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

Courts & crime, 1949

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Full Court Upholds R.s.l. Appeal

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 2 March 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: The State Full Court to-day upheld an appeal by the New South Wales branch of the Returned Soldiers'…

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Crawley Mystery Company Director Is Arrested By Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday: Following, on a charge of murder laid yesterday against John George Haigh, 39, company director, of Crawley, after inquiries into the alleged murder of Mrs. Olive Durand-Deacon, a…

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£20 Fine for Street Betting Local Man Charged At Boorowa Court

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 1

Before Mr. W. Finlay, S.M., at the Boorowa Court of Petty Sessions last Wednesday, Horace Leslie McDonald, a local, resident,…

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Woman Charged with Drunkenness at Boorowa Court Drinking Wine on Stock Reserve

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 8

Clara Eva Merritt (46), home , duties, was charged at Boorowa Court of Petty Sessions last Wednesday, before Mr. W. Finlay,…

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Police Believe It Was Suicide

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: Detectives are now satisfied that foul play was not associated with the death of Allen Ettles Larnach, 28, at St…

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Loss Of Stock Brings About Police "Blitz"

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 5

Frequent losses of livestock due to indiscriminate shooting in the vicinity of farm properties were responsible for the appearance of 14 defendants at the last sitting of the Robertson Court of Petty Sessions, on Friday, February 18…

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Police Say They Know Murderer In The Acid Bath Horror

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Friday: Scotland Yard detectives, after consultation with police scientists, last night decided that they know the murderer of Dr. Archibald Henderson, his wife, Rosalie, and the McSwan family of father, mother and son…

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More Landholders to Face Court Alleged Non-Destruction Of Rabbits

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 3

Fifteen more prosecutions for alleged failure to fully and continuously suppress and destroy rabbits were authorised by the…

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Ex-mayor Rebuked For Using Language In Court Plaintiff Non-Suited

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 2

JOHN J. CUSACK, COACH-BUILDER, 222 COMUR ST., AND AN EX-MAYOR OF YASS, WAS REBUKED…

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Princess in Court Why Children Err

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: Princess Margaret was mistaken by many children and their parents for a probation…

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Marulan Death Car On Wrong Side, Court Is Told

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 1

The driver of a motor car who was killed when his vehicle and a motor car collided near Marulan was travelling on the wrong side of the road at the time the Goulburn Coroner's Court was told on Saturday…

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Hotel Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 4

Between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Monday, a yellow leather bag containing clothes and shoes from the hallway of the…

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Sentenced To Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 8

SYDNEY: Clarence Henry French, timber cutter, 42, was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Clancy, yesterday; for the…

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Bulgarian Pastors Are Sentenced "Travesty Of Justice" Says Swiss Bishop

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday: The sentences imposed on the 15 Bulgarian Protestant Pastors in Sofia, ranging from five years, to life imprisonment, were a travesty of justice, Bishop Paul Barber, head of the Methodist Church in the Geneva area, said in Geneva today…

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Allegation in Court Landlord About Threat To Kill

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 4

A landlord said in Goulburn Court this week that his tenant had threatened to kill him if he put him out…

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Galong Landholder Fined £50 for Failure to Destroy Rabbits Four Adjourned Cases Finalised at Young Police Court S.m, to Inspect in Another Instance

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 4

ADJOURNED SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, FOR FURTHER INSPECTION OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES TO BE CARRIED OUT, AND DECISIONS AND/OR PENALTIES THE MADE, CHARGES AGAINST FIVE DISTRICT PROPERTY HOLDERS OF ALLEGED…

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Yugoslav Fined for Assault in Hotel Bar

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 March 1949 · page 1

For assaulting two barmaids in the Royal Hotel, a Yugoslav immigrant was fined a tots of £l9, and ordered to pay 17/- costs in Goulburn Court yesterday…

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Communists Demonstrate Throughout Italy Police And Troops Figure In All Day Battles

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Friday: Police and troops battled all day yesterday in many parts of Italy to control Communist demonstrations against Italy's participation in North Atlantic Defence Pact. One man was killed in a riot…

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Big Demonstration In London Communists Are Charged By Mounted Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 March 1949 · page 4

LONDON, Monday: Mounted police charged a crowd of Communist supporters last night during demonstrations against the march of Sir Oswald Mosley's Union Movement…

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12 Years' Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 March 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: Eugene John Cleary, 44, was to-day sentenced to 12 years' penal servitude for manslaughter. Cleary last week was found…

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