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

Courts & crime, 1951

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Crowded Court for Serious Charge 75-Year-Old Woman In Box

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 20 June 1951 · page 2

The gallery of the Goulburn Supreme Court was crowded with spectators yesterday for the hearing of a case in which Charles Geoffrey Martin is charged with raping a 75-year-old woman at Dalton on February 1…

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Police Claim Admission in Theft Case

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 21 June 1951 · page 1

A police witness said in Goulburn Quarter Sessions to-day that a man had admitted sending £1000 worth…

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Sentenced to Two Years' Hard Labour

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 21 June 1951 · page 1

Mr. Justice Claney in Goulburn Supreme Court Yesterday sentenced a 23-year-old man to two years hard labour after he had pleaded guilty to carnally knowing a girl under the age of 16…

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Police Want Axe

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 21 June 1951 · page 3

ANY PERSON finding an axe on the northern side of Yass Junction is asked to return it to the…

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Diamond Ring Theft Case Pleas Of Not Guilty : Hearing Adjourned

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 21 June 1951 · page 1

A Quarter Sessions hearing in which three Sydney persons have pleaded not guilty to a charge of having stolen diamond rings worth £1000 from a Goulburn jewellery store. was adjourned…

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£1000 Ring Theft Convictions Mother Of Five Gets 18 Months' Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 22 June 1951 · page 4

A 30-year-old mother of five children was one of three Sydney persons found guilty at yesterday's Goulburn Quarter Sessions of having stolen £1000 .worth of…

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Theft Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 22 June 1951 · page 4

A man, who appeared to-day on a charge of theft in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions, was remnded to next Mnday…

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Guilty of Assault with Intent to Rape: Six-Year Sentence For Dalton Man

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 22 June 1951 · page 1

After a three—day hearing before packed galleries, Charles Geoffrey Martin, 37-year-old Dalton grazier, was sentenced to six years penal servitude by Mr. Justice Clancy in Goulburn Supreme Court yesterday…

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Unusual Charge in Young Court Monteagle Man Kept Too Much Petrol

Boorowa News · Friday 22 June 1951 · page 5

A Monteagle man, Henry George Bowler, was fined in the Young Court last week on an unusual charge…

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£40 Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 25 June 1951 · page 8

Thieves broke into a tent near the Southern Electricity Supply sub-station on Friday, and stole property worth £40…

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Assault on Train

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 25 June 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: A young man who boarded a train at Lithgow early this morning molested a young girl and…

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£307 Theft at Cootamundra

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 25 June 1951 · page 4

Thieves broke into Cootamundra Country Club between Saturday night and 7.15 on Sunday morning, and escaped…

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Attempted Rape: Six Years’ Gaol

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 1

Charles Geoffrey Martin, grazier, of Dalton, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment with hard labour last Thursday for having assaulted a 75-year-old woman also of Dalton, with intent to rape her…

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Mr. D. C. Tilghman Applying to Arbitration Court for Reinstatement As Town Clerk

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 2

THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL has been notified that Mr. D. C. Tilghman will apply to the Industrial Arbitration Court for his reinstatement as Town Clerk of Yass…

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Healy Before the Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: A further adjournment of the Crimes Act charges against J. Healy, Communist Federal…

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Man Pleads Guilty to Four Charges Fined £50 In Crookwell Court

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 3

A Victorian man pleaded guilty to four charges--one of illegally using a Land Rover and on three separate charges of stealing. He was Ronald Grayson, 40, of Benalla, who was fined a total of £50, in…

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Land Resumption Was Invalid, Says Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 7

The Full Court held yesterday, in a reserved judgment, that a purported resumption of land by the…

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Police Say Truck Hit Fence, Light Pole

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 July 1951 · page 2

He was John Herbert Gunness, who was giving evidence at the inquest into the death of Arthur David Eedy, of Yass…

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Policeman Followed Footprints Two Miles To Check Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 3 July 1951 · page 1

Police Constable A. J. Lowe, of Marulan, last week followed footprints for two miles to find a man who had stolen a number of rabbit traps. He said this in Goulburn Court…

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£300 Theft In Sydney

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 4 July 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: Thieves smashed a plate-glass window and took £300 worth of pearls and art jewellery from a…

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