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

Courts & crime, 1949

410 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 13 of 21

Gaol for Begging

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 2

A man who received £500 reward for finding £2000 worth of diamonds in a culvert in N.S.W. (near Guudagai) in 1946 was, at…

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Magistrate to Roof in Rain Defendant's Solicitor Praises Fairness

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 4

Stipendiary Magistrate W. Finlay whose circuit includes Boorowa, does not attach too much importance to dignity…

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Triple Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 5

Police found the bodies of a woman and her two children, with their heads almost severed, on a bed in a house in…

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Magistrate Climbed to Roof in Rain

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 1

Stipendiary Magistrate W. Finlay, whose circuit includes Yass, does not attach too much importance to dignity when it is a…

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Dangerous Lights Threat Of Drive By Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 7

SYDNEY: A campaign will start soon to find out faults in motor car headlamps and tail lights…

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Woman Charged with Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: The 20-year-old, mother of a daughter, aged seven, and a son, aged 18 month, was…

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Bega Theft Leads To Imprisonment

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 1

Having been convicted on a stealing charge in Bega on August 4, Patrick Joseph Purcell, aged 32, appeared before…

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Churches Charged With Anti-Strike Measures

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 5

PRAGUE, Wednesday: Australian churches and religious societies spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on anti-strike and anti-Communist propaganda during the Australian miners' strike. This allegation was made…

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Doctor Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: Charged with infamous conduct in a professional respect. Dr. Herbert Geroge Burnett Bruce, of Kirribilli,…

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Money Paid To Court Leaders Appeal For Release

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 5

SDNEY: Representatives of the Ironworkers, Waterside Workers and Miners' Federation…

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Police Return

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 1

Southern and Riverina district police arrived back from the western coalfields yesterday afternoon…

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Court Proceedings Recorded

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 5

YOUNG: Legal history was created at Young Quarter Sessions when the proceedings were recorded by an Australian…

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Escaped From Gaol Three Break Free In Victoria

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 22 August 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE: Three criminals broke out of the Ararat Gaol early this morning. They were William…

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Six Months' Goal For Stealing

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 1

Martin O'Connell, aged 43, of no fixed address, was sentenced to a total of six months' imprisonment, at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday, on two charges of theft. O'Connell was charged with…

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Assault on Stepmother Nineteen-Year-Old Fined £10 Ann Bound Over

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 1

An ex-Gosford Reformatory schoolboy, Bercher Apps, narrowly escaped being sent to prison at Goulburn Police Court yesterday for assaulting his stepmother. Apps was alleged to have tried…

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Captain's Flat Dispute Arbitration Court Ruling

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission to-day ruled that the Western…

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Contempt of Court Eight Leaders' Applications

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: The Chief Judge of the Federal Arbitration court, Mr. Justice Kelly, said to-day it would have…

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Gold Coast Mounted Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 5

The Governor's Escort of the Gold Coast Mounted Police, she have been attending funcions in London in connection with Colonial Month, recently paraded in their full dress at Erse Guards Parade, London. This picture shows one of the…

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Verdict for Plaintiff District Court Claim For Money Lent

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 4

A Murringo resident had a "walk-over" in the Young District Court on Wednesday in an action against a…

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Three Months for Stealing

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 29 August 1949 · page 1

Edward Berryman, labourer, was charged at Yass Court of Petty Sessions last week before Mr. Wm. Finlay, S.M., with…

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