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

Courts & crime, 1939

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Bushfire Menace Discretionary Powers Sought for Safeguarding Holdings Police and Local Government Bodies

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 27 November 1939 · page 1

The danger of bushfires was stressed by Mr. T. J. A. Fitzpatrick at the meeting of the directors of the Wagga Pastures Protection Board…

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Twins Sent To Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 7

At the Goulburn Police Court yesterday George and Harold Philip, 19-year-old twins, were each sentenced to a month's hard…

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Claim for Pension Dismissed By The High Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: In the High Court William Ernest Tanner a Digger, made an application for the recovery of £66 in respect of…

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Police Boys' Club Move To Revive Interest

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 29 November 1939 · page 4

After several months of Inactivity a determined move is to be made to resuscitate the Goulburn Police Boys' Club and to place the…

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Stealing Petrol

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 30 November 1939 · page 4

Frank Watson (27) was charged with stealing two gallons of petrol, the property of Leslie Christopher. Constable Spicer informed the…

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Police Court (Before Local Justices) Trespassing on Railway

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 30 November 1939 · page 4

Roy Lamont (20), Carlyle Johns (22), Harry Goodwin (21), Thomas Frederick Saunders (20), and John Alfred Rowe (23), strangers, were…

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Horse and Rider Charged by Bull

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 30 November 1939 · page 4

When Mr. A. Ladmore was returning to Collingwood Station one day last week after transacting business in Gunning, a bull owned by Mr. J…

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Fair Rents Court Is In Operation

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 1 December 1939 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday: The Fair Rents Act came into operation In New South Wales to-day. Every Court of the Petty Sessions in the State has…

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Neighbours Go to Court Assault Charge Dismissed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 December 1939 · page 1

At the Goulburn Police Court yesterday, Mrs. Margaret Beazley, of Union Street, North Goulburn, failed to substantiate…

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Warden's Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 December 1939 · page 8

An application by John A. Mc Gregor, agent for John Marron, to enter two Bungonia properties to search for kaolin (pipe clay) was…

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Kuhn Goes to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 6 December 1939 · page 5

NEW YORK, Tuesday: Fritz Kuhn, the leader of the German-American Bund, was sentenced to a…

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Doctor Charged Alleged Breaking And Entering

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 6 December 1939 · page 5

GILGANDRA. Wednesday: When Dr. Francis Robert Guinane, 39, of Mendooran, appeared before the Police court on a charge of…

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Double Murder Death Sentence In Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 6 December 1939 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: John William Davis, secretary and accountant was sentenced to death in the Bendigo Supreme Court yesterday…

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Sitting on Edge Woman Saved By Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 6 December 1939 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Police at Watson's Bay received an anonymous telephone call this morning informing them that a woman was sitting…

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Grim Drama of the Snow Country Heroism of the Royal Mounted Police Inspector Fitzgerald's Tragic Journey

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 6 December 1939 · page 6

ONE the most dramatic stories in the annals of the Royal Canadian North West Mounted Police relates to an heroic attempt in 1910 by Inspector Fitzgerald to blaze a new trail through…

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Burglary at I.H.S.

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 7 December 1939 · page 1

At the week-end the Murrumburrah Intermediate High School was broken into and over £5 in money taken from the Headmaster's office. To…

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Raid Made by Police Illegal Betting Is Alleged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 December 1939 · page 4

Two arrests were made yesterday afternoon when visiting police officers raided an Auburn Street business house where…

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Boxing Tournament in Aid of M.-h. PATRIOTic Fund and Local Police Boys' Club

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 7 December 1939 · page 4

On Thursday next, December 14th, at the Mechanics' Institute, Harden, the Police Boys' Club are holding a Boxing and Wrestling Tournament…

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"Technical" Assault

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 5

LONDON: A boatman's wrath at seeing his craft mishandled by holidaymakers was termed "amply justified" by the magistrates in England…

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Troubadours Before Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 13 December 1939 · page 4

After securing a permit to play in the streets, a youthful stranger to Goulburn yesterday allowed his companion to provide…

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