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

Courts & crime, 1948

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Gun Battle in Italy Communists v Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 April 1948 · page 5

NAPLES, Thursday: Carabinieri and Communists fought a post-election gun battle at Lusciano, near Naples, in which one…

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Man Arrested on Stealing Charge

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 2

A man was arrested in Yass on Saturday night and charged with stealing. It is alleged that he stole a…

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Bail Refused at Wagga Court Another Accused Committed For Trial On Receiving Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 1

Police were certain that Goulburn motor lorry driver Thomas Leonard Munday, 32, would not voluntarily re-appear at court it granted ball declared the Police Prosecutor (Sgt. Lithgow) in Wagga Police Court last week…

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Yugoslav Murder Pathetic Scene

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 30 April 1948 · page 5

VIENNA, Fri. Mrs. Inga Burke, wife of Lieutenant John Edmund Burke whom a Yugoslav frontier guard…

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Baby Died Young Man Goes To Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 30 April 1948 · page 1

ADELAIDE: In the Supreme Court a 22-year-old man was sentenced to, goal for 12 years after a jury had found him…

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Yugoslav Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 May 1948 · page 5

VIENNA, Monday: A joint Anglo-Yugoslav inquiry into the shooting of the British lieutenant, John Edmond Burke, on April 25,…

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Parliament House Staff Members Before Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 May 1948 · page 1

Three Canberra men who claimed that they were members of Parliament House staff appeared at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday to face charges arising out of their conduct on the Cooma…

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Spy Was Ill Complaint In Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 May 1948 · page 3

MONTREAL, Monday:— Fred Rose, the former LaborProgressive member of Parliament serving a sentence…

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Cootamundra Woman on Murder Trial Hearing To Take Place In Goulburn Next Week

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 May 1948 · page 2

A Cootamundra woman, Mrs. Rita Marie Condron, will face trial at the Goulburn Supreme Court next Tuesday on a charge of having feloniously and maliciously murdered her husband, Robert Condron, railway guard. Robert Condron, 46, of Hovell Street, Cootamundra, died at the Temora District…

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Man Acquitted Verner St. Accident Has Court Sequel

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 May 1948 · page 1

A former Goulburn man who was the driver of a taxi cab whih knocked a cyclist to the roadway in Verner Street on January 6 was acquitted on a charge of negligent driving at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday…

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Local Cars Raided By Thieves Two Strangers Remanded on Stealing Charges

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 May 1948 · page 1

Keen observations an astute deductions by Sgt. McLennan, Officer-in-Charge of Crookwell Police, resulted in the complete recovery of property stolen from several cars…

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Jury Cancelled for Court in Goulburn Next

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 May 1948 · page 1

It was revealed to-day that Jurymen called for the Circuit Criminal Court at Goulburn next Tuesday had been…

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Local Man Appears at Wagga Court Committed For Trial On Stealing Charges

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 6 May 1948 · page 1

On charges of breaking and entering Wagga stores and stealing huge quantities of tobacco and other goods, Thomas Leonard Munday, 32, of 77 Coromandel Street, Goulburn, was committed for…

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Police Are Not Interested

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 May 1948 · page 5

BRISBANE: The police said today that an 18-year-old girl telephonist, who claimed to have been attacked by a man…

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Cootamundra Guard's Wife on Murder Charge Coroner's Finding In Temora Poisoning Case

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 May 1948 · page 7

The wife of Robert Slyvester Condron, 46, the railway guard who died in Temora Hospital on March 2, was charged on Friday…

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Gaol For Drunk Drivers ?

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 May 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE: The Victorian Government is trying to get through the House legislation providing a month's…

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Murder in West Station Overseer Found Shot

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 May 1948 · page 3

TRANGIE: Hugh Caughey, 25, was found murdered early to-day on Auburn Station one of the biggest in…

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Boy Charged With Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 5

WERRIS CREEK: A 16-year-old boy was charged at the Special Court to-day with having murdered Hugh Caughey, 26,…

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Remanded at Goulburn Police Allege Assault

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 4

In Goulburn Court to-day, a middle-aged man was remanded until May 24 on charges of inflicting actual bodily harm on a…

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Grazier Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY: Campbell Blockley Jaquet, 34, a grazier, was remanded at the Central Police Court to-day to August 16 on…

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