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

Courts & crime, 1942

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Trees Cut Down Police to Investigate Shire Council Decision

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 19 November 1942 · page 1

Following a report from the Foreman, the Goodradigbee Shire Council decided to place the matter of removal of…

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Fracas on Melbourne Express Train Military Police Mauled by Soldiers

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 19 November 1942 · page 2

Whilst escorting two men to gaol on the Melbourne express train, which arrived at Harden at 2 a.m. on Tuesday morning…

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Month for Theft of Motor Tyres

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 1

In sentencing Gordon Ernest Sinclair to one month's imprisonment yesterday Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., said to defendant: "If you were not a…

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Police and Enlistment

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 November 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The dispute between the police authorities and policemen regarding their enlistment has taken another step when…

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Shot a German Acquitted Of Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 25 November 1942 · page 2

BROKEN HILL, Wednesday: John Campbell Condon was acquitted at his re-trial in the Supreme Court on a charge of having murdered Frank Evers,…

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Wholesale Murder 24,000 Jews Shot

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 25 November 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: The Jews of Europe are no longer being persecuted, but are being systematically exterminated…

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Wholesale Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 26 November 1942 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Wednesday: Dr. Stephen Wise, chairman of the World Jewish Congress, in a statement to-day, said he had learned from sources…

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Gunning Charges of Stealing Defendant Discharged on Recognizance

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 26 November 1942 · page 4

At the Gunning Court on Tuesday, before Mr. M. Ryan, P.M., Ernest Hector Apps (24) was charged with on or about October…

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Police to Enforce New Bushfire Order Ban on Burning—off in Summer

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 November 1942 · page 6

A warning that Police were being instructed to enforce rigidly the National Security Order relating to the control of…

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Murder Charge Against U.S. Soldiers

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 30 November 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Although there is no sign of a decision yet regarding the trial of the American soldiers committed to trial on a murder…

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Court Judgment Likely to Be Used

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 30 November 1942 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday: The Commonwealth Government will probably direct the attention of the Constitutional Convention to the High court judgment last…

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Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 3 December 1942 · page 2

CANBERRA. Wednesday: Mrs. Rose Florence Mary, 39, of Westlake, was found not guilty by a Supreme Court jury on the grounds of insanity, of a…

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BUSHFIRES Police to Act Ban on Burning Off

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

Goodradigbee Shire Council has expressed concern regarding the matter of burning off and when it is permissible…

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Ten Years For Bush Assault

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 December 1942 · page 1

At the Sydney Quarter Sessions, Cliff Francis Merritt, 23, partly an aborigine, was sentenced to 10 years’ penal servi…

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Soldier Before Court Charge Of Illegally Using Car

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 7 December 1942 · page 3

Pte. Edward Thomas Nolan appeared before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M, at the Goulburn Police Court this morning on a charge of illegally using…

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Militiaman Charged with Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 December 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: A militiaman, charged with having murdered his wife and baby son, told police he had killed his wife because she had killed…

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Intended to Return Goods But the Police Got in First

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 9 December 1942 · page 3

Ernest Hector Apps, 24, was called upon to answer a number of charges of stealing at last sittings of the Gunning Court of Petty…

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Teacher Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 10 December 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: At the Quarter Sessions, Cedric Selwyn Bird, 27, a school teacher, pleaded guilty to four charges of offences against girl…

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Theft of Utility Truck

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 10 December 1942 · page 2

On Saturday night last a utility truck was stolen from Yass Street, Gunning, where Mr. W. Emery, of “Collingwood,” Gunning, had left it…

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18 Months' Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 December 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Dr. Allen Downes, Leslie Thomas Day and Walter Nelmes were to-day sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for…

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