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

Courts & crime, 1938

643 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 12 of 33

Liquor Case Magistrate In Quandary Unusual Point

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 1

In a case at Nowra Police Court, when a man was charged with carrying liquor off licensed premises during prohibited…

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Misunderstood Custom Led to Assault

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 2

DUNDEE (S. Africa): When the preparatory examination of an allegation of assault with intent to murder against Johannes Siblya was…

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Roberts on Trial Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 5

MAITLAND, Tuesday: The trial commenced to-day at the Maitland Circuit Court, before Mr. Justice Owen, of Leonard William Roberts…

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Serious Charge Stranger Before Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 4

At the Goulburn Police Court this morning Sydney William Clifford Smith, 32, was remanded to the Central Police Court on a…

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Coroner's Open Finding in Bomb Tragedy Murder by a Person or Persons Unknown

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY: Wednesday, The Parramatta Coroner, Mr. Williams, yesterday found that the victims of the Libcombe bomb…

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Wanted by Police!

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 1

Archduke Otto, Hapsburg claimant to the Throne of Austria, who is wanted by Hitler's police on a charge of high…

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Trial of Roberts on Murder Charge Principal Witness a Nine Year Old Boy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 5

WEST MAITLAND, Thursday: A nine-years-old boy was one of the principal witnesses for the Crown when the trial of Leonard William Roberts, 33,' houseman, on a charge of having murdered Dorothy. May Everett, was…

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Arab Leader Sentenced to Death

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 5

JERUSALEM, Thursday: An Arab gang leader, Mohamed Khalil Darwaai, has been sentenced to death for the murder of a Jewish settler…

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Roberts From Dock Denies Murder Charge Says His Statements to Police Were Distorted

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 5

WEST MAITLAND, Friday: Leonard William Roberts, houseman, who is on trial on a charge of having murdered Dorothy May Everett at Newcastle, vehemently protested his innocence in a statement from the dock…

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Police Ball

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 5

The annual Police Ball, which will be held in the Arcadia Hall on Wednesday night next, promises to be a huge success. Tickets are selling well…

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Burrowa Police Court Thursday, 29th APRIL. (Before Mr. F. W. Britz, P.m.) Illegal Betting

The Burrowa News · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 7

George Benjamin Littlefield was charged with illegal betting. Constable Grogan applied for a remand until next Court as the…

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Basic Wage Parliament Or Court?

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday: At the Public Servants Association Conference the report of the economic committee was presented to-day, urging that…

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Alleged Assault Boarding House Owner Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 2 May 1938 · page 4

Mrs. Emma Wright, a boarding house proprietor, received injuries to the third and fourth fingers of her right hand, said to be the result of a…

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Police Boys’ Club

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 2 May 1938 · page 2

The first annual meeting of the Police Boys’. Club will be held next Wednesday night, At, 7.30, in the Police Inspector’s office alt the Court…

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Land and Valuation Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 2 May 1938 · page 2

Mr. Justice Roper and his associate, ate Mr. Nolan ,arrived in town today. The former will adjudicate at the court House to-morrow in an…

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Amazing Theft Method

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 3

Rivalling in from digestion the ostrich are two men who have just been operated on—one for an electric torch which…

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Start Made Police Courtesy Squad

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 7

SYDNEY. Tuesday: The poice courtesy squad officially commenced duties yesterday, when foot and motorcycle police went out…

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Small Haul West Goulburn Burglary

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 1

Thieves last night entered the, residence of Mr. D. J. Jones, Coromandel Street, and stole a small amount of money from one…

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Police Appeal Dismissed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The High Court to-day unanimously dismissed an appeal by Ernest Harold Fletcher, one of the 13 men…

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Boy Hoodwinked Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 7

BATHURST, Wednesday: For having given a false report to the Coonamble police about an alleged aeroplane accident, Patrick…

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