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

Courts & crime, 1951

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To Combat Sheep Stealing

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: Ten detectives are doing a special course at East Sydney Technical College and will be later sent to the country…

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Murder in Malaya

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 4

SINGAPORE, Wednesday: Fourteen Chinese auxiliary police, escorting rubber trappers on the Tapah Estate,…

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Police Chief Takes Goulburn to Task "Are They Satisfied"? He Asks Meeting

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 4

"I am shocked to think that, after all we have done to try and save life and limb, we should come to a hall like this and find a handful of people," declared Police Traffic Superintendent W. R. Lawrence at the Town Hall last night, when he addressed a public meeting called for a police safety…

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Child Murder Wave

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 5

LONDON, Friday: The police charged a 21-year-old labourer with the murder of nine-year-old Cecily…

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Occasional Notes Inflation Is Theft: Wages And Prices

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 3

So the Prime Minister is reported to have said in winding up the discussion at the National Conference in Sydney. I agree with him. He also said, "If our motto were 'Thou shall not steal' then a…

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Police Search for Two Men

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 1

Goulburn police are continuing a search for two men who assaulted and robbed a 49-year-old man…

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What the Court Can and Cannot Do

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 13 August 1951 · page 1

The Commonwealth Arbitration Court has not the power to re-open the 40-hour week case on its…

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Crown Theatre Mirth, Murder And Romance

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 15 August 1951 · page 5

All aboard for mirth, murder and romance ! It's the screen's new screen team -- Marjorie Main and James…

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Police Search for Man

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 August 1951 · page 5

Police have found no trace of a man who allegedly attacked 18-year-old girl after a dance last Thursday…

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Film Used As Evidence in Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 16 August 1951 · page 3

CASINO: X-ray photographs showing shot-gun the charred remains of a teen-aged married couple will be filmed in court to-day…

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Court Acts In Wharfies' Strike

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 16 August 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: A compulsory conference will be held before Mr. Justice Kriby in an attempt to settle the whanf labourers' strike…

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Over-charged, Fined

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 1

Federal Meat Purveyors Pty. Ltd., was fined a total of £90 for selling 9137lb of mutton at a price greater than that fixed…

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Died On Tennis Court

Boorowa News · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 1

Death came with tragic suddeness to a Murringo native, Mr, Percy Charles English; he collapsed in the closing stages…

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Local Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 5

Police are investigating the theft of a wheel, tyre and tube from ,a house in Clinton Street. The wheel, tyre and tube,…

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Police Search

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 2

A New Australian who had been reperted missing from Wolongong Hospital was found wandering along the roadside…

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Murder Inc. Dramatic Scene At Meeting

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 5

The most dramatic and at the same time a dramatic conviction of Communism happened last night at the…

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No Police Action Alleged Attempted Strangulation at Gundaroo

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 2

A story was freely circulated in town today that an ex-Yass man had attempted to strangle his wife,…

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Two Months' Gaol For Assaulting Local Police Officer

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 22 August 1951 · page 1

As a result of an incident on the night of the Diggers' Ball, on August 10, William Pickup, 36, a stranger to Crookwell,…

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Railway Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 2

Police are investigating the theft of 10 railway sleepers from Goulburn loco depot The Department of Railways…

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Appeal To High Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE: The Commonwealth Government will appeal to the High Court against the magistrate's dismissal of Crimes…

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