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

Courts & crime, 1947

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Fifteen to Die Prison Guards Sentenced

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 3

BERLIN, Thursday: Fifteen guards from the notorious F l e a s e n b u r g Concentration Camp have been sentenced to…

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Accommodation Shortage Magistrate's Advice to Licensees

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 3

A proposal that Goulburn hotelkeepers should form an association with the object of providing better…

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Court Refuses Spirit Licence Police Raise Objection

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

The licensing Magistrate, Mr. V. M. Wells, yesterday refused to grant a spirit merchant's licence to a…

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Dawson Again Charged Case Withdrawn

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY: A charge against David Stewart Dawson, 24, company director, alleging that he made a false declaration to…

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Co-operation Of Police Sought

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

The co-operation of the police. is being sought to stop the prevalent practice of individuals from throwing bottles on…

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Court Refuses Spirit Licence

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 4

A 1914-18 returned man and a Squadron-Leader in the last war Styles stated under cross-examination by Mr. Ian R. Duffy…

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Not Sufficient Bedrooms Court Inquires into Hotel Position

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

At a special Licensing Court held in Goulburn yesterday, Police Inspector T. J. Ellis applied to the Magistrate, Mr. V. M. Wells, for orders to be served on six hotel owners requiring them to…

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Riots in India: Deaths Mount Clashes in Calcutta and Bombay Areas Police Fire on Mobs: Wild Orgy of Looting and Arson

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 5

CALCUTTA, Friday: Several deaths are included in the mounting list of casualties reported as a result of the latest outbreak of rioting and communal disturbances in the Bombay and Calcutta areas…

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Goulburn Police Staff Changes Announced

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 27 January 1947 · page 3

Several changes to the Goulburn police staff were announced this morning by Inspector T. J. Ellis…

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Woman Electrocuted Clothes Line "Charged"

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 1

BRISBANE: Mrs. Rita Catherine McPherson Allard, 29, was electrocuted by a clothes-line in the backyard of her home in…

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Cases Adjourned Hotelkeepers Before Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 1

Listed for hearing at the Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday was a case in which John H- McLennan proceeded against Charles J…

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Young Man Committed for Trial on Assault Charge Local Girl Allegedly Beaten And Ill-Treated On Christmas Eve

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 1

At the Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday, Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., committed Edward Neville, 20 years station hand to stand his trial at the Quarter Sessions at 2.30 p.m. on Monday February 10, on a…

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Compelled to Live in Rail Van Court Grants Man Home

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 2

At the Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions the P.M., Mr. T. H. Brooke granted an application by an ex-serviceman for…

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Body Found in Surf Anonymous Call to Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY: Answering an anonymous all, Bondi police found the body of an elderly man on Bondi Beach…

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Battle for Possession of Noonbinna House Magistrate Adjourns Case

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 2

Thomas Henry Wells, bottle merchant, of Rossi Street, Yass, made application in the Cowra Court of Petty Sessions last week for…

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Dock Area Murder Chinese Shot in Car

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE: No arrests so far have been made following the murder of a Chinese seaman and the…

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Begged Money in Auburn St. Aboriginal Sent to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 7

The action of Raymond Bell, 36-year-old aboriginal, of Burrinjuck, in asking a man dressed in civilian clothes for money…

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Bomb Message Police Suspect Hoax

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 4

LONDON, Friday: The Welbeck telephone exchange received a message: "Clear Buckingham Palace because bombs have been…

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Alleged Fraud Accountant Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY: It was alleged in the General Police Court to-day that Philip Dudleigh Walker, 49, accountant, wrote…

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Business Firms Defrauded Worthless Cheques Lead to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 1

A 34-yaer old man who claimed that he had received only three months' schooling and was practically illiterate, was sentenced yesterday to two years gaol when convicted at the Goulburn Police…

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