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

Courts & crime, 1944

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Alleged Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 4 May 1944 · page 3

LISMORE, Thursday: After the body of Richard Gwynne, pensioner, was found under a bridge at South Lismore on…

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No Supreme Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 4 May 1944 · page 1

The sittings of the Supreme Court set down to be held at Goulburn on Thursday, May 9, have been rescinded…

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Court in Ambulance

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 5 May 1944 · page 1

At Kogarah a court was held in an ambulance waggon while Mr. Meagher, S.M., remanded until May 16 Frederick Jackson. 24,…

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Theft From Hotel Expensive Mistake

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 1

William James Remington, 43, was charged at the Police Court on Monday with stealing an- overcoat coat and gloves to the value of…

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School Master Calls in the Police

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 2

Mr. Astle, headmaster of Crookwell Central School, has nitified the Crookwell Shire Council that it is his intention to call in the police to…

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Police and Firemen's Race Club

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 1

A meeting of the Police and Firemen's Race. Committee was held in the Council Chambers, on Monday night. Present: Messrs J. F. Bourke…

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BY-ELECTION Court Cases DISMISSED

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 22 May 1944 · page 1

Cases arising out of alleged proceedings at the Municipal By-election on October 16 last, which had aroused local…

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Long Chase Police Have Busy Day At Gundagai

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 May 1944 · page 2

Should there, be a cross country championship at next month's Gundagai gymkhana certainties for the event…

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Cross Country Chase Police Have Five Mile Footrace

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 2

Two Gundagai police officers, Sergeant J. R. Brindle and Constable C. Fisher, put up a remarkable performance on…

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Twice Sentenced

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 May 1944 · page 2

THEODOR BROCH, the Mayor of Narvik, now serving as a lieutenant in the Norwegian Army, talking at the British…

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Attempted Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 29 May 1944 · page 3

While lying in a cot at the home of his grandparents near Bourke. Michael Kerry St. Clair (42 months) narrowly escaped death…

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Husband Charged with Stabbing Wife

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 May 1944 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday: Jessie Waters, 20, married was fatally stabbed at [?]pswich last night. It was alleged that the woman was…

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Endeavour To Recover Goods Fails At Goulburn Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 May 1944 · page 1

Allan Fletcher failed in an action in the Small Debts Court yesterday by which be sought to recover articles of furniture or the value thereof to the sum of £50, from R. D. Gray and Sons…

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Sentenced to Death for Treason Pucheu's Speech To Judges Before Decision

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 5

Puched, ex-Vichy Minister of the Interior, and first collaborationist with the Germans to be sentenced to death for treason, appealed against the verdict, lost it, and was shot…

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Ruling On Police Rights In Summary Jurisdiction

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 1

A decision upsetting State-wide police procedure in bringing persons under summary jurisdiction was made by Mr. W. S. Bromhead, S.M., at Bathurst Police Court. The ruling was given after the…

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Important Decision Police Rights in Summary Jurisdiction

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 5 June 1944 · page 1

A decision upsetting State-wide police procedure in bringing persons under summary jurisdiction was made by Mr. W. S…

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Another Theft Of Coupons

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 June 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The second largest, theft of clothing coupons and ration books since Saturday occurred last night, when a large…

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"On Principle" Orchardist Goes To Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 June 1944 · page 3

BATHURST, Tuesday: "As a matter of principle," Thomas Patterson, well-known Bathurst orchardist, has gone to gaol for…

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Appeal By Two Defendants Against Sentence For Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 7 June 1944 · page 2

An appeal by Melville Cavanagh Aubrey and Richard John Roberts against the severity of their sentences when they were convicted at the Goulburn Police Court on a charge of stealing petrol. took a somewhat dramatic turn at the Quarter Sessions yesterday…

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Orchardist Goes To Gaol “On Principle”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 8 June 1944 · page 3

“As a matter of principle,” Thomas Patterson, well-known Bathurst orchardist, went to gaol for three days…

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