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

Courts & crime, 1942

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Goat's Attack Charged Ambulance

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 June 1942 · page 2

A recent visit by a Goulburn Ambulance officer to Curraweela, in the Taralga district, evidently failed to meet with…

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Month's Gaol Military Defaulter

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 29 June 1942 · page 3

Failure to enrol for military service proved expensive for Arthur Charles Gough, 20, at the Goulburn Police Court this morning, when he was…

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Blew Kisses to Girls Man Before Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 29 June 1942 · page 3

A plea of not guilty was entered by Raymond John Homann, 42, when he appeared at the Goulburn Police Court this morning to answer a…

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Indecent Assault

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 June 1942 · page 3

SYNDEY, Tuesday: Sentencing a sex offender to four years' imprisonment. Mr. Justice Davidson. In the Central Criminal Court, said the accused should…

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Gaol for Conspirators

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 June 1942 · page 3

PERTH, Tuesday: Laurence Frederick Bullock and Charles Leonard Williams, found guilty by a jury last Monday week of having conspired to assist the public…

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Musician in Trouble Allegations By Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 June 1942 · page 2

When the hearing of a charge against Raymond John Homann. 42, musician, of having behaved offensively in Auburn Street was…

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Assaults on Police Newcastle Affrays

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 July 1942 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday: Expressing his determination to put down, If possible, assaults on the police, Mr. Carr-Boyd, S.M. in the…

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Five Years for Assault

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 July 1942 · page 1

NEWCASTLE. Thursday: Ronald James Hughes. 24, in the Quarter Sessions, pleaded guilty to assaulting and robbing Barbara Dawn Ell, at…

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Indecent Assault in Orchard Judge Deplores Increasing Number of Cases

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1942 · page 3

"I have previously called attention to the increasingly great number of youths who are appearing before me and other Judges on charges of this sort," declared Judge Shortland in Cowra Quarter Sessions…

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"Murmburrah-Harden Police Boys' Club Annual Meeting

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1942 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Murrumburrah—Harden Police Boys' Club was held in the Murrumburrah School of Arts on…

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Chinese in Court " He Swear ! Cried Defendant

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1942 · page 3

By the sound of the proceedings, it could have been Chungking. But it was N.S.W. The language was colorful and…

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Police Stood by a Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 July 1942 · page 3

BATHURST, Friday: For the third time this week, a squad of police was summoned to Bathurst Gaol yesterday. They stood by for some time as a…

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Annivesary of Murder Japanese Look Back

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 July 1942 · page 3

CHUNGKING. Thursday: The Japanese Imperial Headquarters' spokesman, commenting on the fifth anniversary of hostilities in China…

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Police Ball for Prisoners of War Fund

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 July 1942 · page 2

The Police of Boorowa and district are organising a Grand Ball, in aid of the Prisoners of War Fund. This will take place on Friday, 21st…

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Sent To Gaol Elderly Vagrant

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 July 1942 · page 3

Three months' hard labour was the sentence, imposed on William. James Lamb 66, when he appeared before , Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M.,…

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Bathurst Gaol Rioters Punished

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 July 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Twelve prisoners who took part in the Bathurst Gaol disturbances last week have been sentenced by the visiting justice…

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Debts Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 July 1942 · page 3

At the Goulburn Small Debts Court Caroline Mary Martin, of 46 Auburn Streets, was awarded £18/1/6 arising from a claim against William Wells,…

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Curretnt Comment Theft...?

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1942 · page 2

Thus the Parkes "Champion Post": "It is an old saw that 'the law is a h'ass.' and at times we…

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Alleged Stealing Defendants Remanded

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 July 1942 · page 1

Gerard Augustus Sayer and Newton Scott Williams, musicians, were further remanded at the Police Court last Tuesday, to the 14th instant, to…

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Police Court (Before Mr. Grugeon, P.m.) Military Exemption

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1942 · page 4

Malcolm Cross applied for exemption from service in the Defence Force on the grounds of hardship. Evidence regarding his disability…

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