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

Courts & crime, 1944

255 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 13

Six Months For Stealing A Suitcase

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 3

Pleading guilty at the Police Court this morning to a charge of stealing a suit-case, containing clothing and other articles from an…

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Court Sequel to Dalton Fracas

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 July 1944 · page 5

Roy Smith and V. Pye appeared before Mr. Ryan, P.M., at the Gunning Police Court on Tuesday, June 27,…

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Hospital Theft Man Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 6 July 1944 · page 3

At the Quarter Sessions held in Goulburn last September, Mervyn Keith Evans faced an application by the Clerk of the Peace…

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Police Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 July 1944 · page 1

Before Mr. Ryan, P.M., at the Gunning Police Court, on Tuesday, June 27, J. A. Medway proceeded against Roy Smith and V. Pye for…

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Great Success Police and Ambulance Ball Distinguished Visitors

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 July 1944 · page 1

The Police and Ambulance Ball, held in the Memorial Hall on Thursday night last, was a great success, socially…

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Escape From Gaol Just Blew Hole In The Wall

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 July 1944 · page 3

AUCKLAND, N.Z., Tuesday in a sensational escape yesterday from the Auckland Gaol Herbert Maxfield 34: and John…

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Court Ruled He Was A Vagrant

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 July 1944 · page 3

Charged at the Police Court yesterday with vagrancy, Laurie Henry Henkle, who pleaded not guilty because he considered an unemployed man should not be classed as a vagrant, was, convicted and sentenced to 14…

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Alleged Murder By Mother

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 July 1944 · page 3

MUNGINDI: May Richardson, £3, half-caste aboriginal, has been charged with the murder of her two-year-old son Raynold,…

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Flying Bomb Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 14 July 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday: During a raid by flying bombs 72 people including mothers and children were killed when a bomb fell near…

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Murder an Error Huns Explain

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 14 July 1944 · page 3

According to Algiers Radio, the Germans carried out a reprisal on a French village, wiping our 800 only seven persons…

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17-Year-old Faces Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 14 July 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY: A seventeen-year-old Redfern youth was to-day arrested and charged with the murder of S. E. Sebastino D'Andrea. 45,…

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Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 17 July 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY: A remand until July 20 was granted at the Liverpool Court to-day when Victor Pressick, 18, labourer, of…

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Many Appeals by Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 17 July 1944 · page 2

About 170 appeals have been lodged by New South Wales, police officers against the last list of police promotions…

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£20 For Stealing Bag Of Pollard From Goods Shed

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 18 July 1944 · page 2

Convicted at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday on a charge of stealing one bag of pollard, value 5/6, the property of the Railway Commissioners, Edward Charles Keighbran, a porter,' employed at the Railway Goods Shed,…

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From Papers to Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 19 July 1944 · page 2

On a visit to Goulburn is First Class Constable L. Waldock.. In 1907 he carried papers for this Journal. He is on holidays and…

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Tyre Stealing

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 20 July 1944 · page 6

A record ourbreak of tyre stealing occurred in Lithgow during the week-end when spare wheels were stolen from six cars and an…

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£20 for Stealing Bag of Pollard

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 20 July 1944 · page 3

Convicted at the Goulburn Police Court on a charge of stealing one bag of pollard, value 5/6, the property of the Railway…

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Sydney Newsletter Husband Seeks Court's Protection

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 26 July 1944 · page 3

Paul Lewis has asked Adelaide Police Court for protection and it has been granted. He has a six feet, 18 stone wife, whom he charged with…

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Magistrate's Visit Protracted Sitting

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 27 July 1944 · page 2

Mr. R. Donaldson, Police Magistrate, had a protracted sitting on his usual monthly visit to Yass last week. His time was almost wholly…

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SUPT. W. H. DUDLEY Charge Of Goulburn Police District

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 28 July 1944 · page 3

Vacant for six months since the retirement of Superintendent Kennedy, the position of Superintendent in charge of the…

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