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

Courts & crime, 1940

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Charged with Stealing Stranger Before Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 1

At the Goulburn Police Court on Saturday Jack Graham, 46, was charged with stealing and, although the offence was found…

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Material Police Witness Absent

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 4

At the Goulburn Police Court yesterday Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., refused the police application, for the adjournment of a traffic: issue and dismissed the charge. Montague Arthur Hart, of Cassim,…

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Court Sequel To Car Drive

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 4

Pleading guilty at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday to having allowed an unlicensed person to, drive a motor car on…

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Struck Boy "Cold Blooded" Assault

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 20 March 1940 · page 1

"One of the witnesses described it as the most cold-blooded act he had ever seen." Constable Reg Stackpool said this…

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Police Fire On Rioters

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 20 March 1940 · page 4

LAHNORE, Tuesday: The police fired on members of the Khaksar (army of spades), a militant religious organisation, who defied the ban…

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Mrs. L. J. A'court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 20 March 1940 · page 4

Mrs. Louis Jane a'Court of Jerrawa died at the Goulburn Dtistrict. Hospital last night following a lengthy illness. The late Mrs. a'Court, who…

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Children’s Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 2

There was a long sitting of the Children’s Court behind closed doors on Tuesday, when Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M., presided. A case, the hearing…

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Sabotage Is Suspected by Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday: Detectives are certain that the fire at the distributing depot of the Vacuum Oil Company, Ltd., at Yarraville, last…

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OBITUARY Mrs. J. J. A’Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 7

Mrs. Louisa Jane a’Court, of Jerrawa, died at the Goulburn District Hospital last Wednesday night following a lengthy illness. The late…

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To Stand Trial on Serious Charges Sequel to Thuddungra and Tubbul Road Robberies Alleged Admissions in Young Court Cases

The Young Chronicle · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 1

Unless he succeeds with representations which he intimated at Young Police Court on Wednesday that he Would make to have the cases decided earlier, Lyall Aloisius Coulter will stand his trial at the next…

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Aged Man On Theft Charge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 25 March 1940 · page 3

An elderly man, who claimed that he was on his way to Liverpool to seek admission to the Old Men's Home, was arrested in…

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Woman Car Driver Sought by Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 25 March 1940 · page 3

Goulburn police are endeavouring to locate a woman motorist who, it is alleged, knocked down a small boy on the Hume Highway near Moss Vale shortly after noon on Friday. From inquiries so far made it…

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Shooting In Queensland Farmer Charged With Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 March 1940 · page 5

BRISBANE, Tuesday: Gustav August Martin, 52, farmer, has been charged with the murder of his wife and son Walter, aged…

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Woman Driver Advised Police of Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 March 1940 · page 4

It was officially stated this morning that the woman driver involved in an accident near Moss Vale on Friday, when a small boy…

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Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 March 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The trial of Leslie Ernest Kennedy, 27, clerk, who was charged with having murdered Alexander Robert Henry…

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Alleged Theft By Teller

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 March 1940 · page 1

Arthur Maxwell Lumsdaine, 33, bank teller, who was committed for trial from the Manly Police Court yesterday on a charge of…

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Selfish Children Dubbo Magistrate's Comment

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 March 1940 · page 1

Mr. R. G. Cookson, P.M. told a defendant at Dubbo Small Debts Court that he was developing selfishness in his children who…

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Wife's Wounds Husband Before Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 March 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: When Boris Skorchoff, 40, appeared in court to-day charged with having maliciously wounded his wife, Ruby…

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Police Suspect Foul Play

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 March 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: When hauling in it fishing line yesterday in Tarban Creek, Hunter's Hill, a fisherman found on his…

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Carrying Liquor for Sale Without Licence Murringo Youth Charged Police Score Win In Contested Case Defendant Categorically Denies Evidence for Prosecution

The Young Chronicle · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 1

Evidence that sharply conflicted on vital points was given in a case at the Young Police Court, on Wednesday, in which Lindsay Crawford Hall (19) a Murringo farm laborer, was charged with having…

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