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

Courts & crime, 1948

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Police Station Hours

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 4

Office hours at the Crookwell Police Station have been varied. The office will in future be…

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Defendant Acquitted Court Case In Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 7

Arrested on a charge of driving under the influence of liquor, a young man fell asleep in the Goulburn cells,…

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Abuse Of Police Makes Judge "Boil With Anger"

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 1

"I boil with anger whenever I hear people abusing the police," said Judge Berne, in the Goulburn Quarter Sessions yesterday. There were a "few black…

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Drinking of Intoxicating Liquor at Dances Judge Berne Tells Appeals Court He Is Shocked

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 5

News that people drank intoxicating liquor at dances shocked" Judge Berne in the Goulburn Appeals Court yesterday. "Do people really drink at…

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Fined for Stealing Box of Bees

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 4

When John Wilson, better known in Yass than at Gundagai, picked up a bee box on the Hume Highway, little did he realise the…

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Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 February 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY: In the Central Court today Reginald James Kitching, 27, former prisoner of War, was remanded until…

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Judge Berne and Sentences “Deal More Leniently With Stealing Cases”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 16 February 1948 · page 1

Because his “arguments and mqtives” had not appealed to members of the Court of Criminal Appeal, Judge…

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Alleged Theft of £304 Man Remanded At Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 February 1948 · page 1

Mr. Hook, S.M., in the Goulburn Court yesterday, committed a young man for trial on a charge of stealing £304 from a Bungendore grazier on January 30. In a statement from the dock,…

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Hotel Wanderer Fined £10 at Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 February 1948 · page 1

Edward Matthews who spent a somewhat eventful night, at the Imperial Hotel, Goulburn, last Friday, was a man of somewhat peculiar habits, Goulburn Police Court was told yesterday…

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Police "Blitz" on Traffic Court Sequel To Mundy St. Crash

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 February 1948 · page 2

Sequel to a police "blitz on Traffic and Transport Act offenders late last year was the imposition of fines on a number of motorists in Goulburn Court yesterday. Driver of a motor lorry which…

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Theft Of Liquor From Captain's Flat

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 February 1948 · page 3

Thieves broke into a Captain's Flat wine and spirits shop during the week-end and stole a large quantity of liquor…

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No Trace of Body Police Search At Tallong

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 February 1948 · page 3

Search for the body of the 20-year-old Sydney youth, who was drowned in the Shoalhaven River on…

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Police Court Correction

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 18 February 1948 · page 3

OUR report concerning charge against Mr. T.J. Evans, of Redground, for negligent driving has apparently been misconstrued…

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Police Recover Canoe: Youth Still Missing

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 February 1948 · page 7

Police, dragging the Shoalhaven River for the [?] of a youth who was drown, d on Sunday, yesterday recovered the canoe from which he fell. The canoe was found about…

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New Police Chief Superintendent J.F. Scott

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 February 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY: State Cabinet yesterday appointed Superintendent J. F. Scott Commissioner of Police in succession, to Mr. W. J. MacKay, who died last month. Before making its decision Cabinet considered the…

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He Made His Grade But Landed In Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 February 1948 · page 1

Basil Barnes, of Sydney, who walked down Auburn Street last Thursday, obeyed a strange impulse. He…

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Banking Act in Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 February 1948 · page 4

MELBOURNE: Resuming his attack on the Banking Act before the High Court today. Dr. Coppewell (for the Australian…

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Greyhound Ruling Court Supports Board

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 February 1948 · page 8

SYDNEY: Mr. Justice Sugerman, in the Equity Court yesterday, upheld the right of the Greyhound Racing Control Board…

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No Stock Permit Sydney Driver in Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 February 1948 · page 1

Charged with transporting horses without a stock permit a motor lorry driver was fined £2, in Goulburn Court this…

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Decent, Efficient Men' [?]Ldge Praises Police

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 7

A warm admirer and keen defender of the police is Judge F. W. Berne, in whose circuit Young is included. At Goulburn Sessions…

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