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

Courts & crime, 1942

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District Court Case

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 February 1942 · page 2

When the case, Williamson Brothers, trading as “Garage 83,” v. Meyr, was called at the District Court last Tuesday, there was no appearance of…

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District Court Clearance Of Lists

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 5 February 1942 · page 2

When the District Court, before His Honour Judge McGhie, sat in the Goulburn Courthouse yesterday afternoon, several of the cases set down…

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Young Licensing Court Two Cases From Harden

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 5 February 1942 · page 4

Applications for orders to carry out material alterations to two Harden Hotels were made in the Young Licensing Court on Thursday last…

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Sequel to Brawl Coloured Man In Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 5 February 1942 · page 5

Harrison Egan, a tall, straight-built young follow of 22 years, who was described as a three-quarter-caste aborigine, was brought before…

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Good Hope Tragedy Coroner’s Finding Davis Committed for Trial for Murder

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 February 1942 · page 2

The Coroner’s inquest concluded at 3.45 o’clock this afternoon, when the following finding was given:— The deceased on the 1st November,…

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Car and Lorry in Crash Question For District Court Which Was Stationary?

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 5 February 1942 · page 2

Questions of paces and times of approaching vehicles on the Hume Highway were discussed in the District Court yesterday during the hearing of a claim for damages to a motor car. The points were remindful to some listeners of the posers…

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Keep Dust Off Your Clothes It Can Lead to Arrest If You Err Criminologists' Work At Hendon Police Laboratory

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 5 February 1942 · page 2

In a police laboratory at Hendon (Eng.) a staff of criminologists,. led by their director of scientific investigation, Dr. James…

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Coroner's Finding Davis Committed for Trial for Murder

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 February 1942 · page 7

The Coroner's inquest concluded at 3.45 p.m. on Thursday, when the following finding was given:—The deceased on the 1st…

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Murder Finding at Yass Inquest. Fourteen Witnesses Examined

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 February 1942 · page 7

THE TENSE AND WIDESPREAD INTEREST AROUSED BY THE DISCOVERY OF THE REMAINS OP IDA MAY FAULDER (36) BY POLICE SEARCHERS AT GOOD HOPE, 12 MILES FROM YASS. ON JANUARY 12 LAST, WAS REFLECTED IN THE…

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Lawyers and Police Judge On Evidence

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 February 1942 · page 2

Goulburn members of the police force who chanced to be in the. Quarter Sessions Court yesterday afternoon were obviously gratified by…

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Weighbridge Collapses District Court Inquires Into Cause

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 February 1942 · page 2

His Honour Judge McGhie, who on the previous day had dealt with an action involving distances and speeds, was yesterday afternoon in the District Court at Goulburn presented with another knotty problem, this time concerned with tares…

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Repossessed Car Magistrate Orders Its Return

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 9 February 1942 · page 5

At the Wagga Police Court, before Mr. Doolan, P.M., Alexander Leslie Baker, of Wagga, proceeded against Clara Booth, Narandera Road, Wagga,…

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Theft From School Militia Youths In Trouble

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 9 February 1942 · page 6

Two youths in militia uniform appeared in the dock of the Quarter Sessions Court at Goulburn on Friday before His Honour Judge. Mc…

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Police and War Where Does Sentry's Duty End?

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 9 February 1942 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: Neither the military authorities nor the police have yet issued official statements on the controversy which has…

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Court Martial Case From Narellan

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 February 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY Tuesday: William Mc Leod charged with four offences arising out of incidents at the Narellan camp last month, told the…

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Alleged Assault Committed For Trial

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 1

John Edward Mullins, Araluen, was charged, at the Araluen police Court on Friday with assaulting Gladys May Ehiers on January, 15…

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Part of Police Assisting Wardens

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 2

It was learned at Goulburn police headquarters to-day that, while the emer responsibility for supervising the preparations for the black out…

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Body Found Floating In Harbour Victim of Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The body of a one-legged man, bound with wire and wrapped in a shroud of white sheeting, was…

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Identification of Body Sydney Murder Victim

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 12 February 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Bound in sheeting and weighted with four pieces of iron, the body of William Jackson or Anstruther Pringle Boyle,…

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Police on Duty Satisfied With Test

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 12 February 1942 · page 2

Superintendent Duckworth, in charge of the southern police district, when interviewed this morning, stated that, he regarded the black-out of…

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