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

Courts & crime, 1945

279 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 11 of 14

Alleged Stealing Two Sailors Committed For Trial

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 13 September 1945 · page 1

Two British naval ratings, William McPherson, 22, and Michael Moore, 19, were on Monday committed at the Goulburn Police…

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Stock Permits Copy of Permits For Police

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 13 September 1945 · page 5

The Department of Agriculture informed the Yass P.P. Board or Tuesday that a communication had been received from the…

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Double Murder Charge Sydney Shooting Outcome

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 19 September 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Charged with the murder of two men and the wounding of three others, in a Paddington house yesterday,…

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Dutchman Sentenced

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 20 September 1945 · page 5

ANTWERP, Thursday: The latest European war criminal to receive the death sentence is Jan Timermans, whom the Germans…

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Cigarettes Stolen From Truck Returned Man Is Found Guilty of Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 September 1945 · page 2

Convicted at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday on two charges of knowingly having in the custody of Ellen Morton and Amelia Egan goods reasonably suspected of having been stolen Bernard James Knight a shunter employed on the…

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Murder Charge Youth Involved

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 October 1945 · page 2

PERTH: A 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with with the murder of Bremner shaw, 40-yers-old bricklayer, at…

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Another Gaol Is Wanted

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 3 October 1945 · page 3

CANBERRA: The Minister for Justice, Mr. Downing, to-day revealed that sites for a new State penitentiary are being inspected…

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Appreciation for Aid Shown by Police Department

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 3 October 1945 · page 3

Merit on rare occasions receives its just reward. An instance of this was provided at Goulburn yesterday when two young railway porters. Messrs T. G. Mullen and J. Murray were each presented with a certificate of…

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Divorce Court Fletcher v. Fletcher

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 4 October 1945 · page 3

In the Divorce Court at Sydney before Mr. Justice Edwards on September 5, Albert George Fletcher, of Yass, council employee,…

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Assault on Station At Fairfield

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 October 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: The Assistant Station Master of Fairfield, together with a porter and a Royal Naval rating, was…

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Important Decision Murder Trials in Germany

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 October 1945 · page 2

WIESBADEN, Monday: When the trial opened here of six German men and women charged with the…

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Laval's Trial Accused not in Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 October 1945 · page 3

PARIS, Tuesday Another [?]eries of amazing incidents [?]ulminated in a request by he defence counsel that the…

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Yamashita Is Charged With Crimes 25,000 Specific Cases Alleged Not Much Like a Tiger in the Dock

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 October 1945 · page 3

MANILA, Tuesday: Specific cases of beatings, rape, torture, mutilation and massacre of over 25,000 non-combatant men, women and children in Philippines are among the charges listed against…

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£150 MISSING After Assault

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 October 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Victor Henry Friedlander, 28, of Lane Cove, reported to the police to-day that he had been attacked by five…

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Sentenced to 18 Months for Skin Store Breaking

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 October 1945 · page 1

At the Cooma Quarter Sessions, before Judge Nield, Leslie William Murphy,' of Canberra, was sentenced to 18 months hard labour on a charge of breaking into the store of Thomas W. Green and Co., at Quenbeyan, on September…

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FINED £100 High Price Charged for Furniture

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 October 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Two estate agents John Abury Francis and Leonard Gordon Randall, partners in a business at King's Cross were…

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Suspension Lifted Court and Doctor

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 October 1945 · page 1

The State Full Court yesterday over-ruled the penalty of 12 months' suspension from practice imposed by the Medical…

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Railway Employee Sentenced

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 11 October 1945 · page 4

A large quantity of Abdulla cigarettes had been stolen between Melbourne and Brisbane. At the Goulburn Police Court a railway…

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King's Cross Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 October 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY: Daisy Hughes,. 65, an old-age pensioner, was found murdered in a basement room of a residential in Victoria Street,…

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Sailor Charged With Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 October 1945 · page 3

A large body of detectives visited naval ships in Sydney Harbour yesterday, and late in the afternoon went aboard the British…

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