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

Courts & crime, 1947

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Police Stay Away Bathurst Motor Racing Is Boycotted

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 July 1947 · page 4

BATHURST: The Police Commissioner, Mr. MacKay, has notified the Australian Sporting Car Club that police officers will…

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Police Raid on Local Hotel

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 18 July 1947 · page 4

Police last night raided a local hotel and found a number of men on the premises. The police, under Senior…

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Murder of Coates a Melbourne Mystery

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 July 1947 · page 5

MELBOURNE: Detectives today began an intensive search of Melbourne's underworld for suspects in the…

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Crime in Goulburn Low, Says Police Super

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 July 1947 · page 3

The incidence of crime in Goulburn was very low in comparision with, other centres Police Superintendent…

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Underground Murder in Melbourne Strange Career Comes to End in Children's Playground

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 July 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE: The police have established that an expert gunman who fired an automatic pistol from the hip, shot James Coates, 46, whose bullet-riddled body was found ii a children's playground early on Sunday morning…

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Radio System at Gaol Ready Soon

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 5

Mr. A. A. Turnbull, Governor of the Goulburn Reformatory, revealed to-day that the installation of radio loud speakers in 100 cells at the gaol would be completed early next week…

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Claim on Albania International Court Hearing

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday: Albania has appointed an agent for hearing before the International Court of…

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Appeal by Indonesian Premier "War, Not Police Measures" (A.A.P.-Reuter)

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 5

SINGAPORE, Wednesday: A warning that the Indonesian crisis "is not in the interests of peace and stability in south-east Asia and the world at large" was given by the Indonesian…

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Yass Magistrate Now S.m

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 July 1947 · page 2

The magistrate on the Goulburn Petty Sessions circuit (Mr. A. E. Debenham) now has the title of stipendiary magistrate. The title of…

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Unusual Position in Cowra Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 24 July 1947 · page 2

A peculiar situation arose in the Cowra District Licensing Court, when Mr. J. B. Scobie sat as chauman of the…

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Lavers Murder Case Death Sentence Commuted

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 July 1947 · page 5

State Cabinet has decided to commute to gaol for life the sentence of death which Mr. Justice Herron imposed on Frederick…

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Sudden Death of Gaol Warder

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 July 1947 · page 3

A post mortem has been ordered following the death of a well-known Goulburn resident at the District…

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Shocking Double Murder Reported in England

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 July 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Monday: Three hundred men armed with staves and cudgels joined the police yesterday afternoon in hunting through Surrey Woods near Guildford for the killer of Eileen Gaff, 9, and her brother, Leslie, 7, who were attacked while out in the woods…

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Students in Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 July 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY: Thirteen University students who were arrested during last Friday's disturbances outside the Dutch Government's…

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Labourer Fined Heavily in Yass Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 28 July 1947 · page 1

James Clarke, also known as John Wren, labourer was fined heavily at Yass Court of Petty Sessions last week, on charges of drunkenness,…

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Child Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 29 July 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday: Frederick Alfred smith, 21, window cleaner, of Worplesdon, was charged at Guildford yesterday…

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8 Men Break Gaol Warder Overcome

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 29 July 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE: Eight prisoners escaped from Beech-worth Prison at midnight after the night warder had…

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Sentence of Death End of de Antiquis Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 29 July 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: At the Old Bailey yesterday, Charles Henry Jenkins, 23, and Christopher James…

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Gun Battle in Shanghai Police Versus Gendarmes

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 29 July 1947 · page 3

SHANGHAI, Tuesday: Following a gun-battle with gendarmes on Sunday, in which eight people were killed and…

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Motorists Appear at Goulburn Court Three Fined for Breaches

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 29 July 1947 · page 1

Three motorists were filled by Mr. A. E. Debenham, S.M., at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday for failing to observe traffic rules. The heaviest fine of £5, plus…

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