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

Courts & crime, 1949

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Dockers Go To High Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 25 July 1949 · page 7

SYDNEY: Counsel for the British Medical Association made application to the High Court for leave to challenge the validity of…

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Prisoners Break Gaol Two Still At Large

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 26 July 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE: Two convicts who escaped from Beechworth Reformatory Prison yesterday were still at large to-day. Fifty…

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Repairs To Police Block

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 26 July 1949 · page 5

The police quarters and offices in the Superintendent's block, Sloane Street, are undergoing extensive renovations. The…

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Southern Police Go to the Coalfields

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 26 July 1949 · page 3

Twenty members of the Southern District Police Force, including six from Goulburn, left yesterday to undertake special work on the western coalfields…

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Bound Over for 12 MONTHS Young Man Pleads Guilty To Stealing Charge

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 7

Ronald Bradbury, of North Crookwell, pleaded guilty before Mr. Paton, S.M., in the Crookwell Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday of last week to stealing motor parts belonging…

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Allegations Against Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY: Police Commissioner Scott has called for an immediate report on allegations that three policemen assaulted…

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Bungendore Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 2

At the Bungendore Police Court on Tuesday morning, before Mr. G. Paton, S.M., the Yarrowlumla Shire Council…

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Yass Police on Coalfields Duty

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 2

First Class Const. Ward and Const. Gay, of the Yass Police left this week by police utility for special duty on the coalfields…

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Amarnath Goes to Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 4

CALCUTTA, Thursday: Former Indian test cricket captain Lala Amarnath, has filed a damage suit for 7500 in Calcutta…

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Women's Brutality to Small Stepson Child Deliberately Beaten And Tortured "Shocking State of Affairs," Says Magistrate

The Burrowa News · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 2

"A shocking state of affairs," was how the magistrate described the almost incredible brutality of a…

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Australian Presented at Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 2

Australian girl, Una Pidgeon, is presented at Court. See the amusing situations which lead to this in “Fresh Fields,” the Yass…

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Two Court Days Each Month

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 1

Commencing this month, Court will be held at Yass on two days each month. This arrangement is due to the increase in court…

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Fined £5 for Local Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 August 1949 · page 1

For stealing one radiators core, valued at £4/10/-, Leonard Raymond Brouggy, of Sydney was fined £5, by Mr. Lake, C.P.S., in the Goulburn Police Court this morning…

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Democracy in Korean Pierced Ear-Drums, Broken Ribs And Gaol Sentences

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 August 1949 · page 2

SEOUL: Pierced eardrums, broken ribs and gaol sentences,, symptomatic of the forty-year-long Japanese occupation of Korea, are reported to be coming back again…

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Clashes In Sydney Police Make Arrests

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 August 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: Police made several arrests in Sydney to-day after "serious' clashes with wharf labourers who had…

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Rabbit Destruction Is Continuous Liability Magistrate's Warning to Gunning Landowners

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 4 August 1949 · page 3

WHEN a landowner complained at the Gunning Police Court on Tuesday that the Yass "P.P. Board, “had not honoured their undertaking to give him further notice,” the S.M. reminded defendant that he was…

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Alleged Intent To Assault

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 1

A man has been charged by the Goulburn Police with carrying an iron bar with intent to assault…

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Court Again

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 6

Dr. Evatt will lead the Commonwealth case against the B.M.A. in Sydney to-morrow…

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Three Vehicles And A Crash Sequel Heard In Local Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 6

A fine of £3/10/ was imposed on Claude Thomas Cartwright for negligent driving, when his case was…

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Intended To Hit Driver With Bar Man Appears Before Goulburn Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 2

A man who hired a local taxi cab, equipped himself with an iron bar with the intent of assaulting the driver, but instead, gave himself up, appeared before Mr. A. J. Paton, S.M., in the…

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