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

Courts & crime, 1951

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Police Superintendent Promoted

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

Superintendent Randall who has charge of the southern district (which includes Yass) for two and a half years, has been…

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German Police to Lay Charge Against Judge

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 5 April 1951 · page 3

FRANKFURT, Thurs.: West German police will charge the British Deputy Advocate General, Lord Russell, with a violation of traffic regulations, material damage and bodily injury arising out of Saturday night's incident at the Westphalian town of Vlothe…

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Burns to Go to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 April 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: The appeal of William Fardon Burns against his sentence of nine months' imprisonment for publishing seditious…

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Spies Sentenced to Death in America

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 April 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Thursday: Julius Rosenberg, 32, and his wife Ethel, 35, were to-day sentenced to death for atomic espionage…

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Sleeping in House Not Enough Magistrate Rules On Occupancy

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 April 1951 · page 1

The fact that a person was sleeping regularly in a house did not automatically mean that it was “occupied,” a Magistrate…

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Murder in Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 April 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE: Detectives are combing the underworld for a gunman who shot a Sydney criminal, "Big"…

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From Everywhere Investigating Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 April 1951 · page 2

Investigating Theft Police are investigating the theft of 18 lengths ot galvanised piping from a back_yard in…

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Ejectment Case Before Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 April 1951 · page 1

Because his company could not secure possession of land which it purchased in November last year, a building extension programme would be delayed, manager of Farmers and Graziers, Henry Charles Bladwell, stated in Goulburn…

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Police Sale

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 12 April 1951 · page 3

A sale of unclaimed articles will be held at Goulburn police action next Saturday morning at 10 o'clock…

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Traffic, Mix-up In Minor Collisions Police Constable Thrown Off Cycle

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 12 April 1951 · page 2

A SERIES of minor collisions in which a bus, cars, lorries, and a police motor cycle were involved, held up traffic oh the Hume…

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Sleeping in House Not Enough Magistrate Rules on Occupancy

Boorowa News · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 3

The fact that a person was sleeping regularly in a house did not automatically mean that it was "occupied."…

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Goulburn Soap-box Derby Opposed by Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 1

Police authorities are opposed to Goulburn Apex Club's Soap Box Derby because of the acci dent risk involved…

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From Everywhere Alleged Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 2

Norman Edwin Bradshaw. 25 caterer, of south Melbourne, was charged at the Melbourne City Watchhouse last night with the…

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£1500 Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 April 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: C.I.B. detectives are investigating the theft of £1500 in cash and cheques from a safe at Mynor's Pty. Ltd., Cr[?]morne…

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Melbourne Murder?

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 April 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE: Firemen are pumping millions of gallons, of water from a Footscray swamp in search…

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Police Critical

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 20 April 1951 · page 1

Delegates to the N.S.W. Police Association conference yesterday criticised the leniency shown by some Courts to…

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Police Duty On Anzac Day

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 20 April 1951 · page 3

Goulburn police will be on duly at the War Memorial early on Anzac Day to supervise Dawn Service traffic…

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Land Must Be Put to Better Use Harden C P. Man Wants Police Change

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 23 April 1951 · page 2

A motion seeking the review of the Country Party policy in regard to land settlement—will be sent down from the Harden…

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£500 A.c.t. Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 April 1951 · page 4

Thieves last night broke into a Canberra business office and made off with a safe containing £500…

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Police Arrest

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 April 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: Police to-day arrested and charged a man with stealing two valuable oil. paintings Worth over £1000, and…

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