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

Courts & crime, 1944

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Fined for Assault Local Residents in Court Husband and Wife Disagree

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 23 October 1944 · page 1

Local residents figured in two court cases on Thursday. A husband was fined for assaulting his wife; and another…

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Transport Services on Strike Bringing Pressure on Arbitration Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 October 1944 · page 3

Sydney: Apart from train, tram and bus services, Sydney was without road transport to-day following the decision of the Transport Workers' Union to hold a 24 hours' stoppage, which is expected to end at midnight to-night…

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£20 Fine for Stealing Tools

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 October 1944 · page 2

Charles Liggins, 27, and Ronald fined £20 at the Police Court Yesterday when they pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a number of motor car tools. On each of three further…

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Car Theft at Gunning

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 26 October 1944 · page 3

A motor car, owned by Mr. Watson, which he had parked in front of premises used by him as a store-room in Waratah St.,…

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Police & Firemen's Ball

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 26 October 1944 · page 3

Nothing is being left undone to ensure the success of the Police and Firemen's Ball, which will be held at the showground pavilion on…

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Assisted Police Ex-Goulburn Man Commended

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 27 October 1944 · page 3

Mr. L. L. Kerr, formerly of Goulburn and now of Parramatta, has received, from the Deputy Police Commissioner a certificate of…

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Beer Missing Theft from Railway Truck

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 31 October 1944 · page 3

When a goods train pulled into the Goulburn yards at 4.30 this morning two young men were seen to leave a truck in hurried…

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Alleged Theft From Railway

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY: A man has been arrested who made his escape from a house shortly before it was blown up at Menai near…

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Smart Work by Gunning Police: Car Recovered

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 5

A car, the property of Mr. Arthur Watson, which was parked in front of his office in Waratah Street, Gunning…

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Drivers Claim £483 From Bus Company Involved Case is Heard in Industrial Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 2

In the Industrial Magistrate's Court yesterday, held before Mr. R. Donaldson P.M., at the Goulburn Court House, Albert Francis Murphy, Clyde Giddy, Raymond Godfrey and William Ryan, all bus drivers. proceeded against John Anar…

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Alleged Railway Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 November 1944 · page 6

John Griffith and Raymond Griffith. young men from Sydney were remanded until Monday next at the Goulburn Police Court…

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Attempt to Break Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 November 1944 · page 1

A daring attempt to break out of Bathurst Gaol was foiled by the vigilance of warders last week…

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Police and Firemen's Ball

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 November 1944 · page 3

The Police and Firemen's Ball which is being held In the Showground Pavilion on Saturday night promises to be an…

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Trail of the Hun Murder in Greece

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 November 1944 · page 3

The B.B.C. states that as the Germans pull out of Greece they are leaving a terrible trail of devastation…

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Colt of No Value N.Z. Court's Decision

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 November 1944 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Friday: The "N.Z. colt" case ended in the Palmerston North Supreme Court last night, when the jury returned a…

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Bus Drivers' Claims Still Go on Third Day of Hearing in Local Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 November 1944 · page 2

The case takes shape., Much Stress has been laid and much effort made to pin and un-pin J. A. Gilbert as the proprietor of the Goulburn Bus Service during the Murphy, wherein hearing of the plaint of Albert Francis…

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Police and Firemen's Ball : Great Success About £150 Raised by Effort For City Orphanages

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 November 1944 · page 2

Approximately £150 was raised by the Police and Firemen's Ball held last Saturday night in the Showground Pavilion in aid of the City Orphanages. This was announced by Sgt…

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Charged with Murder Youth Committed

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 November 1944 · page 6

LITHGOW: William John Foye, 19, a clipper employed at the Steelworks Colliery, Lithgow, was committed for…

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Parents Go to Gaol for Neglect of Children

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 November 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE: Robert Turner, 28 of Candover Street. Geelong West, and his wife, Maise. Victoria Turner, 26 parents of five children aged from six months to seven years were sentenced to three months imprisonment in…

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Robbed of £1000 Woman's Report to Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 November 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY: A report that a man masquerading as a woman assaulted and robbed. Mrs. Maureen Mahoney of…

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