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

Courts & crime, 1938

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N.s.w. Police the Celebrations and Earlier Years

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 8

Now that the first intensive period of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations has been completed I should like to pay a…

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Divorce Court Fletcher v Fletcher

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: In the Divorce Court to-day Mr. Acting Justice Edwards granted Emily Florence May Fletcher, formerly Blackball, a…

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Man Shot Dead At Merrylands Arrest Made by Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday Albert Hedges 50, a relief worker, was shot through the head and killed instantly in the yard of the home of Mrs. Murie…

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70 Girls Go Orange Textile Mills Court's Ruling

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 5

ORANGE Monday: Seventy female employees at the mill of Amalgamated Textiles, at Orange, have been thrown out of work as the result of a…

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No Limits Murder From Skies

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1938 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Monday: The well-known aeroplane builder, Mr. Glenn Martin, told the Naval Committee that the day was coming when…

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Youth's Lapse Sent To Gaol For Two Months Two Charges

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1938 · page 7

Sentence of one months' gaol on each of two counts involving stealing and goods in custody, respectively, was imposed on…

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Fined for Attack on Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1938 · page 7

On a charge of having assaulted. a police officer while in the execution of his duty, Reginald James Malley, 25, was fined 5, or 10…

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"Aided Drover" Auctioneer Before Court Act Infringed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1938 · page 7

At the Goulburn Police Court yesterday Richard Davis Gray, well-known Goulburn auctioneer, alas fined £1, with costs, on a…

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Four Men on Murder Charge Found Not Guilty

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 2 March 1938 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: By direction of Mr. Justice Macfarian, the jury in the Demsey murder trial yesterday found the four men accused not guilty. This applied to both charges of…

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Bigamist Bound Over by Court

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

SYDNEY Wednesday: At the Quarter Sessions to-day Laurence Jack, Duthy pleaded guilty to bigamy, and was bound over to be of good…

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Big Police Centre Is Planned For Sydney

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

SYDNEY, Wednesday: It is believed that a block, planned to cost £500,000 to include police headquarters, criminal and police courts, is…

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DISMISSED Case Of Interest To Graziers in Taralga Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 2 March 1938 · page 7

A case of Interest to graziers and men on the land was heard at the Taralga Police Court on Friday last before Mr. W. F…

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Police Court (Before Mr Hall, C.P.S., J.P.)

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 3 March 1938 · page 3

Percy Edward Conduit, 34 years, labourer, pleaded guilty to being drunk in Neill-street Harden, and was fined 20- or two days hard…

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Fight to the Finish Police and Bandits

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 March 1938 · page 5

PARIS, Wednesday: In a running gunfight between police and three bandits who raided a stocking, factory at Coulommiers, a policeman was…

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Man Shot Dead Rifle Pointed From Window Another Man Chased Murder Charge

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 3 March 1938 · page 3

Said to have been the outcome of a quarrel between a man and a woman, Albert Hedges, a factory worker, of Birmingham-street, Merrylands…

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Burrowa Police Court Thursday, 2nd MARCH. (Before Mr. W. F, Britz, P.m.) Breach of Liquor Act

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 7

Colin Cotter was charged with being found on licensed premises during prohibited hours. Defendant pleaded guilty…

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Fight For Religious Freedom Niemoller Taken by Secret Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 7

BERLIN, Thursday: Official quarters admitted to foreign inquiries that Bishop Niemoller had been re-arrested by the secret police, whose operations are beyond the law,…

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Language at Dance Police Had To Make Long Car Trip

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 1

A lengthy car trip to investigate a complaint from the committee in charge of a dance at the Middle Arm Hall was described…

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Minister's Car Caught in Police Cordon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 4

An unavailing search for the Wol-[?]ongong lock-up escapee, Adrian William Jones 29, who, it was thought, might possibly be in the Goulburn…

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Slow Murder In Russia by Order of Yagoda

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 5

MOSCOW, Wednesday: Two world-famous doctors spent the sixth morning of the treason trial eagerly describing their slow murder of Yagoda's political opponents…

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