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

Courts & crime, 1939

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Alleged Theft At Military Camp

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 16 October 1939 · page 4

A uniformed adjutant of the 7th Light Horse Regiment was present at the Goulburn Police Court this morning when a…

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Alleged Assault Queanbeyan Man Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 16 October 1939 · page 4

Alleged to have been assaulted and robbed earlier in the night, a Queanbeyan man was taken by ambulance from the Police Station…

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Attempted Murder Tragedy In Brisbane

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 16 October 1939 · page 5

BRISBANE, Monday: While a policeman was on duty this morning at Wollangabba a man came to him and said he had…

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From Everywhere Supreme Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 16 October 1939 · page 4

It is announced in the Government Gazette that sitting of the Supreme Court will be held at Goulburn on April 9, 1940…

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Brothers Are Sent to Gaol Youths Commence Careers Of Crime

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 October 1939 · page 4

Last week's sensation at Breadalbane, where a woman frustrated an attempt by two young men to rifle a petrol pump at her service station, had a sequel at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday, when the men, two young brothers…

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Court Allows 2 Years to Pay Damages Suit Arises From Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 18 October 1939 · page 1

After unsuccessfully defending a claim for £21/7/6, plus costs at the Goulburn Small Debts Court, a Kenmore…

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Convicted of Stealing

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 19 October 1939 · page 2

In the Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. E. A. Rickey and E. J. O’Connor, J.P, Sydney John Dempsey an old offender was charged…

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Wanted by Police

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 19 October 1939 · page 2

The organiser, Const. Liston, will be quite satisfied to see 250 people at the dance to be held in collins’ Building on Friday, October 27, in…

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To Cost £6000 Alterations to Local Hotel Magistrate Notes Extensive Local Improvements

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 19 October 1939 · page 2

The P.M., Mr. F. Grugeon, presided at the Licensing Court on Tuesday, when Mr. H. A. Richardson, licensee of the Australian Hotel, Yass, made…

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Rights Under Mortgage Application to Court

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

Mr. E. G. Ellington and Elrington) acting- for Mrs. Clara .Ann Delany, made application to the Court before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M.,…

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Magistrate On Big Families

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 2

During the hearing of a case at Clerkenwell Country Court, England, recently, a woman sued by drapers told Mr. Registrar Friend that she…

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Young Man Charged Alleged False Pretences

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

CROOKWELL: Bail was fixed at £80 when Roy Joseph Priest, 22, of Victoria, appeared at the Crookwell Police Court on…

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Three Men Acquitted Alleged Assault At Camp, Canberra

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

At the Canberra Police Court on Wednesday before Mr. Ryan, P.M., Daniel Robert Grant, Roy Joseph Blewitt and James Thomas Grant…

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Licensing Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 October 1939 · page 2

An application of behalf of William Blakeway for a reduction of the license area to that of the new premises for the wine saloon in…

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Tenant to Quit Court Allows 30 Days

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

"This is a case of victimisation by the Iandlord," declared Leonard Kerr, defendant in a tenancy case heard before the…

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Shop Theft New Technique Adopted

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 25 October 1939 · page 1

What was said by an experienced woman detective to be a new technique in shop thieving was described in a case at…

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Alleged Murder Man's Wife Disappears

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 25 October 1939 · page 4

CHRISTCHURCH (N,Z.), Wednesday: In the Supreme Court to-day the trial has commenced of Arthur James Patience on a charge of the…

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Model of Sewerage Trench in Supreme Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 26 October 1939 · page 2

The ability and handicraft of Mr. A. J. Shearsby was again demonstrated yesterday when a model of the Shaw Street sewerage trench…

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What Is A Trailer? Argument In Maitland Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 October 1939 · page 1

MAITLAND: A legal argument as to what constituted a traller was heard in the West Maitland Court when Francis Newton Harwood, of…

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Guilty of Murder Judge On Flogging

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 27 October 1939 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday: An appeal to the Commonwealth Government to prohibit the sale of murder stories, and bloodthirsty…

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