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

Courts & crime, 1950

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Good Police Work Berrima Escapes Pinpointed

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 May 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: The arrest near Broken Hill this morning of the three Berrima escapees was a tribute to police who…

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Fines Follow Police Raid on Local Hotel

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 May 1950 · page 3

A police sergeant told Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions. yesterday that he had found 21 people drinking in the Exchange Hotel bar on a Sunday…

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Murder of Woman Husband Arrested

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 5

NEWCASTLE:: A wood machinist, 28, was charged with the murder of his attractive young wife whose…

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Prisoner Helped Constable Assault on Train Near Gunning

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 1

When Const. Leslie Charge, of Bin[?], was escorting a prisoner by train to Goulburn last Friday, he was assaulted by a man named…

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Allegations Against Security Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 5

Sensational allegations about the wartime conduct of the Australian Security Service under the Labour Government were made by Senator Armstrong, a former Labour Minister, in the Senate…

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Police Ball In Aid of Ambulance

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 2

CONSTABLE P. J. Meadth advises that the Yass Police Ball will definitely be held on Friday night, June 30, in the Memorial…

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Police Inquiry “Not the Happiest Occasion”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 2

BEFORE Judge Clancy of the Crown Employee Appeals Board, ex-Constable Claude Ward appealed against his…

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Police Work Leads to A.c.t. Arrests

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 June 1950 · page 4

Following intensive investigations by Goulburn and Canberra police, three men were last night arrested at Canberra and…

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Sold Wine to Policemen Murringo Woman Before the Court

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 June 1950 · page 3

A Murringo woman, Mary Ann Oaken, was fined £20 in the Young Police Court last week on a charge of selling…

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"Perfect Menaces," Says Magistrate

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 8

Men drunk on railway stations or in railways carriages were "perfect menaces," Mr. A. J. Paton, S.M., said in…

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Constable Had to Jump Highway Incident Has Court Sequel

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 2

A constable had had to jump clear to avoid being run over, when a motorist had disregarded his stop signals, the Prosecutor, Sgt. G. Crick, told Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…

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Men Get Two Years' Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 7 June 1950 · page 1

Judge Lamaro sentenced two men to two years' hard labour in Goulburn Court of…

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Court Claim Succeeds £48 Verdict

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 7 June 1950 · page 5

In Goulburn District Court to-day, Judge Lamaro ordered R. K. Jones to pay £48 damages to Medway Brothers, of…

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Three Arrests Follow Theft Of Car

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 12 June 1950 · page 5

A car stolen from Tarago during Saturday night was later found overturned at Lake Bathurst, about four miles from the…

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U.s. Supreme Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 June 1950 · page 1

Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was born in Vienna, Austria,…

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Police Free Two Men From Lorry After Hour's Work

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 June 1950 · page 1

Two injured men were trapped in the cabin of, an overturned semi-trailer near Goulburn for more than an hour last night. Almost 100 spectators were on the scene by the time of the men were freed. The accident occurred at 6.20…

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Trial Starts of Japanese Charged with Murder Statement By One Of Prisoners

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 5

LOS NEGROS, Tues. (A.A.P.-Reuter):?Five Japanese Army officers, including one who is charged with murder, said, in sworn statements to the War Crimes Court to-day that Lieut.-General Takama Nishimura ordered the massacre of 110 Australian and 35 Indian prisoners of war in Malaya in…

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Charge of Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 5

NEW YORK, Monday: A. Benedict Macri, 37, pleaded not guilty yesterday to the murder of William Luyre,…

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Court Trouble Over Stock Permits

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 3

Two men appeared in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on Charges relating to travelling stock permits. They were Alfred Southwell, who headed guilty to a charge…

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Shocking Story of Mass Murder Terrible Fate Of 110 A.I.F. Men

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 4

LOS NEGROS: A Japanese general in Malaya in 1942 ordered the execution of 110 Australian and between 35 and 40.Indian prisoners of war, the senior prosecutor, Mr. C. V…

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