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

Courts & crime, 1946

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Captain's Flat Explosion Police Enquiries Go On

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 2

Goulburn police are still Investigating the cause of the explosion which rocked Captain's Flat on Saturday night…

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Murder of Woman Man Detained

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 3 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: Police are to-day questioning a man with regard to the murder of Mrs. Jean Weeks, 45, of Macleay Street? Potts…

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Sentenced to Death Four Japanese

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 3

LABUAN (Borneo), Friday: The Allied Court has sentenced to death four Japanese for the murder of Australian and British…

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No Clue to Sydney Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: The police have found no further clue to the murder of Mrs. Jean Weeks, 45, whose body was found in a York…

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Extradition Order on N.s.w. Car Stealing Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE: A warrant for the extradition from Melbourne to Gundagai, New South Wales, of Assid Dihood, care of the Albion Hotel, Cootamundra, shopkeeper, on a larceny charge, was ordered to be issue…

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Goering Angry in Court Calls German Witness A Dirty Dog

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3

NUREMBERG, Tuesday: Flushed with anger and losing his customary mocking smile, Goering cursed General Zelewski and called him a dirty dog and traitor when, as a witness, he was giving…

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Charge of Murder Sydney Reporter Arrested

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: A 26-year-old newspaper reporter was charged last night with the murder of Mrs. Jean wicks, kiosk proprietress…

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"Hell and Gaol Are Paved With Concrete," Says Minister

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 3

A nice tribute was paid recently by the Rev. H. D. Mackie, of the Manse, Hay, to the beauty of the Yanko Creek Weir, in the course of a local press controversy of the most suitable kind of war memorial for Hay…

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Yearly Police Returns No Marked Increase In Crime

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 3

Instances of crime in Goulburn during 1945 as shown by the yearly police returns did not show any marked…

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Murder in Chicago

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 3

CHICAGO, Thursday: The police found a red-stained yellow blanket and a knife behind the apartment where…

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Fireman’s Death Strange Circumstances Police Claim

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 2

An amazing chain of most extraordinary circumstances, which led to the untimely death of Arthur Patrick…

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Treason Charge Baillie Stewart Before Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: Norman Baillie Stewart, 37, a former officer of the British Army, was charged at the…

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Arrest for Assault

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 2

KEMPSEY: Frank Browning, 31, of Bagnoo, via Wauchope, was arrested by detectives yesterday, and later charged at the Port…

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Five Years' Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 1

LONDON: Norman Ballie Stewart, 37, an officer in the British Army before the war, was yesterday sentenced to five years…

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Woman Charged With Shooting

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: Iris Nichols, 30, photographer, was charged at the Central Police Court with having shot at Colin Fitzgerald last…

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Police Conditions

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: Apart from the cost of living increases, there had been no improvement in the pay of policemen since 1927, the secretary…

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From EVERYWHERE Death Penalty for Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 2

An Allied military court has sentenced to death two gang leaders who led a raid on a cellar where fat was stored and stole…

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FELICITATIONS Bench, Bar Table and Police

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 1

Yesterday's sitting of the Crookwell Court of Petty Sessions was marked by an exchange of feliciations between…

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Weird Story Told in Braidwood Court Man Committed to Stand Trial at Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 1

A weird drama of a man who allegedly waited in the bush for two days in an attempt to shoot at a woman, who at one time was alleged to have lived with him, was unfolded before the Braidwood Police Court on Thursday…

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Double Visit Charges of Theft at Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 5

At the Goulburn Police Court this morning, Peter John Rhall, 38, bootmaker, faced two charges of breaking, entering and stealing…

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