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

Courts & crime, 1944

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Machine Failed Operators Temporarily In Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: The apparent failure of a salvage company is paper shredding machine has put ration coupons worth 15,000,000 gallons of…

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Murder of Poles Investigation By Russians

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday: A special Soviet commission investigating the murder of Polish was prisoners by Germans has reported that…

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Charged With Stealing Money On Binalong Train

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 2

William John Barry, a stranger, was remanded until the 28th inst, at the Yass Police Court on a charge of stealing a £5 note belong to Lorraine…

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Sports Girl Quest Police Join In

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 1

A well attended meeting was held at the Police Station on Wednesday night last to, decide the manner in which Police and Police…

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Assaulted Yass Police Sergeant Laborer Fined £5

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 3

At the Yass Police Court, Donald Joseph Bell, laborer, 24 years of age, was charged with assaulting Gilbert George Ashton, sergeant of police, at…

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Daring Gunman : 10 Years Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 3

SYDENY, Friday: Raymond Cedric Wiseman, 26, was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by Judge Holt at the Quarter Sessions to-day on a…

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£10 for Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 3

Gordon Rowe took a bicycle form a churchground on a recent Sunday. It was later found in his backyard with a different pair of wheels…

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Prisoners Sentenced Britain Warns Italian Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 February 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: Quoting a dispatch from Rome, the German News-agency says that Italian police have captured and sentenced to death five…

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Five Years Gaol for Offence Against Young Girl Echo of Public Horsewhipping at Harden

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1944 · page 3

At the Young Quarter Sessions on Wednesday, February. 2nd, Arthur Vivian Seabrook-Biggs, f Best street, Wagga, was charged before…

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Unsolved Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY Monday: Police are still endeavouring to locate the the woman who was seen entering Centennial Park on…

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Alleged Attempted Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday: Lieut. William Sheldon Horne, 40 A.M.F., was charged at the City Court to-day with having attempted to…

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Insufficient Lawful Means of Support — Sentenced to 14 Days

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 3

At the Police Court this morning, Nicholas John Joseph McNally, 60, carrier, was charged with that at Yass on the 11th instant, he was a…

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Remanded on Assault Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 2

Sydney Arthur Rawson, 37, appeared at the Police Court yesterday charged with assaulting James McClelland, and causing…

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Railway Man Is Found Guilty Stealing Shoes : Six Months

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 1

Convicted at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday on a charge of stealing one pair of shoes, the property of the Commissioner tor Railways, Michael Patrick O'Grady, head shunter, was sentenced to six month'…

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Court Claim For Money Echo of Theatre Cowra Robbery

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 4

Money alleged In be portion of proceeds from a theft at Cowra was In a dispute at the Batimrst court this week…

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Bail Refused Alleged Attempt At Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 February 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: At the Central Policed Court today, John Joseph O'Connor, 33, and Charles Russell Kelly, 32, wharr…

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COMMITTED Alleged Entering and Stealing From Local Garage

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 2

On a charge of breaking, entering and stealing from a local garage, a Burrinjuck resident was committed for trial…

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Plan for Court to Try Hitler

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 3

LONDON: A plan for the international court to try Hitler and other war criminals has been drawn up by the Belgian judge…

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Aborigines in Court Drunk — Indecent Language — Driving Under lnfluence — Offensive Behaviour

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 2

At the Yass Police Court this morning, Walter Richard Bell, 30, labourer, pleaded guilty to being found drunk 011 the Aborigines’…

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Assault and Robbery Youths Committed For Trial

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 3

When John Alfred Morton a -well-known Gundagai resident, was found in an-unconscious condition in a shed near his…

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