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Southern Highlands · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

42 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 3

House Entered Youths Detained by Police

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 2

Two youths, found asleep by cleaners early on Friday morning, were arrested by Seigt. Follent and Constable Reed, of Bowral Police, in a…

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Const. Arthurson, of Bargo, Wounded by Burglar Over a Hundred Police Scouring District for Assailants Three Men Engaged in Sunday Morning Burglary

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 2

Constable John Arthurson, of Bargo, was shot at and seriously injured by an escaping burglar on Sunday morning…

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Bargo Shooting Two Men Charged

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 2

Following upon the arrest of two men near Warwick Farm racecourse, early on Monday morning, on charges of complicity with the shooting of…

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Bowral Court Street Betting

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 2

Sergt. Follent and Const. Reed, of Bowral Police, arrested a man in the street at Bowral on Wednesday. On Thursday, Frederick Gordon Walker,…

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Cheap Labor Postmaster-general Charged

The Southern Mail · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 2

Practices usually associated with sweating concerns in the big cities were charged against the Postmaster General's Department by Aid. W…

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Military Court-martial

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 1

Most civilians arc probably of opinion that there is only one sort, of court-martial by which a soldier on the active list can be…

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Police Court Two Men Convicted

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 2

Following on an arrest by Sergt. Follent and Const. McLellan, of Bow-Police, a young man was charged at Bowral Police Court with false…

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Police on Duty Night of Recent Fire

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 2

Following on complaints made regrading noisy [?] at the Bowral Band recitals, Bowral Police were on duty in Corbett Gardens on the night…

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False Pretences Alleged Army Captain Charged and Acquitted

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 March 1935 · page 4

Photographs of a fine country residence, with gardens tennis courts, and beautiful rose arches, were exhibited…

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Extended Bowral Police District

The Southern Mail · Friday 8 March 1935 · page 3

Bowral Police District has been extended to include an area bounded on the south by the Wingecarribee River and on the north by the Wollondilly…

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Betting Cases Reported High Court Decision

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 12 March 1935 · page 3

Al Mittagong Police Court on Thursday. Henry Charles Hill, of Mittagong, was charged before Mr. Forrest, P.M., with betting on the lie…

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Moss Vale Police Court

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 3

At the Moss Vale Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Forrest, P.M., Charles Greenland was charged with indecent conduct at the Moss Vale…

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Sentenced to Death Attempted Murder of Constable Arthurson

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 2

At the Central Criminal Court. Sydney, on Thursday, James Lucas aged 46. was found guilty of feloniously wounding Constable John…

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Stealing Charge Youth Found Guilty

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 2

At Bowral Police Court on Wednesday, before Messrs. J. Stokes and J. J. Hackett, Js.P., a Bowral youth was charged with stealing seven…

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Tales of the Old Days and Other Australianities. Order in the Court!

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 6

It happened out in the Riverina many year? ago. Two Chinese hail pot into grips over something or other, and in the resultant serimmage…

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Stealing Timber Man Caught on Catchment Area

The Southern Mail · Friday 29 March 1935 · page 2

At Robertson Police Court, on Tuesday, before Messrs. L. Jones and Massey Westropp, Js.P., Clarence James Lowe, of Wollongong, was…

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Gaol for Trespass Meant As a Kindness Unemployed on the Railways

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 March 1935 · page 3

In imposing a fine of 20s each, in default two days' imprisonment, a Bench of local justices at Casino told 12 men who were charged with…

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Moss Vale Police Court. Tuesday, 2Nd April (Before Mr. Forrest, P.m.) "We Are Seven "

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 April 1935 · page 2

Seven defendants were charged with being unlawfully on licensed premises at Sutton Forest on the night of 15th February. All pleaded…

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Bowral Court Damages for Motor Collision

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 2

Mr. Forrest, P.M., presided at Bowral Court on Wednesday last. Following a collision between two cars on the Kangaloon Road in…

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15,000 Evictions In Three Years Police Figures Support Canon Hammonds Claim

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 April 1935 · page 3

Canon R. B. S. Hammond, who in March last was reluctantly forced to contradict a statement that evictions were practically non-existent…

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