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

Courts & crime, 1939

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Police Change Inspector Lavelle Goes To Kogarah

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

Inspector A. J a[?] who has been in charge of the Goulburn Police Station for nearly two years past, has been…

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MR. M. J. RYAN New Police Magistrate Court Welcome

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 1

Goulburn's new Police Magistrate, Mr. M. J. Ryan, was extended a cordial welcome by the police, legal profession and…

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Astounding Revelations At Bow St. Police Court Of Terrorist Plot Panic to Be Created Incendiarism And Bombs

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Monday: Astounding revelations of a terrorist plot, involving incendiarism…

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Embezzlement Charge in Court Defendant Pleads Guilty: Sentence Suspended First Offender

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 1

Pleading guilty at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday to the fraudulent embezzlement of £15/18/7½, Alfred Smith was…

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Shop Theft Man Is Given 18 Months' Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 1

At the Goulburn Quarter Sessions yesterday morning Robert Henry Johnston 18, was sentenced to 18 months' hard labour…

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Bombing Outrages Police Still Searching

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: Police activity in connection with bomb cutrages continues unabated throughout London…

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District Court Cases Quickly Settled

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 1

After a lengthy distnute in which a district grazier unsuccessfully claimed £200 from the Goulburn Stock lnspector, Mr…

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Parking Anomaly Extinguishing Tail Lights Poser for Police

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

The announcement published on Monday that following the introduction of nose-in parking the local police would insist on tail lights on…

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Man Charged with Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: At the Redfern Police Court to-day, Timothy Ryan, 44, a labourer, was remanded until February 17 on a charge of having…

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Sent to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Adolf Mesak, 46, a rigger, who was said to have an unenviable record, was sentenced to 21…

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Alleged Theft of Goods Two Track Men Charged with Stealing From Local Store (Before Messrs. R. F. Kemp and L. G, O'Hars, Js.P.)

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 7

At the local Police Court on Wednesday afternoon, two strangers—track men—were charged with steal two clocks and a bottle of pickles…

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Police Find Explosives in Old Bag

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 5

Explosives, in an old potato bag, were found by the Chatswood police last week near the Kg Tree Bridge, Lane Cove…

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Woolcott-Forbes Case Orange Man Claims £3750 in Supreme Court Writ

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Friday: A writ was to-day taken out in Supreme Court on behalf of Allan Doolette Anderson, of Orange, claiming…

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Compensation Claim Dr. Pockley v Mulwaree Shire Council Arbitration by Court Evidence Is Taken In Open Air On Estate By Judge Hill

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 1

From the viewpoint of the length of time absorved and the importance of the issues involved, the arbitration "reference" in which Dr. F. G. A. Pockley, of "Pylara" Station,…

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Policeman Charged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: At the Wollon-gong Police Court this morning three policemen were charged in connection with the disturbance during the…

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Wireless Car for Goulburn Highway Safety Move By Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 4

It was announced this morning that in the near future a specially equipped utility truck, manned by two police officers,…

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Police Court (Before Mr Grugeon, P.m.) Stealing Fruit

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 1

Robert. Westbrook McDougall and Vincent Alfred Mogford were charged with stealing a quantity of fruit from the cart of Wong Lee at…

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Nicholas Kosseris Bankrupt Sent to Gaol

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 2

In the Federal Bankruptcy Court in Sydney, Nicholas Kosseris, a cafe proprietor, formerly of Yass, was sentenced to two months’…

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Highway Safety Wireless Car for Police District

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 7

It was announced this week that in the near future a specially equipped utility truck, manned by two police officers, will be placed on the…

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Mining Warden's Court Before Mr. Grugeon, P.M., Warden)

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 1

John Francis Cashman applied for an authority to enter the property of the Estate of the late W. C. H. Roberts to mine for gold: area. 4 acres…

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