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

Courts & crime, 1952

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Police Teach Road Safety to Migrant Children

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 July 1952 · page 4

Migrant children at Somers Centre, Victoria, showed keen interest in lessons on road safety when the lecture squad of the traffic branch of the Victorian Police Force paid a visit to the centre recently. MEMBERS of the squad were…

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High Court Writ

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 July 1952 · page 1

A writ was issued in the High Court yesterday challenging the validity of the N.S.W. Transport…

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Two Arrests On Goulburn Theft £700 Worth of Copper Stolen

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 July 1952 · page 1

Redfern police have arrested two men and charged them with the theft of £700 worth of copper tubing from Goulburn Loco. at the week-end…

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Woman Walks Six Miles For Court Case

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 July 1952 · page 2

A 47-year-old woman told Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday afternoon that she had walked six miles from Boxer's Creek to give evidence…

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Crookwell Man Charged with Murder Sequel to City Taxi Driver's Death

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 9 July 1952 · page 3

A Crookwell man, Ewan Cedric Ireland, was arrested in Sydney by detectives investigating the murder of taxi driver, William Corbet, last Thursday evening and was charged…

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Old Faces At Monday Morning Court

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 9 July 1952 · page 2

Those regular guests of Her Majesty, Otto Hahn, of Binda, and, Andrew Anderson of Wheeo, again…

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Police Inquiries On Dead Man

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 10 July 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: C.I.B. detectives investigating the death of a man. at Appin, 30 miles south of Sydney, last night, have so far not…

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Police Allegation Against Driver Goulburn Inquest on Road Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 10 July 1952 · page 1

A car driver had admitted drinking between 10 and 12 glasses of beer prior to being involved in a fatal accident, it was alleged in Goulburn Coroner's Court to-day…

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Floral Tributes Late Mr. F. J. a’Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 10 July 1952 · page 2

Floral tributes sent to the funeral of the late Mr- F. J. a’Court which took place to Goulburn cemetery, following a service at…

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Ghoulds Raid Orange Graveyard Vault Police Investigate Jewel Stealing Theory

Boorowa News · Friday 11 July 1952 · page 5

Vandals have broken into the most historic vault in the Orange cemetery and extensively interfered with some…

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Six Police In Union Team

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 July 1952 · page 8

Goulburn Rugby Union team will play a team from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, to-morrow…

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70-Year-old Given Shelter by Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 July 1952 · page 7

A police constable on Wednesday night arrested a 70-year-old man because he would have died in the cold had he not been taken indoors. Constable L. G. Tilley told…

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Police Raid Harden House Dice Game Alleged

Boorowa News · Friday 11 July 1952 · page 5

Police raided a house in Clark Street, Harden, early last Thursday morning where it is alleged, a "dice game"…

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Family of Three Burnt Out: Police Appeal

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 1

Goulburn police to-day appealed for clothing for three fire victims whose shack on 'Governor's Hill was burnt out on Saturday. The fire destroyed the shack on Saturday morning while the…

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One Third of Paper Supply Used for Murder Stories for Children

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 3

Eight hundred million books were printed in America in 1948; of these, seven hundred million were “comics,” reports “Education,” the official journal of the Teachers’ Federation of N.S.W…

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Two on Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 3

Cloreen Eunice Denison, 21 and Jack Bell, 28, of no fixed address, were charged at Darlinghurst last night with having…

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Murder Intrigue At Odeon

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 5

The events following the murder of a girl with a number of different character traits make stirring entertainment in J. Arthur…

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Happy Sequel to Court Case

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 3

A court ease. reported in Friday's "Evening Post" had a happy ending yesterday, when a vagrancy…

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Numbers On Stolen Car Altered Police Allegation

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 1

Police alleged in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday that the chassis, engine and serial numbers of a stolen car had been changed. They produced plasticine and…

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Killara Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 July 1952 · page 3

At all inquest in Sydney yesterday it was found that Mrs. Leopoldine. Hacker, 42, was murdered at here Killara home on…

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