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

Courts & crime, 1941

347 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 18

Murder Charge Alleged Confession

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 5

MUSWELLBROOK, Tuesday: A statement alleged to have been made by Joseph Charnock confessing to having, in a fit of rage, killed Mrs…

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Mining Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 4

When the applicant in a mining issue failed to appear at the Goulburn Mining Wardon's Court to-day his application was refused and his…

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Attempted Murder Of British Minister

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 3

LONDON. Tuesday (A.A.P.): An attempt was made to assassinate the Minister to Bulgaria, who left Sofia…

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Police Drive Gifts Of Stock

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 3

Following the example set in Gunning district, where Sergeant Shipway organised a highly successful stock drive in aid of the…

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Police Court (Before Mr. Grugeon, P.m.) Motor Vehicle Act

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 5

Arthur Bede Hogan was charged with failing to hand in an expired number plate of a motor car. Mr. Astley appeared for defendant…

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Stealing a Jardiniere Two Young Men in Trouble They Were Not Souveniring

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 1

Two men from Young, who blew into the Grand Hotel, Harden, on February 21st last, and indulged…

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Long "Stretch" For Warders Gaol Men Romp Home In Tug-O'-War

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 8

When their hair is old and grey, and perhaps no place at all for it to grow, the Reformatory Rovers will assuredly tell of the day they cleaned…

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Gunning News Police Hospital and Ambulance Sheep Drive

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 4

After a month of canvassing the district for the police effort to assist the District Hospital and St. John of God’s Hospital and the Goulburn and…

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

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 3

Joseph Coddington applied for and was given authority to enter the property of Mr. J. M. Gibson, to mine for gold for 12 months, at 3d…

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Police Boys' Club Annual Meeting Dr. R. D. Heggaton Elected President

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Harden Murrmburrah Police Boys' Club was held in the Mechanics' Institute. Harden, on Friday night last…

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Remanded on Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 3

WELLINGTON (N.S.W.). Monday: A remand for 14 days was granted at the local police court when Hanvey Oliver Potts was charged with the…

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Man Charged Alleged Assault

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 6

At the Queanbeyan Police Court yesterday William Leslie Griffiths was charged with having assaulted Vincent J…

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Stealing Wireless Set

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1941 · page 1

Victor Jack Smith (36) appeared before local Justices at the Murrumburrah Police Court on Thursday last on a charge of having stolen a…

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Stealing Petrol Two Defendants Fined

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 20 March 1941 · page 3

At the Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday, before the P.M., Mr. F. Grugeon, two youths, Cyril Oswald Carroll and John Russell, of…

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Gunning News £147 to Date Progress of Police Sheep Drive

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 20 March 1941 · page 4

The committee of the Police Sheep Drive held its meeting in the Literary Institute on Wednesday night, March 12. Mr. C. J. McLaren…

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Charity Drive by Police Merry-Go-Round To Be Free

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 20 March 1941 · page 8

On Saturday evening next members of the Goulburn Police Force will invite the children in Goulburn to take as many…

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Ten Years' Labourer Sentenced

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 3

Declaring that it was the worst case he had ever cried, Judge Lukin, in the Canberra Supreme Court this week sentenced Samuel Arthur Bray,…

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Man on Murder Charge Wife Found Battered By Axe

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday: Roger Trimmer, 25, was remanded for a week on a charge of the murder of his wife, Frances Chald…

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Alien Nationals Busy Day For Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 2

Goulburn yesterday was "invaded" by the largest influx of alion nationals seen in this city in any one day since the outbreak of war…

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Chinese "Puzzle" Court Calls In Interpreter

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 1

Whether an elderly Chinese should be sworn on the Bible, by blowing out a match, or by breaking a saucer, puzzled the Bathurst Police Court…

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