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

Courts & crime, 1948

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Big Jewellery Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE: A safe containing jewellery valued at 2000 was stolen from the Hawthorn home of Dr. Cecil N…

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Order for Eviction Application In Local Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 1

In Goulburn Court yesterday a landlord successfully applied for the eviction of a tenant from a Coromandel Street cottage. However, Mr. Hook, S.M., said…

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Alleged Setting Fire to Police Station Accused Again Remanded On £1000 Bail

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 1

Charged with maliciously setting fire to the Goulburn Police Station, Thomas Leonard Monday, 32, was remanded until May 10 in the local Police Court yesterday…

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Minister for Lands in Land Court Urges Claims Of Ex-Soldier

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY: The Minister for Lands, Mr. Sheahan, appeared for an ex-soldier in the Land and Valuation Court yesterday and appealed against a decision of the Cootamundra Land Board…

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Police and Transfers

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY: Police, at the annual conference of the Police Association, decided to-day to seek the right to appeal against…

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He Wanted It for a Home Railway Van On Drums: Fine At Police Court, £3

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 5

Alleged to have erected a railway van on a platform of drums at Eastgrove, a Newtown labourer was fined £3 in Goulburn Court this week. Samuel Burgess, labourer, of…

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Police to Join T. & L. Council

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY: By 22 votes to 21 N.S.W. Police decided to join the, Trades and Labour Council…

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POLICE & T. & L.C. Threats To Resign

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY: Members of the Police Association are threatening to resign over the Association's decision…

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Magistrate Dismisses Police Case Hovell's Creek Landowner Before Court

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 4

T. J. O'Connor, landowner, of Hovell's Creek, came before the Cowra police Court recently, charged with moving stock…

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U. S. Newsman Is Charged With Espionage Russia Discovers A New Plot

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 5

NEW YORK, Thus,: The National Broadcasting Company in a statement today on the Soviet expulsion of its Moscow correspondent, Robert Magidoff, says: "Magidoff has been employed by…

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"Keep My Name Out of the Paper" All Court Cases Have To Be Published

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 2

At regular intervals, the editor and reporting staff of this paper are approached by people who have come before the Boorowa Court, with…

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Alleged Assault Outcome Of Affray On Railway Carriage

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 April 1948 · page 3

Alleged to have assaulted a military provost in a railway carriage near Wingello last night two young men were remanded until May 3, in the Goulburn Court to-day. Defendants also face charges…

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Contempt of Court J. L. Lewis Again Guilty

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 April 1948 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Monday: The United Mineworkers' President, John L. Lewis, was to-day found guilty of criminal and civil…

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Beer Strike And Crime U.L.V.A. Argues With Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY: There is a great deal of conflicting opinion in Sydney on the effect of the beer strike on drunkenness and crime. Police at main city stations…

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Police Court

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 4

Before Mr. Hook. S.M., at the Crookwell Police Court yesterday morning William Melville Hunworth. a stranger…

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Close to Go to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 4

MELBOURNE: Robert Shaw Close, 44, author of "Love Me Sailor," was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and fined…

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Failed to Destroy Rabbits Warning By Magistrate

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 5

Many landowners found it more profitable to cultivate rabbits for sale and "pay a few fines" than rid their properties of the pest, said Mr. Hook, S.M., in Goulburn Court this week…

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Horse Guarded by Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 5

WAGGA: Boomanulla, equal favourite for today's Wagga Cup. was guarded by police throughout yesterday and last night,…

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Youth On Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 22 April 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE: Police alleged at an inquest at Leongatha that a youth admitted he shot a farmer and hid his body…

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Some Notes on Current Topics Rationing Electricity : Police : Menzies : Ward : Planning

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 22 April 1948 · page 2

Winter is fast approaching and with it difficult times for Sydney people. Owing to the refusal of certain employees of the County Council to abide by awards and to inferior and insufficient coal,…

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