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

Courts & crime, 1944

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Full Court Decision Upset By High Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 8 June 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday: The Full High Court to-day upheld the appeal of the Commonwealth against the…

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Released on Bond Theft at Garage Evidence of Character

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 8 June 1944 · page 1

An accused, pleading guilty, at the Quarter Sessions of breaking and entering, after evidence was given of…

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Two Men Charged With Two Counts In Respect Of Stolen Goods

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 8 June 1944 · page 2

Two large suitcases filed with clothing and household linen, a small one packed with electro-plated ware, parcels of cutlery and clothing, together with an 8-day clock and many other articles, decorated the Quarter Sessions courtroom at Goulburn yesterday. They were exhibits comprised…

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Police Boxing

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 June 1944 · page 1

Benny Doyle, who reappears in the ring at the Red Cross boxing tournament on Friday next needs to introduction to Goulburn fans. His…

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Woman Sent To Gaol For Neglect Of Her Children ADELAIDE, Thursday

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 15 June 1944 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Thursday sentenced to three months [?]ga yesterday for having neglects The magistrate said she was a…

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Police to Work for Anzac House

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1944 · page 1

A public appeal has been launched to raise £150,000 for the establishment in Sydney of a modern club and amenities centre for…

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Agostini's Supreme Court Trail To Start On

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 15 June 1944 · page 1

MELBOURNE: The trial in Melbourne of Antonio Agostini, 44, of Beach Road, Darling Point, Sydney. waiter, for the murder of his wife, Linda Agostini, will begin in the Victorian Supreme Court on Monday…

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Agostini's Trial Crowds Attend The Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 19 June 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE. Monday: In the hope of gaining admission to the trial of Antonio Agostini, 41, Italian waiter, of Darling…

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Six Months for Stealing

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 June 1944 · page 1

Stanley James Graham was sentenced to six months imprisonment when he pleaded guilty at the Police Court yesterday to a…

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Cause Of Death In Agostini Murder Trial

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 June 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: When the trial of Antonio Agostini, 42, on a charge of having murdered his wife, Linda, Agostini, was resumed to-day, Dr. L. S. Woods, of Albury said that all the injuries to the head of the…

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Divorce Court Turton v. Turton

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 22 June 1944 · page 2

In the Divorce Court at Sydney, before Mr. Justice Edwards, on Tuesday last, Charles Turton, of “Ferndale,” Yass, petitioned for a…

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Sydney Police Searching for Ex-yass Boy

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 22 June 1944 · page 2

Sydney police have been searching for William Jackson, aged 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Jackson, late of Yass…

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Man Arrested in Young Assault Case

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 June 1944 · page 2

YOUNG, Friday: Claude Lionel Flynn, 30, labourer, was arrested yesterday by detectives investigating an attack on a girl aged…

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Cherbourg Attacked All-Out Assault By Americans

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 June 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday: The final all-out American assault against the fortress of Cherbourg began at 2 p.m. to-day, being concentrated against the ring of defences of the heights west and south-west from the city, where…

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Youth Fined £5 for Stealing Petrol

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 June 1944 · page 3

Pleading guilty at the Police Court this morning to it charge of stealing one gallon of petrol, the property of the Goulburn Bus…

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Elisabeth Lambert -- Prolific Young Writer "Stars of the Air" Poet, Dramatist and Court Reported

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 June 1944 · page 7

FIRED-HAIRED, blue-eyed Elisabeth Lambert, a young Sydney journalist who covers the, courts and writes a special column on…

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Police Court

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 29 June 1944 · page 2

The following cases came before Mr. W. S. Bromhead, P.M., at the Murrumburrah Police Court last Thursday:…

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Youth Fined £5 for Stealing Petrol

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 29 June 1944 · page 1

Pleading guilty at the Goulburn Police Court to a charge of stealing one gallon of petrol, the property of the Goulburn Bus…

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Failure To Assist Police Alleged

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 29 June 1944 · page 1

An unusual case was heard at Narrandera Police Court when Winton Thomas Watkins was charged with failing to aid a…

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Agostini Is Sentenced To Six Years Hard Labour

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 30 June 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday: Antonio Agostini was to-day sentenced to six years' hard Labour on a charge of having manslaughtered his wife, Linda Agostini, known as the "Pyjama Girl."…

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