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

Courts & crime, 1949

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Mystery Murder in Paris

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 November 1949 · page 5

PARIS, Wednesday: Police allege that robbery was the motive for the slaying of Australianborn Edward de Muralt, 40; in Paris yesterday. Police Chief Lucien Pinault…

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New British Cars At Earls Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 November 1949 · page 4

This picture shows the world-famous 8 h.p. Morris Minor Saloon exhibited at the recent Earls Court show in London. With an airflow" saloon body, this little car has a 918 cc side value engine of four cylinders which develops 27½ h.p. at 4,400 r.p.m…

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A Year in Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 5

ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Wednesday: Hugh. Gravitt, taxi driver, who ran down and killed Margaret Mitchell,…

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Youth Escapes From Custody Recaptured By Police Seven Hours Later

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 1

A 19-year-old youth, who was serving an 18 months' sentence for stealing, and who escaped from the District Hospital early this morning, was recaptured seven hours later…

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Peasants and Police Clashes In Italy

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 November 1949 · page 5

ROME, Monday: Serious clashes between Italian police and peasants agitating for land have broken out in Southern…

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Serious Charge Migrant In Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 November 1949 · page 5

Alexander Hollowatschow, a Crech., appeared at the Goulburn Police Court this morning on a charge of having…

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FINED £10 Assaulted Sergt. Girl Friend Called Police

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 21 November 1949 · page 4

A fine of £7, in default fourteen days hard, labour, was imposed on Arnold John Bunt, by Mr. Wm. Finlay, S.M., at the Yass…

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Another Service for Berrima Gaol Now Functioning As A Training Centre

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 November 1949 · page 7

Berrima Goal hears a sordid history. It has never lacked publicity, and once again public attention has been focussed on the historic old settlement. As a relic of the penal settlement days in the colony it has lost much of its…

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Boy Of 12 Is Not Guilty Of Murder, Says Jury

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 November 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: George Edward Crick, aged 12, yesterday walked down the granite. steps of the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court of England, acquitted of the murder of Stanley Victor Graves, aged four. Crick had made history by…

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Court Censures Owners Of Cruise Ship Noronic

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 November 1949 · page 5

OTTAWA, Monday: Justice R. Kellock, of the Canadian Supreme Court, yesterday censured the owners and master of the ill-fated cruise ship Noronic for their failure to provide proper means of detecting and fighting fires while in dock…

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Contemptible Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 1

Claire Woodhouse who plays the part of Janet in "High Jinks" so effectively, left her bicycle in the entrance to the…

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Yass Pastoral Co. Claims in High Court Soldier Settlement Act Invalid

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 2

A YASS Pastoral Company yesterday challenged in the High Court the power of die Commonwealth and State Governments to resume the property, Jeir Estate, under the War Service Land Settlement Agreement Act…

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Sentenced to Death Man Found Guilty Of Double Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Friday: Daniel Raven, 23, was yesterday sentenced to death by hanging after the jury at the Old Bailey had found him guilty of the murder of his father-in-law and…

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An Inquest Berrima Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 3

Twenty-three witnesses will give evidence before the District Coroner, Mr. W. J. McDonald, into the circumstances…

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Man Remanded on Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 November 1949 · page 1

Twenty-one year old Stanley David Kennedy, of no fixed place of abode, was remanded to reappear on…

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Two Men Charged With Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 29 November 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: Two men accused of having beaten and kicked to death a 78-year-old pensioner made…

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Arrest at Station Three Charges Of Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 5

Arrested when he stepped off the train at Goulburn last night, Frederick William John Brennan, aged 28, labourer, of…

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Guilty of Murder Plea Accepted

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: Legal history was made in the Central Criminal Court to-day, when the Crown accepted the plea…

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Court Finds in Landlord's Favour After Defence Collapses

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 6

The defence in the tenancy case heard before Mr. Smith, S.M., in the Court of Petty Sessions, Crookwell, yesterday, week, collapsed suddenly when the magistrate ruled that he…

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Missing Patient Found by Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 December 1949 · page 1

A 34-year-old woman patient who escaped from Kenmore Hospital early on Tuesday morning was apprenended…

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