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

Courts & crime, 1939

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Prison for Drug Addict Sent To Gaol For Three Months

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 13 December 1939 · page 5

GILGANDRA, Wednesday: At the Gilgandra Police Court yesterday, Doctor Francis Robert Guinane, 39, medical practitioner, was sentenced…

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Duck Shooters Before Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 13 December 1939 · page 3

Two prominent Leeton citizens, John Brady, mentioned in evidence as chairman of the Rice marketing Board for N.S.W., and William James…

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Tennis Crookwell Club Notes Court Captains for

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 December 1939 · page 5

The court captains for Saturday next will be Messrs. F. Foster and A. Windsor. It will be of great assistance to the…

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Police Court (Before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M.)

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 14 December 1939 · page 1

James Leonard Brown was summoned by the Young P.P. Board with failing to destroy rabbits. At the request, of the Stock Inspector the case…

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Sentenced for Murder Outcome Of I.R.A. Explosion

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 15 December 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday: For the first time since the I.R.A began its outrages terrorists have been sentenced to death. Peter Barnes, 32,…

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Mean Theft Stole Dancing Partner's Bag

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 December 1939 · page 4

"It is very despicable offence," declared a police witness when giving evidence at the Goulburn Police Court…

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Changed His Mind Charged With Fast Driving

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 December 1939 · page 1

At the Goulburn Police Court yesterday John Benjamin Neeld, of Oswald Lane, Darlinghurst, was fined 30/, with 8/…

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No Tribunal for Miners Arbitration Court Available

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 December 1939 · page 8

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, announced last night that the Federal Cabinet had, rejected…

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Sentenced to Death Shooting In A Sydney Flat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 20 December 1939 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday: John Thomas Myers, 38, seaman, was yesterday sentenced to death for the murder of Robert James Rowllnson…

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Alleged Assault Charges Dismissed Gundaroo Brawl

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 21 December 1939 · page 5

After three men from Gundaroo had aired a small town brawl in the Court of Petty Sections on Tuesday, before Mr. F…

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Small Debts Court Issues

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 December 1939 · page 1

At the Goulburn Small Debts Court on Monday Frederick Bell of East Goulburn, was granted a Moratorium relief in respect to a…

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Miners' Threat "Confusion" In Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 December 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: Speeches at a conference of the combined mining unions yesterday indicated that the mining…

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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 21 December 1939 · page 5

The Boxing Tournament staged by the M.-H. Police Boys' Club in the Mechanics' Institute, Harden, last Thursday night, in aid of that club…

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Frogmore Police Court Wednesday, 20th DECEMBER. (Before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M.)

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 7

Alfred Edgar Brenton, aged 73 years, was charged at the Frogmore Police Court that he did, at the Phoenix Wolfram Mine, near…

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Prison for Drug Addict Sent to Gaol for Three Months

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 1

GILGANDRA: At the Gilgandra Police Courts Dr. Francis Robert Guinane (39), medical practitioner, was sentenced to three months'…

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Man Shot Dead on Roads Strange Murder In Victoria

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday: Alfred Thomas, 35, of E[?]urke Street, city was found shot dead late on Wednesday night on the Boronia Road, halt…

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Crookwell Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 December 1939 · page 1

CROOKWELL: As the cases listed for the monthly sitting of the Crookwell Police Court were only of a minor nature, the…

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Engineer Charged Alleged False Declaration

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 December 1939 · page 1

Charged under the commonwealth Statutory Declaration Act on two counts of making a false statement in a…

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Paid Up in Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 December 1939 · page 3

If you are a gangster in the United States you can sometimes get away with murder; but you can never get away with income-tax frauds…

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Victory for Hose Mutiny In Irish Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 December 1939 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday: (A.A.P.): Mutiny broke out in the County Goal at Londonderry, where 60 Irish Republican suspects are interned for the…

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