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

Courts & crime, 1937

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Judge Uses Italian in Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday: Judge Curlewis's versatility was demonstrated once again yesterday in the District Court when he interrogated a…

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Teeth-Marks A Clue Bizarre Police Work

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 2

A policeman's teeth marks have led to the arrest of a dangerous criminal in Singapore - Suspecting that the man had in…

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Back to Gaol Release License Revoked

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 14 June 1937 · page 2

At the Police Court this morning, Harry Louis Davids (18), who was convicted at the Court of Quarter Sessions, Sydney, on a count of…

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KENMORE Interest In Police Club Tribute to Mr. Gaskill

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 14 June 1937 · page 2

At the meeting of the Kenmore Village Progress Association, the president, Mr. K. Gulson, occupied the chair…

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£180 DAMAGES Awarded To Plaintiff in District Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 14 June 1937 · page 1

In the District Court on Friday before His Honor, Judge W. T. Coyle, a jury of four awarded the plaintiff, Thomas…

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Court Sequel to Daring Petrol Theft at Yarra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 June 1937 · page 3

"I understand that he has made all sorts of threats to the police that he would escape," declared Sergeant Turnbull at the Goulburn…

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ACQUITTED Alleged Stealing At Marulan Lengthy Evidence

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 June 1937 · page 7

Frederick William Edwards, 56, was acquitted on a stealing charge, following the hearing of lengthy evidence at the…

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Theft Charge Just Did Not Live Up To His Name Goulburn Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 June 1937 · page 1

Albert- Henry Just, 27, was sentenced to six months' hard labour at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday morning, when he…

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Rent Arrears Court Makes Order

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 June 1937 · page 8

An application by a judgment debtor, Alexander ,Baker, to pay off rent arrears of £6/16/ at the rate of £1 a month was…

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Roosevelt and High Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 June 1937 · page 7

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: The Senate Judiciary Committee, in its report on the President's Judiciary Bill, calls it a "needless, futile, and…

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GUILTY One Goes To Gaol And Other Has A Chance Quarter Sessions

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 June 1937 · page 1

John Thomas Whitton and Frank John, Lovett pleaded guilty to two charges of breaking, entering and stealing at the…

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District Court Will Sit To-morrow

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 June 1937 · page 7

Following legal representations, His Honour, Judge Coyle, who is at present sitting in Quarter Sessions at Goulburn, to-day decided that the…

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Petrol Theft Davids Sentenced to Three Months

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 17 June 1937 · page 8

“I understand that he has [?] all [?] of threats to the police that he would escape,” declared Sergeant Turnbull at the…

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Charge of Murder Evans in Court Statements by Accused

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 June 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: Edgar Arthur Evans, 31, orchardist, at the Central Criminal Court this morning, was charged with…

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Bath Was Charged with Electric Current

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 June 1937 · page 5

Two women residing at 18Lithgow Street, suffered severe which had become charged with electric current…

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Alleged Sheep Skin Stealing Man Released On Bail

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 17 June 1937 · page 5

Before Mr. A. W. Hughes, C.P.S., and Mr. J. Morgan, J.P., Walter Edward Tully was charged at the Gunning Police Court with wilfully…

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Driver Backs Into Police Car Arrest At Jugiong Ball Two Charges Fail Hearing Lasts Ten Hours

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 17 June 1937 · page 2

To the peaceful village of Jugiong, came people from far and near, answering the clarion call off Charity, when on the night of…

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Trouble About Cash Register Claim for £40 Fails In Small Debts Court Hotelkeepers at Law

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 June 1937 · page 1

In the Goulburn Small Debts Court, George Galperin, formerly licensee of the Royal Hotel sued Norman Frederick Batiey, of the…

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Court Sequel to Daring Petrol Theft at Yarra

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 7

"I understand that he fats made all torts of threats to the police that he would escape," declared Sergeant Turnbull at the…

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Murder Charge Unusual Turn to Trial in Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday: In the Central Criminal Court to-day, Patrick Doyle 26, a mechanic, was charged with having murdered Frederick William…

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