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

Courts & crime, 1946

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Boy of 14 Charged With Shooting

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 July 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: A 14-year-old boy has been charged with shooting his father with intent to kill, following the removal to hospital of…

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Gaol Term for Two Men "Crafty Criminals"

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 2

"Both defendants are cunning and crafty criminals who have set out on a career of crime," commented the Police Prosecutor, Senior Sergeant G. F. Frankish, after Clarence Thomas Prestwidge, 21, and…

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Doctors on Trial Mass Murder of Children

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 3

VIENNA, Tuesday: A doctor and his two women assistants are on trial before an Australian court on charges…

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Sydney Thugs Rockdale Assault

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 17 July 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY: The man who last night attacked Mrs. Agnes Buckley. 35, manageress, when she disturbed him in her room at the…

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Death for Nazis 43 Sentenced Life Imprisonment for Others

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 17 July 1946 · page 5

DACHAU, Wednesday: An American Military Court sentenced to death by hanging 43 German officers and…

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Police Object To Taxi Rank In Goulburn S[?]

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 July 1946 · page 8

Crookwell Council had appro[?] a site in Goulburn Street, near B[?] Australasia for a taxi stand,[?] to police approval…

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Impudent Burglary

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 July 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY: One of the most impudent thefts for a long time was committed yesterday when thieves entered the home of…

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Murder Charge Remand

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 July 1946 · page 5

NEWCASTLE: On, a charge of having murdered Beryl , May Newton 18, John Frederick Byrnes. 20 labourer, was…

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The Truth Drug Chicago Murder Story

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 July 1946 · page 5

CHICAGO, Wednesday: The truth drug, Sodium Pentothal, which allegedly was used on the university…

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Post's New Serial 'Monday Night Murder'

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 July 1946 · page 2

Sir Gilbert Dyall a well-known financier, was found dead on Tuesday morning in his room at the Beachaven Hydro, where…

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Published by Special Arrangement Copyright. the Monday Night Murder Chapter I at Breakfast

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 6

Beachaven is not a popular holiday resort. It does not cater for the multitude. Rather does it set itself out to attract those…

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Published by Special Arrangement. Copyright. the Monday Night Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 22 July 1946 · page 6

He was two years senior to Bernice. and he felt that he suffered under a sense of injustice. After all he couldn't help having…

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Cousens Charged with High Treason Jurisdiction of Court Will be Challenged

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 July 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: "This is a charge of high treason, and there is not yet a charge of high treason on the statute books of the Commonwealth or State.," declared Mr. Bradley, K.C., for the defence in the Central Police Court this morning, when Major…

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Published by Special Arrangement. Copyright. the Monday Night Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 July 1946 · page 2

"I suppose your medical man will be available should I want him?" was his next question. The Superintendent said that…

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Published by Special Arrangement. Copyright. the Monday Night Murder the Monday Night Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 July 1946 · page 8

Supposing someone—someone in the Hydro—had gone to Sir Gilbert's rooms last night prepared for murder it was a possibility…

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Great Support for Police Dance at Tuena

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 July 1946 · page 4

At the Tuena Hall on Saturday night last a very large crowd turned out to support the Anti-T.B. and Youth Campaign…

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Fined £20 for Stealing Rabbit Skins

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 25 July 1946 · page 6

Before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., at Yass Court, a defendant was fined £20 on two charges of stealing rabbit skins. John Robert Towse, was…

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The Murder in Palestine

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 25 July 1946 · page 2

The expected has happened in Palestine, and it is not necessarily the climax. For months now a state of…

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Published by Special Arrangement. Copyright. the Monday Night Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 25 July 1946 · page 6

The detective did not sit down He changed his mind and walked over to the window and stood with his back against it…

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Murder Threat for Sidky Pasha

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 July 1946 · page 2

CAIRO, Friday: Premier Sidky Pasha has received three letters threatening assassination if he signs the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty…

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