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

Courts & crime, 1950

305 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 12 of 16

Police Cycle in Collision

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 25 September 1950 · page 2

A police cycle driven by Constable Creagh, with Constable Hennessy as passenger in the sidecar was involved in a collision…

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Sheep Stealing

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 26 September 1950 · page 5

Police will patrol small country roads on the New South Wales-Victoria border in an attempt to stamp out sheep…

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More Cyclists In Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 26 September 1950 · page 1

Another blitz on cyclists riding without lights yielded £9/l0/ in fines at Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions…

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Japanese Sentenced to Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 October 1950 · page 3

LOS NEGROS, Monday (A.A.P.-Reuter); The War Crimes Court sentenced one Japanese to death by…

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Police Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 4

At the last Gunning Police Court. Inspector Arrowsmith. of the Department of Public Health, proceeded against C. Coroneos,…

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3 Girls Escaped From Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 4 October 1950 · page 5

MELBOURNE: Three girl prisoners escaped from the women's section of Pentridge Gaol yesterday afternoon by…

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Police Fears for Puckeridge

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 4 October 1950 · page 8

KATOOMBA: Police fear that the missing hiker, John Puckeridge, 16, of Sydney, is lying injured in the rugged Kadumba…

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Austrian Police Armed for Eventualities

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 4 October 1950 · page 5

VIENNA, Wed.: Austrian police will appear on the streets to-day armed with rifles and wearing steel helmets for the first time since 1938. This is part of the Austrlan…

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From Everywhere W. Wyalong Jewellery Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 5 October 1950 · page 4

Thieves smashed a plato-glass window in the jeweller's shop of Les Scott, Main Street, West Wyalong, last week-end, and…

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Alleged Attempted Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 October 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: A 67-year-old man last night assaulted his wife with an iron bar because, it is stated, he objected to her…

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Russia Is Charged with Inciting Disorder in Austria

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 October 1950 · page 5

VIENNA, Fri.: Protests alleging that the Soviet authorities were preventing the Austrian police from restoring law and order in the Communist-inspired demonstrations, have been sent…

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Terrible Trail of Murder by Koreds Bodies Of 25,000 Found

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 October 1950 · page 5

TOKYO, Fri. (A.A.P.-Reuter): The bodies of 25,000 South Korean men, women and children, murdered for being anti-Communist, have been found in South Korea in the wake of the routed North Korean invasion army. The American Associated Press says the total is officially estimated…

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£16 DAMAGE Boorowa Rly. Gates Man Sent to Gaol

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 October 1950 · page 4

John Denvy McVey, labourer, Carroll Street, Kogarah, at Yass Court of Petty Sessions before Mr. Wm. Finlay, S.M., last Court,…

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Alleged Theft of 130 Watches

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 October 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY: Sixty-one-year-old cleaner, Ernest Strout, was charged in the Central Court with having stolen 130 watches…

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"I Must Be Mad,"Man Tells Police Stole £50 At Week-end

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 October 1950 · page 4

Thin, gaunt-faced Ronald Allen George, 26. is alleged to have told police on Saturday: "I must be mad. I should be examined by a doctor from kenmore," when they questioned him in…

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Union Defies the Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 October 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: Members of the Storemen and Packers' Union at a Sydney punt works to-day defied an order of the Industrial…

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Tomato Plants and Grass in Court Novel Defence on Rabbit Charge

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 12 October 1950 · page 3

A grazier charged with failing to suppress rabbits produced in the Warialda court two paper parcels, one containing tomato…

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Witness Is a Perjuror Says S.m. in Harden Court

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 October 1950 · page 2

Untruthful witnesses were severely criticised by the Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. W. Finlay, in the Harden Court…

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Sheep Stealing Out West

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 1

Hundreds of sheep have been stolen in the Cowra district in the past 12 months without any indication of the identity of the…

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Committed For Trial Three Stealing Charges

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 1

At Yass Court of Petty Sessions last Thursday, before Mr. Wm. Finlay, S.M., John Bradley, alias Anderson,…

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