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

Courts & crime, 1942

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Married Twice Warrant Led To Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 September 1942 · page 3

GLEN INNES, Tuesday: Glen Innes police recently questioned James Edwards, 63, miner, about a 10-year-old warrant issued against a man who had…

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Canteens Sequel High Court Indictment

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 September 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Following the tabling in the House of Representatives on Wednesday of the report of the Canteens Inquiry, the…

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Published by Special Arrangement Copyright a Cruise for Cinderella Chapter Xii. Handed Over to the Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 September 1942 · page 4

"Strange!" said Sir Marcus Mcyerbaum to his wife next morning, when the Australian monarch crawled smoothly under the bridge into Sydney Harbour…

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Boorowa Man's Death Brother Acquitted of Murder

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 17 September 1942 · page 1

At the Albury Quarter Sessions on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice Maxwell and a jury Patrick Joseph Maloney, aged 65 years, was acquitted on a…

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Acquitted on Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 18 September 1942 · page 1

At the Albury Quarter Sessions, before Mr. Justice Maxwell and jury, Patrick Joseph Maloney, aged 65 years, was acquitted on a charge of…

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Boorowa Man's Death Brother Acquitted of Murder

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 September 1942 · page 2

At the Albury Quarter Sessions on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice Maxwell and a jury, Patrick Joseph Maloney, aged 65 years, was…

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Misplaced Sympathy Man With Startling Police Record

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 21 September 1942 · page 2

On Monday last one James Patrick Neale was sentenced to six months gaol for vagrancy. He was also fined £5 for…

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She Preferred Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 September 1942 · page 1

A woman who said it was against her principles to pay a fine for an offence of which she was not guilty, at the Dubbo Court, elected to go gaol for three…

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Boy Calls Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 September 1942 · page 2

ADELAIDE: Complaining about his mother's conduct, with soldiers a 12-year-old Adelaide boy telephoned the police; he told them he often got meals…

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Night Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 September 1942 · page 1

For the first time in history night courts are now the vogue at Cobar. The reason is the curtailment of rail services. On one night last week the…

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Wholesale Murder 207,373 Persons Killed By Huns

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 September 1942 · page 3

LONDON. Monday: The shooting of 116 Frenchmen on the orders of General Stulpuegel. commander of the German Forces of Occupation in…

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Postal Official’s Lapse Convicted of Stealing Sentence Deferred; Accused Bound Over

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 September 1942 · page 2

At the Quarter Sessions on Tuesday, a lad employed at Burrowa Post Office was convicted of stealing £30…

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District Court Claim For Debt

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 24 September 1942 · page 2

In the District Court yesterday on behalf of Charles Rogers and Sons Pty. Ltd., Mr. J. L. Boland, representing Messrs Meyer, and Manfred,…

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Night Court

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 September 1942 · page 6

For the first time in history night courts are now the vogue at Cobar. The reason is the curtailment of rail servies. On one night last week…

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Postal Official's Lapse Convicted of Stealing Sentence Deferred; Accused Bound Over

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 September 1942 · page 5

At the Quarter Sessions on Tuesday, at Yass, a lad employed at Boorowa Post Office was convicted of stealing £30…

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District Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 September 1942 · page 1

Among cases listed for hearing at the Goulburn District Court on Thursday was that of George Robert Bryant v Nathaniel Churchill. Mr. J. B. Muilen…

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Ruling on a Contract In District Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 29 September 1942 · page 3

Points of law in relation to contracts were discussed In the Goulburn District Court on Thursday after voluminous evidence had been given in a claim by…

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Convicted for Stealing

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 1 October 1942 · page 3

At the Yass Quarter Sessions, Victor Alwyne Smith (17) was convicted of stealing £30 at Burrowa on June 2, the property of the Commonwealth…

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Police Must Retire at 60

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 October 1942 · page 4

A suggestion that New South Wales police officers be allowed to remain in the force after the retiring age of 60, to relieve the present…

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Gunning Police Court Straying Stock

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 14 October 1942 · page 6

Before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., at a recent sittings in the Gunning Court of Petty Sessions, Michael James Clarke was charged with having…

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