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

Courts & crime, 1951

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Bold Escape From Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE: Police are searching for a prisoner, Victor Franz, who used a rope ladder to escape from Pent…

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Murder At Casino?

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: Police believe that a young couple, whose charred bodies were found in a…

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Another Murder in M. East

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 5

AMMAN (Jordan), Tuesday: Gunmen shot and killed Riad Bey el Sokh former Lebanon Premier, yesterday as he was…

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Two Prisoners to Serve Extra Time Penalty For Escape From Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 1

Two 20-year-old prisoners, who escape from Goulburn Training Centre on July 5, yesterday appeared in Goulburn Court of Petty Session on charges of escaping from lawful custody…

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18 Fines Bring Total Of £51 In Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 1

In Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, 18 people were fined a total of £51 for traffic offences. Four appeared and pleaded guilty and the remaining cases…

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Migrants Charged With Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 5

Two Yugoslav migrants hav been detained for questioning about the murder of a man and woman at Kandos,…

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Police Essay Competition For Children

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 5

The New South Wales Police Department has decided to conduct a children's essay competition. Notices of the competition…

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Migrant Charged With Double Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 3

KANDOS: Police yesterday charged slav migrant, with the double murder last Monday night. Later Mr. K. M. Dash, S.M.,…

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Stealing Charge

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 4

Francis Joseph Maher, barman, was remanded at Yass Police Court on Tuesday to the next Court" of Petty Sessions, on a…

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Healy to Go to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: The General Secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation, James Healy, was to-day…

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Suicide Story Calls Out Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 1

A 44-year-old New Australian was admitted to Goulburn District Hospital for observation last night, after he…

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Claim for Damages for Alleged Breach of Contract Boorowa Case Adjourned At Young Court

Boorowa News · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 1

For hearing in the Young District Court on Tuesday last was a claim by Mr. John Kelly, of "Newhaven,"…

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Assault on Child

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE: A man criminally assaulted a two year- old girl at her home in Fitzroy to-day…

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Gaol for Taking Cars

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 3

GOSFORD: Albert John Wilson. 18, of Great Buckingham Street, Redfern, was sentenced to 12 months' gaol on four…

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Mother On Charge Of Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 3

TOOWOOMBA: In the Police Court to-day, a mother was charged with the murder of her two young…

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Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 25 July 1951 · page 5

NEWCASTLE: Police last night charged Michael Joseph Mahar, 50, of Jesmond, with the murder of his brother,…

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Traffic Police Visit Planned for Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 25 July 1951 · page 1

A party of eight police lecturers will visit Goulburn early next month as part of State wide safety first campaign. Senior Constable M. McGill,…

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Stealing Charges Old Offender Sent To Gaol

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 26 July 1951 · page 9

TWO MEN with long criminal records were each sentenced at the Young Quarter Sessions to 18 months imprisonment on two…

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Mother Charged 2 Boys Murdered

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 5

BRISBANE: Mrs. Deletha Evangeline Lee 41, of Bridge Street, Toowoomba, got her two Loys, aged 8 and 10, to blindfold…

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A.C.T. Police And Promotions

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 8

Promotion in the A.C.T. Police Force has been restored to former conditions, of seniority and merit, following the gazettal…

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