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

Courts & crime, 1946

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Murder in Java

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 1

BATAVIA, Thursday: It, is now considered practically certain that 16 Dutchmen whom the Indonesians arrested last October…

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Shooting at Teheran Demonstration By Left Wing Ends In Police Action

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 29 April 1946 · page 3

TEHERAN, Monday: Two persons were killed and three wounded when the police fired on a group of workers en route to Teheran airfield before the arrival of the political commission from Azerbaijan, headed by…

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Kiosk Murder Growing Interest

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: Public interest in the kiosk murder trial was more pronounced to-day than yesterday…

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Fines for Taxation Act Breaches Five Charges Heard At Goulburn Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 April 1946 · page 1

Five charges by the Taxation Department against Goulburn residents for failure to furnish returns and other offences concerning tax stamps, were heard before the P.M. Mr. T. H. Brooke, at the Police Court yesterday. Fines amounting…

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Kiosk Murder Rush for Seats

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 May 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: When the case in which Douglas Ronald Morris is charged with the murder of Mrs. Jeannette Wicks was resumed…

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Kiosk Murder Trial Blood-Stained Coat

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 May 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY: When the trial of Douglas Ronald Morris, journalist, for murder was resumed today, Mr. J. J. Kinkead asked…

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Police Charge a Pixie

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 May 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Anonymous phone calls to a number of police stations early to-day sent police rushing to the Harbour Bridge…

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No Gaol; Married the Girl

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 May 1946 · page 4

Because the accused had married the girl concerned in the his Honor, Judge Shortland. refrained from imposing a gaol sentence on a…

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Prosecution Nears End In Kiosk Murder Trial

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 May 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: The defence of Ronald Douglas Morris, 26, journalist, on the charge of murdering Mrs. Jeannette…

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£2500 Writ Shire Involved Supreme Court Action

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 May 1946 · page 3

A writ has been issued out of the Supreme Court. Sydney, for an amount of £2500 against the…

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Six Months Pensioner Goes To Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 May 1946 · page 3

At the Goulburn Police Court this morning before the P.M. Mr. McElroy, Leslie Shepherd, 67, pensioner, of…

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"Kiosk" Murder Trial Enters Its Sixth Day

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 May 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: The "Klosk" murder entered its sixth day to-day. Morris, the accused is expected to enter the witness box this…

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Hotel Theft: Young Man Is Bound Over

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 1

Convicted of stealing £3/10/ and two packets of cigarettes from a room at the Southern Railway Hotel on Saturday last, Donald Robert Waldock, a young married man, was bound over at the Goulburn Police Court…

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Alleged Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY: Before a court martial at R.A.N. Headquarters, Richard Essex Scott, A.B., was charged with the theft of 4097…

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Cycle Lights Police Warning To Riders

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 8

A warning to cyclists to have their machines properly equipped with lights was given this morning by a…

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Dissimilar Ropes Says Expert This Morning's Evidence In Kiosk Murder Trial

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY: Giving evidence at the Kiosk murder trial to-day, an Austrian textile engineer who is now a naturalised Australian working as a commercial photographer, declared that the rope found around the neck of Mrs…

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McKEOWN Murder Inquest

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 May 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY: When the inquest began at the City Coroner's Court this morning into the death of Miles Henry ("Face") McKeown,…

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Goulburn Circuit Criminal Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 May 1946 · page 8

No jurors will be required for the Goulburn Church Criminal Court fixed for Tuesday next…

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"A Foul Deed" Says Mr. Kinkead Addresses Begin in Kiosk Murder Trial

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 May 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY: "The Kiosk Murder was a foul deed," declared Mr. J. J. Kinkead, Counsel for the defence when opened his address to the jury to-day. In the case in which Douglas Ronald Morris journalist, 26 is charged…

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Judge Will Sit Till Midnight If Necessary To Finish Kiosk Murder Trial

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 May 1946 · page 3

Sydney: The Crow prosecutor, Mr. Kidston in his address to the jury in the trial in which Douglas Ronald Morris, journalist, is charged with the murder of Mrs. Jeanette Wicks…

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