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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 14 of 31

Youth Charged with Murder Death Of Taxi-Driver On The North Coast

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sunday: In the Police Court on Saturday Derwent Evans Arkinstall, 18, electrician's apprentice, was charged before Mr. Wilson,…

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Robbery at Botany Bay Two Young Men Are Charged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: William George Babington, 23 a boilermaker, and Thomas Darcy, 21, a welder, were charged at the Redfern Police Court…

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FOOTBALL Yass Police Boys Win

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 3

After a hard, fast and open game at Bowning yesterday, the Yass Police Boys emerged winners by defeating the locals by 13 points to nil. The…

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Cycle Theft Brings Fine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 1

Pleading guilty at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday to a charge of stealing, a middle-aged man who, it was stated, was…

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Serious Charge Alleged Shooting With Intent To Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: At the Central Court to-day Sydney Ernest Sloane, 24, a labourer, was charged with, at Paddington, having shot at Charles…

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Travelling Stock Cases Before Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 1

James Bell, son of a prominent Goulburn grazier, was convicted at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday for a breach of the…

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Claim Against Road Co. Plaintiff Loses Claim In Small Debts Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 1

A claim for £43/14/8, made against Australian Roads, Ltd., by a former employee on the Auburn Street…

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Double Murder Charge Andrew Moss Before Dubbo Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 5

DURBO, Thursday: After Albert Andrew Moss, 61, had been charged in the Dubbo Police Court yesterday with the…

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Police Court Straying Stock Convictions

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 4

At the Gunning Police Court, Mr. [?] H. Tonkin, on behalf of the Gun[?] Shire Council, proceeded against three persons for allowing stock to…

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McKay Sent To Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Gordon Robert McKay and James Arthur Talbot were to-day sentenced to imprisonment…

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Brick Through Window Assault On Fish Vendor's Shop

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 4

Apparently by way of a protest against the presence in Goulburn of "foreigners," a woman this morning hurled a large piece of…

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Trail for Murder Plea Of Self Defence

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY. Thursday: The trial commenced at the Central Criminal court to-day. of Leslie Cornelius Wilson, 29, a labourer,…

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Police Court

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 5

At the Binalong Police Court on May 17, before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M., Alan F. A. Ryder was charged with driving a motor lorry with…

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Youth Charged With Murder Death of Taxi-driver on the North Coast

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 8

BRISBANE, Sunday: In the Police Court on Saturday, Derwent Evans Arkinstall (18), electrician's apprentice, was charged before Mr. Wilson…

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Wilson Is Acquitted Murder Charge Dismissed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: The trial of Leslie Cornelius Wilson, 29, a labourer, charged with the murder of Stanley James Leonard at the Pirates' Cave…

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Two Strangers Before Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 1

When two strangers appeared at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday charged with the possession of goods reasonably…

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Travelling Stock Cases Before Court

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 5

James Bell, son of a prominent Goulburn grazier, was convicted this week for a breach of the Pastures Protection Act in…

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Two Men Charged with Burglary

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 5 June 1939 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: At the Redfern Police Court to-day, Darcy Thomas, 21, a welder, and William George Babington, 25, a boiler-maker, were…

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Football Police Boys Yass Defeats Young

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 5 June 1939 · page 3

The Yass Police Boys defeated Young Police Boys by 11 points to 4 on the latter’s ground yesterday. The game was played on a muddy…

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Police Patrol Reaps Harvest

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 June 1939 · page 1

Judging on the results of yesterday's Police Court at Goulburn, the "tourist" traffic to and from this city is, from…

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