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

Courts & crime, 1951

400 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 11 of 20

£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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Police Ball To-morrow Night

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 2

Its “P” Day at Yass to-morrow when the annual Police Ball will be held in the Memorial Hall at night. Proceeds are in aid of Yass…

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Risky Painting Job At Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 4

Working on a 40-ft extension ladder. local painters are re-coating the interior of the dome at Goulburn Court House. The ladder, which has been extended to its full limit, does…

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Theft From Car

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 1

Goods valued at £5 were stolen from a parked car in Auburn Street yesterday afternoon. The stolen goods were the…

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Millionaire Goes To Gaol In U.S.

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 5

NEW YORK: Millionaire Communist sympathiser, Frederick Vanderbilt Field, has been sentenced to 90 days' imprisonment…

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Prisoner Struggled With Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 1

One of the two prisoners, who yesterday escaped from Goulburn Training Centre under a truck-load of wood, struggled with police before he was recaptured outside Belmore Park…

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Persian Rejection Of Court Ruling

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 5

LONDON: Both the Persian Cabinet and its Oil Take-over Commission have rejected the ruling of the International Court at The Hague yesterday, upholding Britain's plea for an interim injunction to restrain Persia from taking any action to aggravate the Anglo-Iranian oil crisis…

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Court Award Of £10,000

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE: The owners and crew of the tug, Foremost were, awarded £10,000 by Mr. Justice Dixon in the…

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International Court Denounced By Persians

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 5

TEHERAN, Monday: Two thousand Persians shouted anti-British slogans outside Parliament House yesterday, while the Government considered withdrawing Persia's recognition of the International Court. Demonstraters abused the…

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Green and Gold Decorations at Police Ball

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 2

A CHARMING decorative effect was produced by Mr. Wardie Rayner at the Police Ball in the Memorial Hall on Friday night…

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The Appeal Court In East Africa

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 5

Lord Jowitt, the British Lord Chancellor, recently inaugurated the new Supreme Court of Appeal for East Africa in a ceremony full of local colour. The Lord Chancellor administered the Judical path to the two Justices of appeal who have already been appointed, including the first President of the Court. Sir Barclay Nihill, formerly Chief Justice of Kenya. The new…

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Wife Lost Eye in Assault

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 5

CAMPBELLTOWN: In Campbelltown Court this morning, a woman who lost an eye because of her husband's assault said…

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Man Sent to Gaol for Four Months

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 4

A 45 year-old man, whose previcus offences included embezzlminent, stealing and bigamy, was yesterdly sentenced to foiur moitls' iniprisoniment after he had pleaded guiliy to a stealing…

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All Roads to Earl's Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: In the grip of fight fever, all roads of boxing fans will to-night lead to Earls Court arena where Dave Sands fights the American, Mel Brown, inl a curtain raiser to the…

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Zeigfeld Club Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 July 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: The police allege that prisoner charged in the Central Court with murder, had urged another man…

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Murder Charge in Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 July 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE: Stanley Henry Shaw, at Fitzroy, was arrested this morning and. charged with the murder of a woman more…

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Fifth Arrest in Lee Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: After a six weeks hunt, detectives early to-day arrested John Frederick ("Chow") Hayes, 39, at gunpoint and…

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Three Months' Gaol for Stealing

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 1

A 35-year-old man to-day was sentenced to three months' imprisonment after he had pleaded guilty in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions to a stealing charge. He is Edward Lawson…

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Alleged Assault

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 3

No evidence was offered in the John Morrison McKellar Wallace, of Wentworthville, v. George Demos, of Yass, alleged…

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Young Man Detained Sydney Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: Detectives this morning detained a young man in Pitt Street for questioning in connection with the murder of…

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