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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 26 of 31

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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TAXI-RANK Market Street Is Best, Police Think

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 27 October 1939 · page 1

In a letter to the Goulburn City Council, read at last night's meeting, the Police Department recommended that the taxi-rank…

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Alleged Stealing Young Local Man Charged Given Benefit of Doubt

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 30 October 1939 · page 3

At the Police Court this morning, before Messrs. Hickey and Sleeman, J’sP., Roy Leslie March, of Shaw Street. Yass, was charged with…

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Czechs' Big Day 800 In Gaol As Result

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 30 October 1939 · page 5

PRAGUE, Sunday: Four are reported killed an many injured, while 800 were arrested as a result of clashes between…

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Police Boys Club Social

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 30 October 1939 · page 2

The police Boys Club social at Collins’ Building. Yass, last Friday night can be summed up as one of the most successful held in Yass for…

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Gaol with Hard Labour Serious Assaults At Cotter Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 30 October 1939 · page 2

CANBERRA: "These were very serious assaults, involving the lives of the persons attacked. In view of the nature of the assaults I cannot…

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Graphic Evidence Model Of Trench In Supreme Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 30 October 1939 · page 2

The ability and handicraft of Mr. A. J. Shearsby was again demonstrated, says the Yass Tribune-Courler, when a model of the Shaw…

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Three Months' Gaol False Pretences Charge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 October 1939 · page 7

Pleading guilty to two charges of obtaining money and goods under false pretences from business houses in Moss Vale and Bowral, by means…

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Alleged Assault Police Ask For Remand

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 1 November 1939 · page 4

At the Goulburn Police Court this morning James Theodore Cavanagh, 29, John Joseph Kennedy, 37, and John Francis…

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Six Months' Gaol Secured Money By Fraud

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 1 November 1939 · page 4

Although remanded to Crook. Swell from Bowral on a charge of false pretences involving the passing of a valueless cheque,…

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Youth Gets Gaol False Pretences Charge Crookwell Business Man Involved

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 November 1939 · page 4

Pleading guilty to two charges of obtaining money and goods under false pretences from business houses in Moss Vale and…

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Taken by Priest to Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 1 November 1939 · page 1

LONDON: Thirty-three-year old English John Bellinger, of Brighton, hammered at the door of his parish priest In East…

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Amy Johnson in Court Apologises for Bad Language

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 November 1939 · page 6

Amy Johnson, the airwoman, showed her nails to the magistrates at Cowbridge, near Cardiff, after a policeman had…

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More Horse-stealing in Britain Black-Outs Help Raiders

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

Petrol rationing and the consequent demand for horses has brought a revival of the crime of horse-stealing in Britain…

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Fatal Head Injuries Sloane Street Woman's Death Man Charged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 3 November 1939 · page 4

Found lying at the foot of the staircase at premises at 310 Sloane Street yesterday afternoon suffering from…

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Supreme Court of Russia

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 3 November 1939 · page 3

LONDON: A new supreme court of seventy-five members—twenty-nine of them women—was elected several weeks ago by the Supreme…

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Without a License Youth Fined 10/ By Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 6 November 1939 · page 4

For allowing his 17-year-old son to drive a car without a license James Joseph Flood was fined 10/, with 8/ costs, at the Goulburn Police…

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Brothers Sentenced to 4 Years

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

Two brothers were each sentenced at the Sydney Quarter Sessions by Acting-Judge Studdert to four years' Imprisonment…

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Gaol Escapee Appears At Moss Vale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 November 1939 · page 7

Frank McPherson, alias Thomas McMahon, alias Frank Raymond, aged 20, was sentenced to 12 months' hard…

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Debts Court Bill Of Sale On Furniture

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

During an examination in the Small Debts Court yesterday, Harold Fergus Cunningham admitted that furniture over which…

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