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

Courts & crime, 1939

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Further Bombing Police Make Big Drive

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: There was a further attempt to interfere with the electricity supplies to-day, when an attempt was made…

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WED'DAY & Thursday (January 25 & 26) Time Out For Murder

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 4

"Time Out For Murder," first of 20th Century Fox's new Roving Reporters series, is scheduled for screening on Wednesday and Thursday…

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Good Work by Police Robberies Cleared Up

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 4

Mystery surrounding the theft of a motor car and other property at Marulan and Goulburn has been cleared up as a result…

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Death and Destruction Through 110,000 Acres of Burnt Country Colossal Loss in Homes, Woolsheds, Grass, Stock and Fencing Police Compiling Comprehensive Report for Government

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 1

The cost of the bushfires which affected a large number of landowners in the Yass district will be colossal. Estimates of the damage done, now being compiled by the police for the Government, are staggering. A survey of the…

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Magistrate Farewelled Last Sitting At Crookwell Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 23 January 1939 · page 1

CROOKWELL: As last Thursday's sitting of the Crookwell Police Court marked the last occasion that the P.M., Mr. W. F…

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District Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 23 January 1939 · page 2

Judge Hill will preside at the next sitting of the District Court on Thursday, February 2. Cases listed are William Charles Seaman…

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Court Not Rest Room, Says Judge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 23 January 1939 · page 1

"I am beginning to believe that the stamina of the race is deteriorating," said Mr. Justice Langton, in the London…

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Charges of Embezzling Footballer Before The Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 23 January 1939 · page 4

At the Goulburn Police Court this morning Alfred Smith, a well known footballer, was charged with two counts of…

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Lit Fire: Left It Burning Court Fixes Its Penalty At £2 For Neglect

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 23 January 1939 · page 4

At the Goulburn Police Court this morning Charles Millyn, of Lake Road, Bungendore, was fined £2 with 8/ costs on a…

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Clean Sheet No Criminal Cases Last Year More Cases in Children’s Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 23 January 1939 · page 2

The annual return compiled at the C.P.S. office shows there were no cases at the Quarter Sessions last year, as compared with two in 1937…

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Unusual Case In Police Court Debt Collector Charged Action By Incorporated Law Institute

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1939 · page 1

Edwin Newton Daly, secretary of the Incorporated Law Institute of New South Wales, was the informant in as unusual case at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday, when Harry Wilson, of Sydney, was charged under the Legal…

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Bathurst Gaol May Be Closed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1939 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday: It is reported that the Bathurst Gaol, in which there have recently been several prison riots, may be closed down as a…

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Warden's Court Dredging Leases Issued

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1939 · page 1

An application by William James Dunk of Arden Street, Coogee, for a suspension of labour conditions on three dredging leases in…

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MR. W. F. BRITZ Final Goulburn Court Official Farewell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1939 · page 4

Regret that his duties had not permitted a closer contact with the social activities of Goulburn during his term as magistrate…

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Man Is Charged with Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Arthur Frederick Kerr, who was committed for trial at Christchurch, New Zealand, yesterday, for the murder of his wife…

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Police Court Cutting of Trees

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 30 January 1939 · page 4

Pursuing its policy to protect trees growing on the roadsides throughout the shire, the Wingecarribee Shire Council, through…

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Police Raid in Liverpool

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 30 January 1939 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday: The police raided the Irish quarter of Liverpool and arrested five, including a father and…

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Magistrate's Farewell Mr. Britz's Last Visit Tributes From Solicitors

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 February 1939 · page 8

Mr. W. F. Britz, Police Magistrate, who has been transferred from the Goulburn Circuit to the Sydney Children's Court, paid his…

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Local and General District Court Adjourned

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 2 February 1939 · page 2

Owing to the illness of Judge Hill, the District Court, which was to have been held to-day at Yass, has been adjourned. There was one case…

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Battered to Death Shocking Tumut Assault

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 5

Violently attacked in the yard of the Wool Pack Hotel at Tumut on Saturday night Michael Downing Junr. (40)…

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