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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 27 of 31

Fourteen Days' Gaol Stranger on Three Charges Threw Tea on Floor

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 8 November 1939 · page 1

William Morgan (49), when given a cup of tea and two cooked eggs by a Robertson Street housewife on Saturday, threw the…

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Was Almost A Millionaire Lost Russian Fortune Now Serving Gaol Sentence

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 8 November 1939 · page 3

The story of how an English near-millionaire was reduced almost to penury by the Bolshevist revolution in Russia was told at…

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Man Falls Over Cliff Police Fail To Find Body

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 8 November 1939 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Searchlights belonging to the military at South Head were used in an attempt to recover the body of a man who fell…

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Theft Charge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 November 1939 · page 4

CROOKWELL: At the Crookwell Police Court on Wednesday, Cecil Logue, 21, was charged with the theft of an overcoat…

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Alleged Stealing Case Remanded

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 November 1939 · page 2

In the Police Court this morning, Edwin William Gibb was charged with stealing a suitcase, rug and clothing from the Australian Hotel…

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Was Almost A Millionaire Most Russian Fortune Now Serving Gaol Sentence

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 9 November 1939 · page 3

The story of how an English year-millionaire was reduced almost to penury by the Bolshevist [?]evolution in Russia was told at…

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NO. 1 RACKETEER Planning Crimes From Hiding-place New Bid to Smash Murder Gang

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 November 1939 · page 8

So fierce became the war on gangsters that Thomas Dewey, New York’s young militant District Attorney, cut short a holiday to…

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Probate Court Application in Merriman Estate Dispute with Stamps Commissioner

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 November 1939 · page 2

On Monday last applications were made in the Probate Court in Sydney by Mrs. Lilian Hodgkinson and Mrs. Lilian Beatrice Merriman, the…

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FINED £5 Convicted For Stealing

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 November 1939 · page 3

At the Police Court this morning a stranger named Edwin William Gabb, was charged with stealing. Detective-Constable Catt stated that…

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Bound Over On Theft Charge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 13 November 1939 · page 7

CROOKWELL: Cecil Loyne, aged 21, who had been remanded from November 8, was dealt with at the Crookwell Police Court on…

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Shire Clerk to Interview Chief Secretary Request For Police Patrol on Murrumbidgee During Summer Bushfire Fighting Organisation Discussed by Councillors and Deputation From Brigade

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 November 1939 · page 1

Headed by Mr. T. Glover, a deputation from Yass Bush[?] fire Brigade waited on Goodradigbee Shire Council on…

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Small Debts Court Verdict For Grocer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 November 1939 · page 1

A verdict for £4/2/4—the full amount claimed—was entered for the plaintiffs, Gillman and Curtin, Pty., Ltd., in an…

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A Thrilling Court Scene

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 15 November 1939 · page 3

Lee Tracey and one of his clients in a scene from the R.K.O. Radio picture, "The Spellbinder," where Lee Tracey plays the part of an unscrupulo us defender of criminals…

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Street Fracas Ends In Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 November 1939 · page 4

When a scream, heard in Belmore Street at 10.30 pm. last night, was Investigated it was discovered that a woman was…

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Police Chase Car

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 17 November 1939 · page 1

Police officers from Glen Innes and Guyra chased a car which they believed to have been stolen, south from Glen Innes, and arrested the…

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Man Charged with Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 20 November 1939 · page 7

SYDNEY, Monday: Donald Ritchie, about 45, of Beach Road, Edgecliff, lied in the street in Womeran Avenue, Darlinghurst, on Saturday,…

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Fielders Vanish But Appear Before Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 20 November 1939 · page 1

At the Narrandera Police Court a few days ago before Mr. T. A. Doolan P.M., three men were heavily fined for an incident which occurred at the…

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Alleged Production of Long Black Fish Knife In Cafe Brawl Assault Charge Man Convicted

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 20 November 1939 · page 2

Charles William Smith, of Cooma Street, Yass, labourer, was charged at the Police Court this morning with unlawfully…

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Alleged Assault Three Men Before Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 November 1939 · page 7

An alleged fracas at a house in Auburn Street on Saturday October 14, as a result of which a man had to seek treatment for…

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Girl Witness Is Praised by Magistrate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 November 1939 · page 4

At the Goulburn Police Court yesterday, the Police Magistrate, police prosecutor and other officials warmly praised the courage…

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