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

Courts & crime, 1951

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Police Seek Owners of Bicycles

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 1 January 1951 · page 2

Goulburn police want to start the New Year with a "clean sheet," so are seeking the owners of more than 20 unclaimed…

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New Year Road Users Praised By The Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 January 1951 · page 1

Holiday motorists had exercised more care over New Year than they had done during holiday periods last year. Goulburn…

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Four Months' Imprisonment For Stealing

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 1

In Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday 51- year-old Leslie Alfred Walker pleaded for leniency on the grounds that he…

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Gaol A Bad Start For New Year, Says Thief

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 1

"I don't want to go to gaol. It would be a bad start for the New Year," said James Cantwell in Goulburn Court of Petty, Sessions yesterday when he pleaded guilty, to a stealing charge…

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Court House Party : Presentation

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 6

The staff of the Court House held their annual Christmas party on Friday. morning, December 22, before closing for…

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Police Think Youth Shot by Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 1

Police investigating the shooting of a youth near Goulburn on Saturday night believe he was shot by some person ignorant of the fact that he had inflicted the wound…

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Court Action Against Union Leader

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: A summons was served on Edward ward Roach, acting secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation, outside the Arbitration Court-to-day, directing him to show why he…

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Young Mother Collapses In Court Dock

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE: A 21-year-old mother. collapsed in the dock at the City Court to-day When charged with the…

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Clue to Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Monday: Police believe that the discovery in a bombed Westminster site of an oak plaque from the Coronation…

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Police Chief Gave Chase

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: The Chief of the Police Traffic Branch, Superintendent W. R. Lawrence, yesterday chased and arrested five…

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Details Of Southern Police Work

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 1

Southern Districts police reports for 1950 show that there were, 16 cases in which officers had been assaulted in the execution of their duty. This represented an increase…

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Army Mutineer At 18: Imprisoned On Stealing Charges

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 1

Orphaned at eight, stocky, curley-haired Hilton Thomas Green has lived with "every kind of person there is." In 1940, when he was just 15½ years old he joined the…

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Xmas Drinking Led to Goulburn Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 2

Christmas has been gone for more than a fortnight now, but It was because of the festive season that 32-year-old Walter Doolan yesterday appeared in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions…

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Confession Of Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tues.: A house painter has confessed to the "Brooklyn Torso" murder District Attorney, Miles…

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Soldiers, Police In Search

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: Police and soldiers are searching Frernch's Forest for a 66-year-old woman missing from a rest home for the…

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Challenge in Sydney Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: Mr. Simon Isaac, K.C., declared in the Arbitration Court to-day that he would challenge the jurisdiction of Mr. Justice Kirby to hear contempt of court charges against Edward Roach, assistant secretary of the Waterside Workers'…

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Poultry Man Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: Robert Stanley Wiles, 50, secretary of the Poultry Pty. Ltd., was remanded in Central Court to-day on a…

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Only Have Grant Made Available. Govt's. Assistance For Rest Park At Boorowa Court House

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 1

The Minister for Works and Local Government is only prepared to make available a grant of £75 towards…

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Theft of Towels

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 2

The Minister for Transport, in a letter replying to complaints regarding the condition of carriages on the South Coast…

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Gaol for Life

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: Ilse Koch "the Red Witch of Buchenwald," was sentenced to life imprisonment at Augsburg yesterday for…

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