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

Courts & crime, 1948

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All Rifles Larger Than 22 Must Be Handed to Police

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 6

All rifles of a calibre larger than .22 must be handed in to the local police, or sold to a registered pistol dealer…

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Man Sentenced for Stealing "Nothing Further From My Mind," Says Defendant

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 1

Charged in Goulburn court yesterday with stealing a man's sports coat, Kevin Theodore Dalton, protested: "Nothing could be further from my mind." In an eloquent plea for…

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Man Sentenced To Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: After a retirement of 45 minutes, Sa Jury' at Winchester Assizes yesterday found James…

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"Flying Magistrate"

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 1

Cooma is to have a "Flying Magistrate." Mr. A. N. Bott, is the new S.M. and we understand that hit addition to Broken Hill…

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Two Months' Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 5

On an obscene exposure charge a man was sentenced to two months' hard labour in Goulburn Court this week…

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Three British Constables Are Sentenced

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 5

JERUSALEM, Thursday: Three British police constables have been sentenced to ten years and seven years'…

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Yass Court on Cootamundra Circuit

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 5

Yass Court of Petty Sessions has been taken from the Goulburn to the Cootamundra circuit. The Court will sit on the…

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Stabbing Affray Man Charged with Intent to Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 March 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY: Salvatore Sannut. 55, a poultry former, appeared at the Parramatta Court today, charged with wounding Mary…

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Court Circuit Changes

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 4

In future the monthly Court of Petty Sessions will be held in Crookwell on the third Tuesday in the month…

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Compensation Court Next Week

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 1

Judge Perdrlau will preside over a sitting of the Workers' Compensation Court in the Goulburn Court House on Monday,…

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Brutal Assault On A Girl

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY: An intense police hunt is being conducted for the man who brutally attacked and criminally assaulted an…

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Coatless Man in Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 1

NARRANDERA: A prisoner dressed in a white shirt end trousers was the most sensibly dressed man in court, suggested…

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Strike Ends In Queensland Rowe Yields To Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 5

BRISBANE: Railway men at Brisbane and Ipswich today decided to return to work. Their decision means…

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Miners Defy the Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 3

PITTSBURGH Monday: The nation's 400,000 soft coal miners yesterday defied the Federal Court…

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Clerk Charged with Stealing £176

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY: A young man, alleged to have stolen £175 from his employers, on Friday, lost it at Randwick on Saturday,…

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Landholder May Go to Gaol Ticklish Bathurst Problem

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 6

The action of a Dunkled landholder who has not paid his fine, following a convicition for failing to destroy rabbits, was described at last Bathurst…

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Judge Praised Man In Court Without Coat

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 7

A prisoner dressed in white shirt and trousers was the most sensibly dressed man in court, suggested Judge Berne at the Narrandera…

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Just Murder for Its Own Sake British Statement On The Jewish Barbarity In Palestine

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 5

LONDON, Friday: The Minister for the Dominions, Mr. Creech Jones, in a statement on the Jewish shooting of British soldiers in the camp in Palestine said it was a most cold-blooded murder for its own sake. Such senseless crimes by…

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World Police Brains Trust Chases International Crooks

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 2

LONDON (By Air Mail): The International Criminal Police Commission—the world's "Brains Trust" of 22 countries, which, from headquarters in Paris, wages a fight against world crime—is quietly but effectively building up its machinery to keep abreast of modern political and criminal events…

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From Everywhere Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 2

A safe containing £400 in money, cheques for £410, and tickets for 1,000 gallons of Petrol was stolen from Alan J. Ball's…

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