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

Courts & crime, 1946

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FINED £10 Theft at 114th A.G.H.

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 1

Convicted on a charge of stealing goods from the 11th A. G. H. Leslie Coleman of Wollondilly Avenue, Kenmore…

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Goulburn's Home Shortage Revealed in Court Case

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 6

An indication of the acute housing shortage existing in Goulburn at present was given at the Police Court yesterday when a tenant told the Bench that she had made 20 different applications for a home but had been unsuccessful…

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Suspicion Is Enough for Gaol Detention

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 6 February 1946 · page 1

HOBART: A Prices Branch case before the Police Court at Launceston has shown that under the National Security regulations a man only suspected of an offence may be arrested and kept in gaol…

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Under the Influence Owner-Passenger Charged With Driving When Intoxicated

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 6 February 1946 · page 6

An unusual charge was preferred against a defendant at the Moss Vale Police Court on Wednesday. Knowing that the driver of the vehicle was under the influence of liquor, the owner, who was a passenger in the vehicles…

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Justice Was Vile Judge and Lawyers Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Thursday: Former Federal Judge Albert Johnston, of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, sold justice in his…

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The Old Berrima Gaol a Historic Landmark Displaced by Modern Prison Camp

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 3

The last mute evidence of, the. handgman's noose, the lash that was freely used, and the dens of solitary confinement where outlaws paid the price in repulsive forms of capital punishment, is fast being reduced to memory…

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Daring Burglary

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY: Before carrying away a safe containing £260 from the Mansion Private Hotel in Elizabeth Street,…

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General Homma Sentenced to Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 3

MANILA, Tuesday: Lieutenant-General Homma, former Japanese Commander in the philippines, has been sentenced to be shot for…

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Murder of Dutch Population by Indonesian Extremists

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 2

All boys and men between the ages of 14 and 40, which were concentrated in the Bronbeek area, Bandoeng, by Indonesian extremists, were killed in a field outside the district…

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Murder in Kiosk Inquest Opens

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY: Following the introduction of tobacco rationing about three years ago, Mrs. Jeanette Wicks,…

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Germans to Hang For Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 3

HEREFORD (Germany), Wednesday: Five S.S. officers were sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of an…

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Murder of Mrs. Wicks Witness Heard Two Screams

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: The crowd who again waited for two hours for the doors to open at the City Corner's Court to-day were mainly women, and they rushed, seats in the tiny public gallery when the inquest was resumed into the death of Mrs…

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Big Theft of Clothing At Cootamundra

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 3

Goulburn police have been notified of the theft of a quantity of clothing valued at £100 from the Cootamundra…

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Forgot His Radio Hohenzollern Goes to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Friday: A Cannadian court in occupied Germany sentenced Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern, 19-year-old great…

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Inquest Into Kiosk Murder Evidence by the C.I.B.

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: Evidence by scientific experts was given to-day at the Coroner's' Court when the inquest was continued into the death of Mrs. Jeanette wicks who was found murdered in her York Street kiosk on January 2…

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Doctor and Wife Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 February 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: At the Central Court to-day, James Kingkpatric, 68, medical practitioner and his wife. Jessie Elizabeth Kingpatric, 49,…

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Congressman Goes to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: The Federal Court sentenced a member of the House of Representatives, James Curley, who was…

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Kiosk Murder Inquest Conversation With Morris

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: When the inquest into the death of Mrs. Jeanette Weeks was resumed to-day, before the City…

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Huge Theft Ring Disclosures in Canada

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 3

HALIFAX., Nova, Scotia, . Wednesday: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police disclosed the discovery of a huge…

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Nearing End of Kiosk Inquest Court Again Crowded

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY: The City Coroner's Court was again packed this morning when the inquest into the death of Mrs. Jeanette Wicks in the York Street tobacco kiosk on January 2 entered its fifth and, it is…

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