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

Courts & crime, 1938

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Mystery of the Green Bible French Police Searching for Clues to Secret Code Missing Russians

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 1

French police experts recently have been avidly reading a greenbound Bible, not for its literary beauties, but in the hope of…

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REMANDED Man On Stealing Charges

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 7

At the Goulburn Police Court this morning, Lewis Grant, 41, was remanded on two charges of stealing…

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Demsey Murder Trial Opens in Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The inquest opened to-day concerning the death of John Thomas Demsey, a truck driver, whose…

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Woman's Death Police Suspect Poison Queanbeyan Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 5

QUEANBEYAN, Tuesday: Taken, suddenly ill at her home last night, Mrs. Goodwin, an elderly woman, died before she…

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Strangling Mystery Man Asked to Sit In Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday: When the inquest concerning the death of Dorothy May Everett, kitchenmaid at the Broughton School, Was…

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Theft by Courtesy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 2

A young married couple who had just settled down in their new home got a pleasant surprise in their mail one…

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Stealing Suspected Man Arrested on Xmas Day

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 8

Returning to Crookwell with a plainclothes detective on Christmas Day to investigate the blowing of an iron safe at the…

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Murder of Transport Driver No Gold Carried On The Truck Inquest Continues

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: The movements of John Thomas Demsey, the transport driver who disappeared while driving a loaded…

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U.S.A. Supreme Court Judge to Retire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 5

WASIHINGTON, Wednesday: Mr. Justice Sutherland retired from the Supreme Court to-day at the age of 76 under provisions of the Summers…

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Burrowa Police Court (Before Mr. C. W. Kenny, J.P.)

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 10

J.P. Power was charged with using indecent language and was fined £2, in default 4 days. J. F. Power Junr. was also…

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Committed for Trial Melbourne Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday: After the inquest on Arthur Kingsley Taplin, of Sydney, who was fatally shot in an affray in a hotel…

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Police Changes Inspector Fergusson Transferred

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: Inspector Fergusson will be transferred from headquarters to the position of officer-in-charge at Darlinghurst…

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Police Court Robbery From Store

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 2

On Thursday last at the Police Court, William Brooks, charged with stealing 11b. of tea, 2 tins camp pie 6 bars of soap and other articles…

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Brutal Assault on Girl

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Monday: A housemaid, aged 20, was brutally attacked by a man on a lonely path leading through…

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WEDDING A’Court—Hannaford

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 2

St. Clement’s Church of England was prettily decorated’ in blue, pink and' white on December 18, when Rita, elder daughter of…

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Newcastle Murder Inquest The Statements Of "Miss X"

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Monday: When the inquest concerning the death of Dorothy May Everett was resumed to-day, Detective-sergeant McCarthy said that the police had interviewed many people in connection with the death of the woman, including a man…

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Strong Protest Made Over Japanese Attack on British Police Inquiry Promised by Consul Insult to Emperor is Claimed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 5

SHANGHAI, Sunday: The British Consul-General, Major Phillips, has strongly protested to the Japanese Consul-General, Mr. Okomoto, in connection with the attack on…

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From Everywhere Alleged Assault

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 4

A case in which john Austin Hayman is alleging unlawful assault by Victor Mills at East Goulburn on September 9 was further adjourned until…

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REMANDED Man On Stealing Charge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 1

On his own application, Robert George Richmond was remanded for one week when he appeared at the Goulburn Police Court…

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Long Service Gaol Recorder Retires MR. G. CLARKSON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 4

On the eve of his retirement from the Prisons Department, with which he has been associate for the past 44 years, Mr…

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