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

Courts & crime, 1950

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Police V Angle-parking Victorian Country Councils Fight Back

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 8

MELBOURNE: The law (regulations issued under a State Act) provides that vehicles must not be left standing "so…

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Arrests Follow Theft of Car

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 5

Two men were arrested in Orange yesterday and charged with stealing, a car in Goulburn. The car was stolen on…

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Firearms on Sunday Sydney Man And New Australian Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 1

A "Sydney shooter" was fined 30/ with 10/ costs in the Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for carrying firearms on Sunday, and a new Australian was fined 10/ costs for the…

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Collecting Money for Shave Pensioner Gets Two Months' Gaol For Begging

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 6

An invalid pensioner, who said he had been "collecting for a shave" was sentenced to two months' imprisonment by Mr. A. J. Paton, S.M., in the Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…

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Fruit Inspector in Court Evidence

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 2

Thomas N. Powell. Goulburn Agricultural Inspector, during a case in the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday in which a woman was charged with failing to treat codling month, asked Mr. A. J. Paton, S.M., to take into consideration, when…

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A.c.t. to Police Unregistered Race Meetings

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 26 January 1950 · page 3

The Press officer of the A.C.T. Jockey Club (Mr. R. Miller) said yesterday that any registered person—horse owner,…

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Father's Report To Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 2

A Goulburn man reported to police yesterday that his three-months-old baby had been shot in the eye with an air-gun…

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Riots in Hong Kong Cause Serious Concern Police Control Mob, But Royal Commandos Called In

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 3

HONG KONG (A.A.P.-Reuter), Tuesday: About 60 rioters were taken to hospital, and they and at least others were placed under arrest, after demonstrating tramwaymen attacked a small police squad outside the tramwaymen's headquarters last night. Most of the rioters admitted…

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£60 Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 5

Thieves broke into the Goulburn Electric Supply Company over the week-end and stole about £60 worth of goods…

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Doctor & Young Man Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: An elderly doctor and a young man were arrested and serious charges laid against them after a 21-year-old girl…

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Doctor Charged With Forgery

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 4

GRIFFITH: A well-known Griffith doctor, Solomon Goldberg, aged 48, appeared in court here on nine charges of forging…

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Sheep in Dock at Goulburn Court Exhibit "A" In Case Against Owner

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 1

For the first time in history a sheep was placed in the dock at Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday morning. It lay unprotesting as the machinery of the law clanked around it,…

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Barman Fined for Assault "Not Self Defence," Says Magistrate

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 1

Allegations that a Goulburn barman had struck a 22-year-old pensioner, knocking him to the ground and severely cutting his eye. were made during an assault case hearing in Goulburn Court yesterday…

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Large Scale Art Theft In Germany

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 5

KIEL, Friday: Police here last night questioned a 25-year-old German student about what is described as the most sensational art theft of the century…

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Hunt by Police in Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 5

MELBOURNE: In an intensive hunt for gunmen who wounded John Gilligan with a tommygun burst yesterday,…

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British Police Go on Films

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 5

For the first time, British criminal investigation headquarters at Scotland Yard nave helped make a full length [?]m…

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Melbourne Shooting Two Men Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 8

MELBOURNE: Two men were charged with wounding with intent to murder following the tommy-gun attack on a motorist…

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District Court Decision

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 1

Judge Berne to-day granted a Goulburn man 3 months in which to pay £31/6/- damages arising from the…

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Police on the Spot

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 5

BRISBANE: A cracksman blew a factory safe in a Brisbane suburb last night just as detectives entered the building…

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Gaol Escapees Take Car

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 5

MELBOURNE: Three prisoners who fought their way out of Ballarat Gaol on Saturday night are believed…

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