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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 9 of 14

Prison Riot In Italian Gaol ROME, Monday

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 July 1945 · page 3

ROME, Monday: Prisoners in the Regina Coeli prison last night capped their 24 hours' revolt by setting fire to the roof of the gaol…

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Murder Charge Auckland, N.Z., Monday

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 July 1945 · page 3

AUCKLAND, N.Z., Monday: Keith Bennett, 26, returned soldier, has been arrested and charged with the murder of Lois…

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CONVICTED For Assaulting Police £20 Fine and £50 COMPENSATION

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 23 July 1945 · page 1

FoIIowing happenings at Yans on May 26 last Athol Roy Keeley 23 was convicted at the Court of Petty Sessions on…

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Petain on Trial Big Guard Over The Court PARIS, Sunday

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 July 1945 · page 3

PARIS, Sunday: Armed with rifles and tommy-guns, several hundred police last night maintained a ,guard…

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Riot in Italian Gaol Continues

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 July 1945 · page 3

ROME. Monday: A new and more serious riot Has broken out among the 2400 prisoners in the Regina. Coeli Gal when the guards…

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Gaol Sentence for Bettor

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 25 July 1945 · page 3

NEWCASTLE: Pleading guilty in the Police Court when charged as a second offender, James Stanley George Mills (44), dockside…

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Guam: Great New Allied Assault Base

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 25 July 1945 · page 7

"If the boys want fresh meat,we'll see that they get fresh meat," he said. Flying at a very low altitude, he located the unit and supplies fell…

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Committed for Trial Alleged Assault and Robbery

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 26 July 1945 · page 6

At the Nowra Police Court last week Samual Wallace Solomon and Jean Brown (stated to have come from Yass) aboriginals, were…

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Woman Charged With Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 30 July 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY In the Central Court to-day Esther Gilbert, 23, a soldier's wife, was remanded until August 15 on a charge of having…

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Sheep Theft Rabbiter Fined Hanging in His Hut

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 31 July 1945 · page 5

Stating to the police that he had been given portion of a carcase of sheep by his wife when he was home the…

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Remanded to Central Alleged Intent to Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 31 July 1945 · page 2

The sequel to the shooting of a youth at Hilltop on the morning of June 29 was the appearance at the…

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Police and Guns

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 August 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: The discovery to-day of another sub-machine gun, believed to be a Japanese type, which was round hidden under…

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Woman Collapses When Murder Charge Opens

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 August 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE: When the in[?]st on Cpl. Vera Matilda Wiper, [?] a W.A.A.A.F.. opened to-day, [?]rs, Ruby Nina Carlos. 56 of…

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Police Fear Crime Outbreak

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 August 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Senior police officials fear a fresh outbreak of crime in Sydney leading to gang warfare, They believe that now the…

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Warned by the Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 August 1945 · page 3

NEWCASTLE: The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission announced that if employees of the Newcastle Chemical Co., O[?] Ltd.,…

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Charges of Murder Against Japs

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 August 1945 · page 3

CHUNKING. Monday: The Chinese officially reported 50,000 Chinese civilians are missing from the Kan[?]sien area 240 miles to the…

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CONVICTED Three Charges of Stealing “Suffer with Nerves”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 6 August 1945 · page 2

A defendant, who stated he was a returned, discharged soldier, and that he was at Kokoda, pleaded guilty to…

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Yass Police Will Collect Clothes For U.N.R.R., If Advised

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 6 August 1945 · page 2

The Commissioner of Police has specially requested that a house to house canvass be made at Yass for clothing suitable for distribution to…

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Escape From Gaol Soldiers Scale The Wall

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 August 1945 · page 3

Berrima Gaol was not long in getting back into the news following its reestablishment as a civil…

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Dismissed From Church She Went to Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 August 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Action of interest to Christian Scientists was begun at the Equiyty Court to-day, when Mrs. Leila Potter asked for a withdrawal…

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