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

Courts & crime, 1945

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Murder Germans and Americans Shocking Story Released

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday: Results of the investigation into the cold-blooded shooting of 11 Americans taken prisoner…

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New Assault on West Front Patton Drives at Runstedt's Southern Flank

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Monday: On the Western Front, General Patton has launched a new offensive against the southern flank of von Runstedt's salient He has struck midway between Bastogne and St. Ivert. There are no further details except that this is a large scale movement in which heavy armour and infantry…

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Alleged Stealing

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 1

Brian Bruce. Yates 18 appeared at the Goulburn Police, Court this morning charged with stealing a suitcase, two overcoats, and…

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Six Months for Youth for Stealing Clothing

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 3

Brian Bruce Yates, 18. was sentenced to six months' hard labour at the Goulburn Police Court this morning. He pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing two overcoats, a suit…

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Stuart Jones Shooting Four Men Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY: Four men were charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having shot at Dr. Reginald Stuart…

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Goulburn Man Victim of Sydney Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 2

Maurice Joseph Hannigan, 68, gunsmith, who was battered to death in his King Street, Sydney, shop early…

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Evidence in Stuart Jones Attempted Murder Trial

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Fragments of a £10 note found in a pocket of Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones's cost matched a torn note found later…

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Boxing Young v. Murrumburrah-harden Police Boys Thrills Galore in Return Bouts

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 3

There was a good attendance at Mechanics' Institute, Harden, when the Young Police Boys paid a return visit to engage the members of the…

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Sydney Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Detectives have now established the fact that the murderer of Morris Joseph Hannigan was in the shop in King Street…

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From Everywhere Bicycle Stealing Mania

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 2

Since the New Year an epidemic of bicycle stealing has appeared in Goulburn. It may be due to school holidays, and the desire of careless…

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Quiet Year for Police in Southern District

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 1

On the whole, police matters within the Southern District have been most satisfactory during the past year, states the annual report submitted to the Chief Commissioner of Police by Superintendent W. Didley. Members of the force had proved…

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Man Is Charged at Orange With Two Recent Murders

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 1

ORANGE: Cyril Norman 12 was charged in the Orange Police Court with having murdered Constable Eris George Bailey. 38, at Blayney. last Friday, and with having murdered Maurice Joseph Hannigan in a shop in King Street. Sydney. on…

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Stealing Bicycles

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 3

At the Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday last, before the P.M. (Mr. F. T. Scroope), John Leslie Phillip Holley, charged with…

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One Month's Gaol : Penalty for Assaulting Provosts

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 1

Convicted it the Goulburn Police Curt yesterday on charges of assaulting Provost Cols. Proctor and Clare, Raymond Gordon Garland. 27, market gardener. who pleaded not guilty, was sentenced to one month's hard labour…

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Solicitor Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Abraham George Brindley, 40, socitor, pleaded not guilty in Central Police Court yesterday to having a suit length…

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Sentenced to Death Taxi-Driver Murdered

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday: Elizabeth Marina, Jones, 18, strip-tease artiste, and Karl Gustav Hulten, 22, U.S…

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Fined for Stealing

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1945 · page 4

When he was found guilty of having taken a bottle of cordial valued at 26 from a railway truck at Albury, Kurt Konisberg was fined £5…

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Police Fingerprint Judge—no Arrest

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 25 January 1945 · page 5

HOBART: The Chief Justice (Sir John Morris) had his fingerprints taken by the police on Saturday. His car was stolen from outside…

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"FEME" — The Super Murder Gang A Name That Makes Germans Shudder

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 25 January 1945 · page 2

Himmler's paper, Das Schwarze Korps, recently published an article which contained a stern to everyone who, in case of an Allied occupation of Germany, might collaborate with the United Nations. "No official," so the paper said, "will dare to take…

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Shot Dead Sydney Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY: Early to-day. Donald Day. 40. a prominent figure in the Sydney underworld, and also known as "Donald the Duck." was found…

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