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

Courts & crime, 1942

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Four Charged Taxi-Driver Assaulted

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 6

CANBERRA: Jack Anderson, Lesile Evans, Jean Sternbeck, of Cessnock, and a 17-year-old girl, were at the Canberra Court on a charge: of…

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Trial by World Court War Criminals Declaration Under Consideration

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday: Adoption of a declaration designed to ensure that, after the war, the Axis criminals who perpetrated crimes in violation of…

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Charged with Murder Woman’s Body Found At Good Hope Local Man Arrested

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 1

ON MONDAY AFTERNOON WHAT IS BELIEVED BY THE POLICE TO BE THE BODY OF THE MISSING WOMAN,…

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Taxi-driver Alleges Assault

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 2

While conveying passengers, two girls and men, along the road to Canberra, Mr. Fred Rottenbury, the driver of a taxi, was allegedly struck on…

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Gaol for Conchie Girl

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 4

Britain’s first woman conscientious objector has been imprisoned. The girl refused to pay a fine for falling to obey a direction of the Ministry…

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P.P. BOARD Proceedings By Police Drover to Be Prosecuted

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the Yass P.P. Board was held on Tuesday morning. The Chairman. Dir. T. McAuliffe, was in the chair and there…

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Judge Rutherford Police Court Reference

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 January 1942 · page 2

During the hearing of a summons case at the Goulburn Police Court, brought by an old age pensioner against a young man who was alleged…

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BLACKING-OUT Southern Police Stations

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 January 1942 · page 2

Blacking-out and fortifying the glass of windows in the several police stations of the Southern District will shortly be entered…

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Licensing Court (Before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M.)

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 January 1942 · page 7

At the Boorowa Licensing Court last week, Mr. Sid Smith was granted a license for a publican's booth for the Hospital Gymkhana…

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Alleged Theft Accused Remanded

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 5

Arrested at Tarago by Constable Russell, a young man named Sidney Samuel Hopkins was charged with. having, at Goulburn on January 26…

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District Court Cases

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 2

Goulburn District Court will begin its sittings on Wednesday next February 4. at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Cases listed to be heard…

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Compensation Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 3

His Honour Judge Perdrian will sit as the Worker's Compensation Commission of N.S.W. in the Goulburn Court House next Tuesday morning…

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Parcels to Prisoners of War Rifled? Are Germans Stealing Delicacies What Do You Gather From These Letters Home?

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 2

Are the Germans filching delicacies from parcels sent to prisoners of war? It seems that they are, or what could you make of the following letters written from Germany by prisoners, writes a correspondent in…

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Fined on Three Charges Aborigine Resists Police Damages Constable’s Watch

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 1

Saturday night last proved an expensive evening for an aborigine, who pleaded guilty at the Police Court on Tuesday to…

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District Court, Yass

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 2 February 1942 · page 2

Judge McGhie will preside at the District Court at Yass to-morrow, in place of Judge Stacy, who is at present Lieutenant Colonel commanding…

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Court Martial on Ark Royal

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 3 February 1942 · page 6

LONDON. Monday: A court-martial is being conducted in camera to-day concerning the loss of the 22,000-ton aircraft carrier Ark Royal, which sank…

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Woman Charged with Murder Attends Funeral Of Her Husband SYDNEY, Wednesday

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 3

Catherine Mary Thompson, 41, who has been charged with the murder of her husband, Horace Thompson. 44, has been granted…

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Brutal Assault in City Man Attacked

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Allegedly the victim of a brutal assault by three soldiers in William Street last night, William Coleman, 44, of…

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King's Cross Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 5 February 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: Detective Superintendent Matthews. Chief of the C.I.B., to-day appealed to the public for further assistance in tracing the…

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Bound Over Case At Gunning Alleged Assault

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 February 1942 · page 3

At the Quarter Sessions at Yass on Tuesday, before Judge McGhie, Stanley Ray Rudd was charged with assaulting Nancy Francis Smith and…

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