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

Courts & crime, 1947

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Strangers Before Local Court : Offensive Behaviour Charged

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 4

Two men, Horace William Dudley Duff (35.) and Charles., Johnson (36), strangers to Crookwell, were arrested, by…

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Murder or War? Tribal Difference

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 1

JOHANNESBURG, Wednesday: The police have discovered the bodies of 15 bushmen in the wild desert…

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Driving Under Influence Mittagong Man Before Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 8

Pleading guilty to charges involving drunkenness and driving a car Whilst under the influence of liquor…

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Poultry Pilfered Police Vigilant Thefts Reported in Town and District

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 February 1947 · page 2

There has been an outbreak of poultry pilfering in the town and district and police are watching suspects. It is difficulty, however…

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A New Bible Magistrate's Comment

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 February 1947 · page 5

"The Bible you have in use for swearing witnesses needs replacing; in the near future I will send you another…

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Court Cases Increase

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 5

The Clerk of Petty Sessions, Moss Vale, reports that the number of cases heard before the Police…

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Nuns Sentenced to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

BELGRADE Tuesday; Four Roman Catholic nuns who are alleged to have forced school children to spy on one another…

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Bail at £50 Stealing Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 2

Norman Edward Robards, 41, at present serving a sentence at the Goulburn Reformatory, was brought…

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Five Years' Gaol Judge Warns Criminals

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 5

Sentences of five years gaol were imposed on two Melbourne criminals, with 12 months' in the case of…

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Three More Jews Sentenced Agency Tries to Evade the Ultimatum

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

JERUSALEM, Thursday: Three of four Jewish youths who were on trial for carrying firearms were sentenced to death and a fourth to imprisonment for life…

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Three Years in Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 February 1947 · page 5

Convicted at the Goulburn Quarter Sessions this morning on a charge of indecently assaulting a 14-year-old male,…

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Warning by Judge Woman Sent to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 February 1947 · page 4

Breaking, entering and stealing offences were becoming far too prevalent and must be suppressed,…

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"Will Protect Community" Judge Orders Long Gaol Terms

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 February 1947 · page 1

Three men, two of whom were shown to have criminal records, received short shrift when they appeared before His Honour Judge Berne at the Goulburn Quarter Sessions yesterday to…

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Prisoners on Strike in Pentridge Gaol Meals: Conditions Resented

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 February 1947 · page 5

MELBOURNE: Prisoners on strike at Pentridge Gaol were brought before the visiting magistrate, Mr. McLean, P.M., at the gaol this morning. Simultaneously the Police Department revealed that they had not been asked to Intervene, It was pointed out that it was no concern, of theirs unless there was a…

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Court Cases Adjourned for One Month

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 February 1947 · page 10

On the application of Mr. C. Prentice (for Frank Druett) and with the consent of Mr. Henry Litton (for complainant Thelma…

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Juveniles Given Five Years' Gaol Amazing Escapade by Three Boys Judge Rejects Pleas for Leniency

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 February 1947 · page 1

Three Sydney boys, ranging in age from 17 to 15, who late year embarked on a shortlived but audacious career of crime, during which they plundered shops and dwellings in the course…

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Gaol for Assault Taralga Man Sentenced

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 1

Convicted at the Goulburn Quarter Sessions yesterday on a charge of indecently assaulting a 14-year-old male,…

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Court Verdict for Tenant Owner's Case Fails

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 4

A verdict in favour of the tenant, Mrs. Beulah Vera Douglas, was entered by the P.M., Mr. T. H. Brooke,…

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Grogan Estate Supreme Court Case Verdict for Defendants

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 20 February 1947 · page 2

John Bede Grogan, late of Tang-mangaroo who died in September, 1942, gave, under his will, a substantial portion of his estate to the…

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Gaol for Assault

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY: Colin Smilie, 41, of Surry Hills. was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for having assaulted Mrs. Marie…

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