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

Courts & crime, 1937

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S. A. Maddocks Charged Crowded Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Sydney Aubrey Maddocks, 56, a public servant, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with…

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Case Dismissed Charge of Stealing Bicycle Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 2

An allegation that Arthur Claude Crisp had stolen a bicycle valued at £4, the property of Norman James Lyons,—at—…

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Begging Alms Three Months' Gaol Showground Arrest

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 1

Claude Benjamin Ferncy was sentenced to these months hard labour at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday morning on a…

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Police Court. Tuesday, March 16th. (Before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.m.) Depasturing Cattle on the Street

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 3

W. A. McRae (Impounding Officer for the Murrumburrah Municipal Council) proceeded against Ernest Brown for allowing his cattle to…

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Notes From Gundaroo Need For Resident Police Officer

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 5

Petty thefts are prevalent in the village, this emphasising the need for a resident police officer. Most miners who have been at the…

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Property Stolen from Motor Cars Whilst the Owners Attend Kingsvale Dance. a Young Man Sentenced to Three Months' Imprisonment

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 2

At the Murrumburrah Police Court on Tuesday last (before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M.) a young man named William Rlcketts…

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Jugiong Police Ball. a Very Successful Social Event Over One Hundred Couples Present

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 3

The Jugiong Town Hall was the scene of gaiety and merriment on Friday night last, 12th inst., the occasion being the Jugiong Police Ball,…

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Warden's Court. Tuesday, March 16th. (Before Mr Grugeon, P.M., Warden)

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 2

James H. A. Gordon applied, for an Authority to enter the property belonging to the Estate of late Charles Coddington, for mining purposes…

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Million Workers to Strike For Half a Day in Paris Riots in French Capital Rival Parties Clash Six Killed and 140 Police Wounded

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 5

PARIS, Wednesday: Six persons were killed and many were injured, many of them seriously, in a fierce fight between Fascists and members of the Popular Front in the…

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Car Goes to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 3

In Chicago, not the reckless driver but his car is being sentenced to prison, one judge having started the practice of impounding cars involved…

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Case Settled Wingello Litigants Magistrate's Suggestion

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 22 March 1937 · page 3

After hearing the whole of the evidence in a case involving a charge of insulting language at the Moss Vale Police Court, on…

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Pope's Encyclical to Germany Nazis Charged Breach of Concordat of 1933

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 22 March 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday: The Berlin correspondent of the Times says Germany is surprised by the encyclical, which arrived last night and which was hastily distributed by…

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Agency Law Estate Agents in Court BURTON v FUTTER

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 22 March 1937 · page 3

Mr. A. G. Hardwick had a difficult task on Wednesday last at Bowral when two prominent Bowral estate agents…

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Two Milk Vendors Before Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 1

Failure to provide measure boxes on vehicles used for the delivery of milk led to the conviction of two milk vendors at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday. The defendants were Robert Lean…

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Murder Charges Woman and Son

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: When Marion Elizabeth Payne, 37, of Bowen, was charged at th City Court with having murdered her son,…

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Police Took Photograph

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 3

PARIS, Monday: At the request, it is believed, of the Italian Ambassador (Signor Cerutti), the authorities again visited the flat of Madame…

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Motorist Fined Dangerous Driving At Collector Court Sequel

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 1

Thomas Hannan, described as a manufacturer, Was fined £2, with costs, at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday, when he was…

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Police Raid Billiard Saloon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 24 March 1937 · page 8

LITHGOW: The police raided a billiard saloon in Main Street and arrested 56 men. Later bone was charged with being the keeper of a…

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No New Trial Full Court Decides

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 24 March 1937 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Full Court, in a reserved judgment, refused to grant a new trial in the Smith v Commonwealth Life…

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Gunning Court Straying Stock Prosecution

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 7

At the Court at Gunning on Tuesday, before Mr. W. F. Britz, P.M., the Gunning Shire Council proceeded against Septimus Matthews, being…

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