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

Courts & crime, 1950

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£5 Fine for Assault

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 February 1950 · page 1

Reginald Dudley Reid, 35, pleaded guilty before Mr. A. J. Paton, S.M., in the Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions…

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Local Builder in Court Three Charges

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 February 1950 · page 1

When an apprentice carpenter and joiner approached John Cody, of John Cody and Sons, builders, of Goulburn, on a matter of payment for public holidays, he had replied: "If you think you can get more money, my boy, try and get…

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Alleged Bribery Police Say There Is No Evidence

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 February 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: Police investigations have failed to find any evidence to substantiate allegations that a member of State Parliament was bribed. This was disclosed in a police…

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No Meat on Saturday Challenge In High Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 February 1950 · page 5

MELBOURN : Closing of butchers shops on Saturdays for five months of the year was challenged to-day in, the High…

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Murder In Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 5

MELBOURNE: Shooting from a car, gangsters fatally wounded one man and seriously injured another in the…

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Broke Into Gaol Released His Friend

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 5

WORCESTER Massachusetts, Sunday: An armed ex-convict forced his way into Worcester country gaol early…

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Magistrate's Decision On Good

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 4

After a week's adjournment. Mr. A. J. Paton. S.M., in the Goulburn Industrial Magistrate's Court yesterday overruled a…

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Helped by Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 1

The Governor of N.S.W., Lieutenant-General Northcott, was taken to Tumut this morning in a Goulburn…

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Coin Tossed in Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: A coin was tossed before Federal Conciliation Commissioner Donovan to decide subsistence allowance to…

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Derailment Delays Governor Trip Completed In Police Car

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 1

The State Governor, Lieutenant-General Northcott, was forced to travel to Tumut from Goulburn by Southern Police Superintendent Randall's car his morning, when all train traffic…

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Ten Transports Parked in Cooma Street Police Reply to Parking Protest Described as “All Hocus Pocus”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 3

WHEN A LETTER WAS READ AT THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL MEETING ON MONDAY NIGHT FROM THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR POLICE REGARDING COUNCIL’S PROTEST AGAINST PARKING LARGE TRANSPORTS IN COOMA…

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Sander Acquitted on Charge of Murder Crowd In Court Cheers Verdict

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 5

MANCHESTER (New Hampshire), Thursday: Dr. Hermann Sander has been acquitted of killing his cancer patient, Mrs. Annie Borroto, after a 14-day trial, which the press labelled as the "mercy killing case."…

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Airliner Murder Guay Sentenced By Judge To Be Hanged

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 March 1950 · page 5

QUEBEC, Tuesday: Thirty - two - year - old jewellery salesman J. Albert Guay will hang for the murder of his wife, killed with 22 other people when an airliner blew up, crashed and burned…

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Dugan and Mears in Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY: The heaviest police guard on record was flung around Central Police Court when Darcy Dugan…

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Language Problem in Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 20 March 1950 · page 1

A Slovak said in Maitland court that he could speak five foreign languages - German, Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Pelish—whilst he could speak some French and some English…

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Theft From Truck

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 21 March 1950 · page 5

Mr. Peter Woods, Jacqua Creek via Bungonia, reported to Goulburn, Police yesterday that a suitcase containing £20…

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Murder On Train Body Thrown From Window

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 5

BRISBANE: A. 40-year-old stockman was murdered and his body thrown off a train, between Alpha and…

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Communists Call Strikes in Italy Clashes With Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 5

ROME, Thursday: One man was killed and approximately 400 were injured, yesterday in Italy's Communist-called 12-hour general strike, which the Government spokesman described as…

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Theft in Fire Station

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 27 March 1950 · page 3

A thief broke into Goulburn Fire Station on Friday night and stole 30/- A window of the washroom at…

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Committed for Trial Alleged Theft Of Car

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 March 1950 · page 1

A man who ran out of petrol on the Hume Highway near Carrick took unusual measures to procure some more,…

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