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

Courts & crime, 1949

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£2240 MISSING Police Disciplined

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: Several policemen have been penalised following an inquiry into the disappearance of £2240 from a safe at…

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Unique System At Goulburn Gaol Night Classes Taken By Local Teachers

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 4

An educational system, unique in the history of Australian prisons, was this week introduced at the Goulburn Reformatory by Comptroller General of Prisons, Mr. L. C. J. Nott. the system, which provides…

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Graziers Must Notify Police of Shearing Operations

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 4

Graziers in the Yass Police District should note that they are required to notify the officer-incharge of Police at Yass, of their…

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Petty Sessions Court (Before Mr. Wm. Finlay S.M last Thursday)

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 2

Charles Edward Day, labourer, fixed abode, was fined £10, in default twenty days imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of…

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Yass Pastroal Co. To Challenge Validity of War Service Land Settlement Acts in High Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 2

A YASS pastoral company late last Friday afternoon issued a High Court writ challenging the rights of the Federal and State -Governments to acquire land compulsorily for closer settlement…

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German Police Check Crime Wave

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 September 1949 · page 4

HAMBURG: The New German Police Force built up in the British Zone under the Control Commission's Public Safety Branch has made great strides in checking the Wave of crime which followed the Nazi collapse…

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Sentenced to Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 September 1949 · page 8

NEWCASTLE: Mr. Justice Dwyer sentenced to death [?] round guilty of having attended. to murder a six-years-old [?]…

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Outcome of Tragedy on Hume Highway Young Man Charged With Manslaughter

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 September 1949 · page 5

Charged with feloniously slaying three people, William Cook, 21, truck driver, stood his trial at the Goulburn Quarter Sessions to-day, before Judge Berne. Cook pleaded not guilty. The charge arose out of a…

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Three Years' Gaol for Sydney Man Accused's Long Plea To Judge For Leniency

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 September 1949 · page 1

A 32-year-old Redfern man who made a five minutes plea from the dock for leniency was yesterday sentenced to three years' hard labour by Judge Berne on a charge of having stolen £420 worth of sovereigns, half sovereigns and silver from a Rhyanna grazier…

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Potato Price Fixing High Court Action Delayed

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 21 September 1949 · page 3

The Tasmanian Potato Marketing Board has agreed to temporarily withhold its challenge to the validity of the N.S.W. price…

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Sound Recorder Used for First Time in Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 September 1949 · page 1

A sound recording machine was used in a Goulburn court for the first time yesterday when Judge Berne presided Over the Quarter Sessions. Commenting on the machine…

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Judge Berne Is Indignant with Ventilation of Goulburn Court House

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 September 1949 · page 4

A warning that he would refuse to sit at the next Goulburn Quarter Sessions, if improved ventilation was not available, as given this morning by Judge Berne…

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ARREST Two Men Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 22 September 1949 · page 1

Two men were arrested in Goulburn yesterday and urged with stealing property valued at 30 from a…

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On Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 22 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY: Rex Llewellyn Flanagan, 32, a cook, was remanded in Manly Court to-day. on a charge of having murdered…

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Sentenced

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 September 1949 · page 5

A Budapest court on Saturday sentenced Laslo Rajk, former Hungarian Foreign Minister, to death for spying…

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£120 Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 September 1949 · page 7

SYDNEY: Thieves broke into the Astor Theatre, Drummoyne, early last night and stole £120 from a safe. It was taken from…

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Landholders Warned By Magistrate

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 26 September 1949 · page 2

“The penalty gets steeper all the time. The maximum is £100.” This warning note was sounded by Mr. W. Finley, S.M., at the Young…

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Sound Recorder Used in Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 26 September 1949 · page 2

A sound recording machine was used in a-Goulburn court for the first time when Judge Berne presided at the-last-Quarter Sessions:…

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Stealing Charges Sequel To Bowral Theft In Goulburn Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 4

Two men who appeared before Mr. Paton, S.M., at the Goulburn Court yesterday were each sentenced to terms of imprisonment for stealing goods from bedrooms at the Royal Hotel, Bowral…

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"World Citizen" Davis Causes Police Concern

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 8

PARIS, Monday: Three supporters of "world citizen" Garry Davis took it in turn to squat at the gate of the…

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