing Charge Adjourned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 June 1937 · page 1

Frederick William Edwards, 56, was remanded on £10 bail at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday when he appeared to…

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Man Hurt Assault Alleged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 June 1937 · page 1

Allegedly assaulted in Auburn Street late on Friday night, Francis Bernard Forrest, 26, of Melbourne, was later treated at…

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Mental Patient's Death on Hospital Tennis Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 June 1937 · page 1

A finding that Edwin Bale, 64, a patient at the Kenmore Mental Hospital, had died on Saturday last from natural causes, was returned by the Deputy-Coroner, Mr. E. F. Thomas, at an inquest held at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday afternoon…

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SETTLEMENT Supreme Court Action

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 9 June 1937 · page 1

Sydney, Wednesday: In the Supreme Court before the Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Jordan, a settlement was announced of an action under the…

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Marrickville Murder Two Men Charged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 June 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Patrick Doyle, 26, a mechanic, and Robert Henry Gartner, 38, a…

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Polite Police

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 10 June 1937 · page 1

The police in Newport (England) are trying a new way of preventing street congestion by parked cars. Instead of summoning the…

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Excited Wanted to Shake Hands with Magistrate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 June 1937 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday: When charges of having been found in an enclosed yard Without lawful excuse, and with having had in his possession…

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Suicide Corner Revolvers Produced Alleged Threat To Police

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 10 June 1937 · page 2

Tall, well-built and dean shaven, a youth who declared he was 18, but who, as he stood in the dock this morning,…

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Fascism and Communism at Work Leaders Sentenced to Death Secret Trial in Berlin Anti-trotsky Purge In: Soviet Russia

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 June 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday: A secret trial before a dreaded special tribunal in Berlin has resulted in two more trade union leaders being sentenced to death, a third to life imprisonment, a fourth of fifteen years, and a woman union…

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Son Charged Sequel to Man's Death Batlow Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 5

Edgar Arthur Evans, formerly of Goulburn, was committed at the Batlow Coroner's Court to stand his trial at Cootamundra…

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