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

Courts & crime, 1939

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Missing Articles Recovered By Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 March 1939 · page 5

While a number of Goulburn residents were searching for mushrooms near Yarra on Saturday two Goulburn detectives…

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Adulterated Milk Vendors Before Court

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

At the Goulburn Police Court yesterday, John Charles Williams, Board of Health officer Sand an Inspector under the Pure…

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Gaol For Bombers Sentences At Old Bailey

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: Heavy sentences were imposed at the Old Bailey to-day on members of the Irish Republican Army…

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Peelwood Assault Friction at Dance Defendant to Pay £13153

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 2

As a result of an action for assault brought against him by Gerald Vaughan Lynch, Christopher Frederick Hearne, of…

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McKAY Before the Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Gordon Robert McKay, 43, and James Arthur Talbot, 38, appeared before the Auckland Police Court to-day when…

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Drivers' Licenses Failure to Renew Three in Crookwell Court

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 1

Several defendants were called to answer charges of having failed to renew expired drivers' licenses in the Court of Petty Sessions at…

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Trouble at Dance M.c. Assaulted Crookwell Court Hearing

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 1

Charges that he had assaulted him and had used threatening words to him at a dance at Grabben Gullen on March 11 were…

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Stealing Fruit

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 1

Ronald Wilson (18) and Vincent Alfred Mogford (18) were charged with stealing a number of apples to the value of 16, the property of…

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Police Court Monday, March 27th (Before Local Justices) Breaking and Entering

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 1

Robert Westbrook McDougall, aged 18 years, was charged with breaking and entering the shop of Florence Anne Davison near the Intermediate…

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Police Patrol Damaged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 1

YOUNG: The Police Patrol car recently put into commission in the south-western districts in the interests of road safety, has had its…

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Bones Mystery Wellington Court Crowded

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 5

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday: Hundreds of the public could not gain admission to the Police Court this morning when…

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Heard and Seen Overheard in Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 4

Is your husband working? No, he is ia foreman. Bad for Trade. In Belgium a man who shot a stork…

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Basic Wage for Life Full Court Confirms Damages Accident in Sewerage Trench

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 8

The Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Jordan and Mr. Justice Maxwell gave a majority judgment in the State Full Court this week for a…

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Mittagong Cases Startling Evidence Stealing and Receiving

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 7

Startling evidence of alleged stealing of goods by a person who concealed himself in a railway truck between Darling…

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Poor Box Rifled "No Meaner Offence," Says Magistrate One "Prayed" While Other Preyed

The Burrowa News · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 3

'I could not conceive a meaner offence than this," said Mr. Ryan, P.M., at the Queanbeyan Court on Wednesday last week, when he…

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Good Work by Police Search For Detonators

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 1

Quick work on the part of police officers at Goulburn on Wednesday resulted in the recovery of approximately 43 of…

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Police Patrol Car in Crash Hit From Behind

The Burrowa News · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 10

The Police Patrol car recently put into commission is the South-Western Districts in the interests of road safely, has had…

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The Agents Were Silent Court On Rent Inquiry Adjourns

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: Of 860 estate agents only four answered question aires sent out by Mr. IR C. Cook, assisting Mr. Justice De Baun, in…

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Alleged Assault

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 2

Alfred Merritt (35) was charged in the Court this morning that on March 31 he unlawfully assaulted Kathleen Merritt (a female). The…

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Preserving Court Dignity

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 2

The unexpected happens so often and staid Courts are no exception. It was thought the defendants in a case in which Constable C…

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