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

Courts & crime, 1939

602 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 10 of 31

Visiting Motorist Charged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 1

Inspector Sweeney offered no objection at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday to all application by Mr. Ian R. Duffy for the…

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Two Convicted For Stealing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 4

A wristlet watch valuedt at £4 and a pair of boots worth worth 13/9 were the subjects of two stealing charges at the Goulburn Police…

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Committed for Trial Two Men Before Police Court On Charges Of Robbery

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 7

Evidence by a constable attached to the fingerprint section of the C.I.B. was called by the police prosecutor, Inspector…

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Assault on Constable Goulburn Man To Pay Over £10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 4

Fines and expenses totalling £10/8/10 were imposed on Maurice Hartnett, 39, of Auburn Street, when he was convicted at the…

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Terrorists Sentenced Explosives In Their Possession

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: Molly Gallagher, 18, was sentenced to three years in a Borstal Institution for concealing in her rooms explosive…

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Mr. Eric Campbell Decision Of Full Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Full Court to-day by a majority refused to strike Eric Campbell off the roll of solicitors…

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Scottish Heiress Joins London Police Father An Iron Magnate LONDON, March 14

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 6

Barbara Ure, daughter of a wealthy Scottish iron magnate has become a 56- a week recruit of the London…

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Alleged Stealing and Receiving Getting The Goods To Mittagong Five Residents Charged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 1

"I hid myself under the tarpaulin of the truck, and en route from Darling Harbour to Bowral I emptied the tins of tobacco and packets of cigarettes from the cartons into 'a chaff bag, throwing it out of the train as it travelled…

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Scooterised Police

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 7

Policemen on the beat in Inglewood, California, are to be provided with small motor scooters to save their feet and make them more…

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Murder of Consul Public Regret To Be Expressed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday: The Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, in a statement in the House of Commons, on the murder of…

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Scottish Heiress Joins London Police Father An Iron Magnate LONDON, March 14. (By Air Mail)

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 2

Barbara Ure, daughter of a wealthy Scottish iron magnate has become a 56- a week recruit of the London…

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Flowery Fashions Were Noticeable at Royal Court Ceremony One Of The Most Beautiful In Remembrance Of Womankind

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 April 1939 · page 3

Ceremony One Of The Most Beautiful In Remembrance Of Womankind The first Court at Buckinghyam Palace last month was, according to an air mail to…

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Lord Gifford Mentioned In Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 17 April 1939 · page 4

An unemployed man and an aide-de-camp to a former State Governor were amongst the defendants called at the Goulburn…

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Murder of Bagdad Consul

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 April 1939 · page 5

BAGDAD. Monday: Sentences varying from eight to fifteen y ears were imposed on six men at a court-martial as a result of the…

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Serious Charge, State Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 April 1939 · page 5

DUBBO, Tuesday: Albert Andrew Moss, 61, was charged at the police court yesterday with having had in his possession on April 11 a horse…

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Haul by Police Patrol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 April 1939 · page 1

Inefficient brakes led to the conviction at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday of two lorry drivers . whose vehicles were…

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Dubbo's Mystery Progress Of Police Search

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 April 1939 · page 5

DUBBO, Tuesday: Police to-day entered the stone foundations of Brummagem Creek Bridge in their search for the…

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Piha Bones Mystery McKay And Talbot Before The Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 April 1939 · page 4

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Gordon Robert McKay, 43, and James Arthur Talbot, 48, were charged in connection with the Piha bones…

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Arrest at Dubbo Man Charged With Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 19 April 1939 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Detective-Sergeants Frankish and Calman and other police yesterday arrested an elderly man…

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Mining Court Evidence Before Warden

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 19 April 1939 · page 1

Commonwealth Portland Cement Co., represented by James Burton Finney, licensed surveyor of Sydney, was the…

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